Family Nurse Partnership

• Celebrating the First Family Nurse Partnership Professional Diploma Graduations

  18th June 2024 by family-nurse-partnership

  Guest Blog: Marion McPhillips, Principal Educator, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) We asked Marion McPhillips, Principal Educator, to reflect on the Professional Diploma in Family Nursing. This is the first academic award in the world for family nurse education. The first group of family nurses from Scotland and Northern Ireland have graduated with the diploma…

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• Welcoming our new FNP National Clinical Lead

  6th September 2023 by family-nurse-partnership

  We asked our newly appointed FNP National Clinical Lead, Amy Piper, to reflect on her journey into this new role.

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• Celebrating the 2023 Family Nurse Partnership Scotland Conference

  21st April 2023 by family-nurse-partnership

  On Thursday 16th March the Scottish Government hosted a conference for all Family Nurse Partnership staff at the Hilton Carlton in Edinburgh. The event was attended by over 160 people from a range of backgrounds, including family nurses, supervisors, data managers and some of our NES colleagues.

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• Experiences of a New Family Nurse

  24th November 2022 by family-nurse-partnership

  We asked Gail Chapple to share her journey of becoming a new family nurse within the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in Scotland. A family nurse’s role is to visit families in their homes and provide intensive tailored support to young first-time mothers aged 19 or under, and eligible 20–24-year-olds, from early pregnancy until the child reaches two.

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