This! I have been saying this for so long. So much bureaucracy and red tape and overwhelm of comms and emails. Meeting after meeting! No space to focus or creativity, to be really present!
A huge culture shift is required but where do we start #setboundaries #dontbeafraidtosayno

Have been intrigued / scared / excited by Brené Brown
series where she is exploring living beyond human scale. Would truly recommend. A sense of overwhelm is a recurring theme.
open.spotify.com/episode/7MIXir…

Our thoughts come fully accessorized with images, symbols, judgments, inferences, and actions. This gives our mental life vibrancy, but it can also leave us at the mercy of intrusive ideas—whether they’re true or not. Remember who is in charge.

👀 Need Saturday plans? Why not catch one of our current exhibitions, 'Who Cares'?

🕵️ Explore the emotions expected of nurses through time, from anger to reflection, sadness to compassion, fortitude to fear, & consider, how do emotions feature in care?

📍 RCN Library & Museum

Treat patients like humans, and they will feel 'seen'.

Obvious, and easy to do, but often overlooked.

I’m delighted and excited to say that I have been appointed to the role of Lead for Spiritual Staff Care and Wellbeing in NHS Fife Spiritual Care and will start formally next week.

It’s a valuable commitment from NHS Fife demonstrating intentional support and value for staff.

When you are having a sort out and it involves 3 of your fave things 🙌🏻
#history #nursing #Militarymedicine

The end of another busy week at 3 SCOTS. Adventurous Training, Machine Gun Cadres and new Communications Courses delivered with 5th SFAB. Investing in our people while making the most of our unique home in the Highlands 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade British Army in Scotland The SCOTS

Interested in working with military children. Fantastic charity has a vacancy in the West of Scotland 🙌🏻

Please share
This former PMRAFNS Nurse has no family.
Request for attendees. Any current or former PMRAFNS nurses in the Morecambe area able to attend? PMRAFNS
Please share 🙏🏻

While email is great for connecting and sharing, sometime managing emails can be a challenge, this blog offers some ideas which may be of interest cope-scotland.org/wellbeing-tips…

Planned retirement was main factor (39%), but nurses also cited:
- burnout/emotional exhaustion (26%)
- insufficient staffing (21%)

41% retired nurses had left for reasons other than planned retirement - including burnout and insufficient staffing jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

.Jason Leitch ‘It can be done…you need tools, pals and courage to innovate and improve’ as he closes Quality Forum #Quality2024

A beautifully written blog here by the fabulous Clare Cable. Wise words “we need to manage what we can…ourselves”. Thank you Clare all of your words resonated with me. 🙏🏻 #flourish

Building a 'minimum viable community of practice'. Communities of practice (CoP) can be such powerful spaces for change. They enable people to share knowledge & experience & build collective capability for change. But what is are the bare minimum aspects that should be in place…

Cpl Eddie Harrison PMRAFNS from Joint Hospital Group South East was awarded The Martin Cook Memorial Prize for his fantastic achievements. Guests at the PMRAFNS Symposium heard of his exemplary values and standards, academic achievements, fundraising and evident leadership 🏆
#PMRAFNS
#TeamJHG

🚨We are delighted to be offering this phenomenal opportunity to join our senior team as Chief Nurse/AHP for PDU. A diverse job for an exceptional candidate, please share NHS Forth Valley Frances Dodd Nicola Wood Dr David Watson apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

At its most powerful, courage is rarely loud. Mostly, it's a whisper: those moments every day when you do what matters. ⁣

What does courage look like for you today? I’d love to hear from you.

#SFirstAidAwards with my daughter who is a finalist for Young First Aider