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Nursing Blog

Nursing Blog

Stories about Nursing at Edinburgh straight from our staff and students

Month: July 2018

Students at Westminster Abbey with stained glass window for nurses

Florence Nightingale Foundation Students’ Day

Every year a Students’ Day is held in London by the Florence Nightingale Foundation to coincide with the Florence Nightingale Commemoration Service at Westminster Abbey. The Foundation invites universities with an undergraduate nursing degree programme to nominate two student nurses to attend. The day begins at St Thomas’ Hospital when students from across the UK have […]

16th July 2018 0

Students outside Chancellor's building

Celebrating the NHS at 70 with Nursing Students

Maggie Carson was at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh on Thursday 7 July 2018, in her role as Undergraduate Programme Director, to celebrate 70 years of the NHS with Morna, Sophie, India and Hannah, second year nursing students on surgical placement. When asked what celebrating the NHS at 70 meant to her, Sophie said “Nursing […]

16th July 2018 0

Tierney-group-six

Honorary degree for distinguished nurse academic

At the Graduation Ceremony on 3 July, Professor Tonks Fawcett presented Professor Alison J Tierney CBE for the degree of Doctor honoris causa. Alison was one of the UK’s early nurse graduates, completing the pioneering Integrated Degree/Nursing programme here at the University of Edinburgh, in 1971. At that time, Nursing was about to undergo a sea change […]

9th July 2018 0

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