The title of this blog might suggest that King Louie, my impressive orange cat and self-proclaimed ruler of the household, has taken over my keyboard—but rest assured, he has not. “SWSCNAC” stands for the South West Social Care Nurses Advisory Council, of which I am proud to be a member. The Social Care Nurses Advisory…
Getting on with things?
In a rather anticlimactic way year 1 of studying for my MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice is over. There were no balloons, no confetti and no tah dah moments … just a quiet realisation that I am one third of the way through and getting my recent leadership module results … I passed ! Yay…
Light bulbs
A few weeks back I attended and presented (alongside my fabulous clinical supervisor) at the BNSSG ICS ACP conference, which to be honest is way too many acronyms in one sentence but suffice to say that it was a local advanced practice event. In some ways it felt like familiar territory, after all I have…
The prescribing problem
Advanced practice in adult social care brings so many challenges, as my clinical supervisor keeps saying “we are building the bus whilst being on it!” And she’s not wrong. The latest part of the bus we are having to build is non medical prescribing … and I wonder if this is akin to the wheels on…
Hello again …
Hello my name is Teresa Chinn and it’s been quite a while since I blogged! Things have been busy, things have changed … in fact the whole world changed for a bit …. and that, to be honest, was difficult … but…. hello again ! My name is Teresa Chinn and I think I may…
A Queen’s Nurse
Over the course of my career as a nurse I have had the privilege of meeting and working with a number of Queens Nurses and all of them have been the most amazing role models for nursing in the community, demonstrating compassion and championing high quality care and a person centred approach…. in short they…
Walk like a Nurse
I have always been conscious that I have a “nurses walk.” I am sure you know what I mean. It’s the type of walk that is twice as fast as all your non nurse friends and family, It’s a walk where your head is thinking about the next thing you need to do and it’s…
Squishing hierarchies
One of the things that I have always loved about nursing social media is that hierarchies are irrelevant. The way that a nursing student can contact a chief nursing officer, or a director of nursing can chat with a newly qualified nurse, or even a professor of nursing can engage with a person who is…
Looking ahead & making plans
This year marks the 10th anniversary year for WeNurses ….10 years … yes I know …wow ! Looking back and reflecting there have been many changes over those 10 years. Over the last two years in particular the pandemic has caused a rapid acceleration in the uptake and use of social media and this has…
Pain – believe, evidence, act, escalate!
How many times have you heard someone say “pain is what the patient says it is”? I have heard this a lot of late, so much so that I am beginning to question it’s credibility. It was in 1968, over 50 years ago, that McCaffrey defined pain as “it’s whatever the experiencing person says it…
