Jo

Specialist Practitioner District Nurse within NHS Lothian. All views my own 💙

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Just had a lovely gentleman stop me in the street to thank me (the #NHS ) for all our hard work. It brings everything right back into perspective doesn’t it?The NHS CAN be great, let’s hope it only gets better from here! #grateful

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

@laurenannenich1 @TheQNI Exactly that! X

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Staff hard at work, creating new ACP boxes for our palliative patients. Much neater and easier to find needed supplies! Great work team 💪🏻

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Spent a lovely morning at the Dementia Workshop at HPC today. Learning about some of the groups available in our community to support those living with Dementia. #supportingpatients

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Our second new ‘at a glance’ this month. Aim is to help us find relevant information in a timely manner and reduce the burden of new patient assessments, by sharing the load across the team! Let see how we get on 👏🏻

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

We had our lovely DN ANP in today to show us her new presentation. She is looking to role this out to our DN teams soon. The importance of recognising AF in our patients and the effects this can have. Good luck Jenny, it was great! ⭐️

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

@LeanneJGrant @WestLothianHSCP @LeighAl45838620 Thanks Leanne, it was a great morale boost for the team 🥰

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Happy International Nurses Week!! 🩺💊. Celebrating a day early with a big team lunch including our lovely bladder and bowel nurses. Well deserved for everyones hard work, efforts and constantly evolving through challenging times. @LeanneJGrant @WestLothianHSCP

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

The mood for our team today, chosen by our lovely bank nurse Carrie! ☀️

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

We’ve also transformed our ‘at a glance’ board to make important information about our patients receiving palliative care, more accessible and less time consuming. Would you add anything else? 💡

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

This week the team are focussing on how to improve our ways of working, ahead of our team meeting next month. The aim is to improve productivity, patient documentation and keep staff engaged. Let’s see what they come up with! 🙌🏼

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Come and join us! Plenty room for more and all welcome! 👩‍⚕️🩺

District Nurse Student - NHS Scotland https://t.co/vcN9n7LDvb

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

This ⬇️⬇️ not to forget the autonomy, better working hours and great team work 💪🏻

[Becky Ford @fordbecky290815]

My biggest “ick” in nursing is when people say “you’ll deskill in the community” at no point in my 11 years of working in the community have I felt deskilled. Being a community nurse is a privilege, if your reading this and thinking of a change please consider community nursing

[NHS Lothian Tissue Viability Team @LothianTVN]

This is a great table to help you describe what type of exudate you are seeing when assessing your wound. Some types of exudate or an increase in exudate can indicate infection so remember to check your Scottish Ropper Ladder for guidance

[NHS Lothian Tissue Viability Team @LothianTVN]

Do you know what factors can delay healing? We have internal (Intrinsic) factors and external (Extrinsic) factors that can impact on healing and we need to optimise our patients to account for these, here are a few Intrinsic factors that may delay healing

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Our fabulous clinical lead! Raising awareness for our service. Well done Leigh 👏🏻

[NHS Lothian @NHS_Lothian]

✨This week's #StaffStories is shining a spotlight on our fabulous District Nurses!

Leigh Williams, Clinical Nurse Manager for Adults & Older People in West Lothian, tells us what a typical day looks like for the team 📹

Keep an eye out for more from Leanne later this week 👀

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

THIS!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

@almac1405 @WestLothianHSCP @LeanneJGrant @Lindapotts Absolutely! We sometimes forget how important it is to work alongside students, our future generations, and encourage them into our specialties!

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

Genuinely teared up a this. Such lovely feedback from a student nurse. How thoughtful to take the time to write this. So glad me and my team were able to be such a special part of their journey 💜 @WestLothianHSCP @LeanneJGrant @Lindapotts #thisiswhatnursingisallabout

[Jo @JoSSPDN]

@JulietMacArthur @LeanneJGrant @WestLothianHSCP @Lindapotts Thank you so much! 🥺