Shona Cairns

Proud Cons Healthcare Scientist, epidemiologist and borderline crazy cat lady.

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

@Diane_Anders0n Congratulations Diane. It was lovely to see how much your family and colleagues think of you today

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

Slightly overwhelmed but totally delighted. So many examples of the amazing work of our HCS family shared at today’s event.

[Healthcare Science Scotland @ScottishHCS]

Congratulations to Shona Cairns.

Shona is our Healthcare Scientist of the Year

@catherinemross

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

Home in the sunshine ♥️

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@cardiochar @ahcsuk @cardiacjase @BartsHCS @AnnaMil05975648 Fantastic news Charlotte. Such a good feeling. Enjoy! 🥰

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

@cardiochar @ahcsuk Good luck Charlotte. I had my interview in December. Such a good feeling to be finished 😀 @ahcsuk

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

So the emails
you meant to write
remain unsent

So your report
that is due
is not finished

So the dishes
remain piled high
in your overflowing sink

So your to do list
remains mostly
undone

You have survived
another week
of the plague

And though
that is not enough
it is enough

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

@raseaton66 Prophetic name…

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

@invadingpirate @microlabdoc @raseaton66 @shepherdlesley7 @LawtonTri I completely agree. We are very fortunate in Scotland that local teams validate each of our hospital onset cases individually. If we only use linked data, we underestimate the burden. So important to recognise strengths and limitations of data and use to improve and support

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@SMHopkins Thank you Susan and Rob. I needed this... I took a day away from COVID to focus on the looming deadline for my Applied Epi clinical science portfolio. These words motivated a tired healthcare scientist :-)

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@lomondtrossachs Rowardennan also full and very difficult to get turned back.

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@R_Keel_esq @trafficscotland @ScotTranserv Moving southbound now

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@R_Keel_esq @trafficscotland @ScotTranserv Completely stopped north bound at the moment. The police are on the bridge above too.

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

ECDC HAI and Antimicrobial Prescribing PPS training today in Shetland @NHSNSS @ECDC_EU

[Jon Otter @jonotter]

Point prevalence of CPE carriage in a Manchester hospital is 11% Yep 11%. Not 1.1%. 11%. Can you tell I'm surprised? https://t.co/G6ANYZUcLm

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

Taking the ECDC HAI and Antimicrobial Point Prevalence Survey training to the Island boards @NHSNSS @ECDC_EU

[Shona Cairns @shonacc]

Third training session for Scottish National HAI and AMU PPS underway @NHSNSS @ECDC_EU

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Days after venturing abroad, we acquire genes that make the bacteria living inside us resistant to antibiotics https://t.co/T0nbb6cZLZ