Uhi Nursing And Midwifery

On Saturday UHI Nursing and Midwifery Fiona Grist (2nd from right in the red coat) attended the Scottish Branch of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps Association – Corps Day Service at Ness Bank Church. This was followed by a wreath laying at Cavell Gardens and lunch at the Glen Mhor. It’s the 70th Anniversary this year of the Scottish Branch Association. Fiona served 18.5 yrs in the Army as a Nursing Officer, retiring as a Major. She enjoyed a very varied career in the military. The ethos of the association is ‘friendship’, quite apt in the current climate!

As part of their Dementia Enhanced Education to Promote Excellence programme, students in their second year from the Department of Nursing & Midwifery at University of the Highlands & Islands organise a fund raising event since 2019 during the Dementia Awareness week in June to support the work of Alzheimer Scotland locally. Caitriona Macdonald from our 2018 cohort completed the Inverness Half Marathon on Sunday, the 8th of March in 2 hours and 22 minutes and raised an amazi...ng £330.53 as part of her cohort’s fund raising initiative for #AlzheimerScotland this year.
This is what Caitriona had to say:
“On Sunday, 8th March 2020 I ran my first half marathon in 2 hours 22 minutes. I chose to fundraise for Alzheimer’s Scotland as they are a fantastic charity who believe nobody should face dementia alone. I have witnessed the devastating impact that dementia has not only on patients but their families. I am a second year Student Nurse in the Department of Nursing & Midwifery at University of the Highlands and Islands. We are fortunate to complete the DEEPE (Dementia Enhanced Education to Promote Excellence) programme as part of our degree. DEEPE is delivered in partnership with service users, carers, dementia link workers and dementia advisers from Alzheimer Scotland locally to ensure we are equipped with the most relevant, up to date evidence based practice, to enhance our competence in caring for individuals with dementia and their families.”
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As part of our celebrations for International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife our UHI midwifery students opened a midwifery art gallery today #midwives2020 #uhinursing #ThinkUHI #NHSWI #NHSHighland #NHSOrkney #NHS_Shetland #NHSGGC #NHSGrampian

Today for #UniMentalHealthDay we were lucky enough to have Mental Health nurse Terry Veitch come to talk to our students about his career, and we also had a wonderful lunchtime yoga session for staff and students. Feel the stretch! :)

We are celebrating #UniMentalHealthDay with events for staff and students at UHI Nursing and Midwifery - photos to follow! :) Really important to look after each other and all our students.

As part of #internationalyearofthenurseandmidwife202 0 University of the Highlands and Islands UHI Nursing and Midwifery were lucky enough to have Helen Eunson, Professional Lead Nurse - Mental Health for NHS Highland, in to inspire our third year #nursing students with a talk about her career in Nursing.

Part time job opportunity as a Student Association Assistant with Highlands and Islands Students' Association based at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness #ThinkUHI More details below 😀

Our next Open Day is this Thursday (20th Feb), starting with a presentation at 5.30pm at the Centre for Health Science, Inverness.

In conjunction with the Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP) we were delighted to host a study day last week for college students who are interested in pursuing nursing as a career. We had over fifty students attend the day from Moray College UHI, Inverness College UHI Care, Health and Wellbeing and North Highland College UHI. Students were able to access taster sessions for some of the clinical skills sessions that form part of the programme and all participants were presented with a certificate of completion at the end of the day.
We thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and hope to welcome them back as nursing students later in the year.

Absolutely delighted that our University of the Highlands and Islands UHI Nursing and Midwifery BSc Nursing programme was today approved by the NMC with no conditions and 4 commendations! We could not be happier or more proud of our amazing team across our two campuses, and of the array of clinical colleagues, PEFs/CHEFs, service users and carers, support groups, and our amazing students, without whom this would not have been possible! Thank you to everyone involved! :) #thinkuhi

Come along to our Open Evening tomorrow (Thursday 30th Jan at 5.30pm) at the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Centre for Health Science in Inverness to find out more about a career in adult or mental health nursing. More details here - https://www.uhi.ac.uk/…/studying-at-… /open-days/nursing.html #ThinkUHI.

Interested in a career in adult or mental health nursing? Come along to our next Open day at the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at the Centre for Health Science in Inverness this Saturday 11th January. This will start with a presentation at 11am. More details https://www.uhi.ac.uk/…/studying-at-… /open-days/nursing.html #ThinkUHI

At the University of the Highlands and Islands in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery students and staff are celebrating 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Throughout the year we will highlight contemporary practice with our postgraduate students who are developing in their careers with us, and the support nurses and midwives provide to our undergraduate student nurses and postgraduate midwives. Caring for people and one another. #nhshighland #nhswesternisles #nhsorkney #nhsshetland #nhsggc #thinkUHI https://www.who.int/…/year-of-the-nurse -and-the-midwife-2020

On the 7th January 2019 the Department of Nursing at UHI became the Department of Nursing and Midwifery. It’s our first birthday today 🎂🎉 and we are celebrating with a post festive period piece of fruit. Thanks to all students staff and NHS partners for being part of our Department. #ThinkUHI #NHSH #NHSWI #NHSO #NHSS #NHSG #NHSGGC #RCM #Scotland

Brilliant to see our @uhinursing students have fun at the end of semester party today. Good luck for the exam next week and enjoy your well deserved holidays!!

Students - don’t miss your opportunity to vote in the UK General Election on 12th December by making sure you are registered to vote by Tuesday 26th November. If you’re living away from home during term time you can request a postal vote. More info – https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.