Edinburgh is a wonderful city to study in, so as part of the last session with their programme director, students from the MSc ANP programme were sent out to explore.  The Royal Mile was the starting point for a ‘treasure hunt’ in the sunshine and students were able to explore some of the most historic […]

Having returned from 2 weeks annual leave I found an email in my inbox from Susanne Kean asking if I was available on Thursday 16th July to meet with her, Sheila Rodgers and a visitor from Denmark.  I had previously been informed that Janet Jensen (MHSc, RN), a PhD student from the University of Copenhagen […]

The European Academy of Nursing Sciences is in their 17th year of running nursing PhD student summer schools. Some time ago a conference was added to the programme to which other EANS members are invited, thus providing and facilitating networking opportunities across European countries as well as academics, researchers and students. This year’s conference was […]

The MSc students share experiences of a day out of Edinburgh- thank you  Vivian, Steven and Alan for writing for the blog.   July 04, the weather was not good in the morning, but the MSc ANP students were still excited to join a day trip around Edinburgh.   Sharon rented a van for the […]

Andrea Taylor, a community midwife and MSc Student within Nursing Studies, shares her experience on writing a reflective paper and putting it out ‘there’. Andrea’s paper is entitled ‘Person-centred care in practice’, and was published in the British Journal of Midwifery. I am a midwife and I have always thought of midwifery as having a fundamentally […]

Sharon Levy, Programme director for the MSc in Advanced Clinical Skills, shares his experience of being part of one of the filmed clinical scenarios. I must admit that I was nervous prior to the filming of a clinical scenario session, for our MSc in Advanced Clinical Skills. Aided by Ali – a well-known actor, researcher […]

Fiona Tevendale collaborated with Dorothy Armstrong to produce a paper which has just been published in the Nursing Times. Fiona is a Third year student in the Undergraduate Nursing Studies programme, and was willing to share a few notes about writing the article. ‘The article Dorothy and I wrote was about using patient stories in […]

An exciting opportunity presented itself when a group of us (students and staff) put a bid to get 8 pairs of Google Glasses to be used as a teaching tool in the clinical skills lab. The idea was to get a simulated patient to wear the Glass and capture the way a student nurse interacts with […]

It is so strange to be properly in touch with some parts of the Department of Nursing Studies, as all has been closed to us ‘European Pioneer Graduates’ (the phrase was coined by another European Pioneer Graduate’ quite recently, in an e-mail to me!) since November 1996, and the big gathering to celebrate the 40th […]

Throughout the Nursing Studies department, staff and students are learning together. One of the taught MSc Courses is Professional and Personal Development run by course director Dr Aisha Holloway. The class meet once a week for coffee before the lecture and has established friendships and knowledge exchange, a way to get different opinions about problem-solving and discuss with […]