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Histon Resident to Become a Queen’s Nurse

February 4, 2010 by wfr.editor  
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 Local practice nurse Janet Diplock, a Histon resident who works at Cottenham High Street Surgery, has recently been successful in her application to become a Queen’s Nurse (QN). This title is not a qualification or a reward but recognition of a continuing commitment to improve standards of care in the community and to learning and leadership within the nursing profession. Qualities that the assessors are looking for in a QN include delivery of high quality care to individuals, their families and carers and also being a role model for their peers and professional colleagues. The development of new services at Cottenham Surgery and involvement with teaching student and qualified nurses were all featured in Janet’s application.

Being a QN provides a link into a nursing organisation with a 120 year history of inspiring, involving and investing in nurses and the opportunity through a QN Forum to influence future policies and practice.

The Queens Nurse Institute is a charity that traces its origins to 1887 with the grant of £70,000 by Queen Victoria from the Women’s Jubilee Fund. A Royal Charter in 1889 named it ‘Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses’ and gave it the objectives of providing the ‘training, support, maintenance and supply’ of nurses for the sick poor, as well as establishing training homes, supervising centres, co-operating with other bodies and establishes Branches as necessary.

Janet will be attending an award ceremony in London in May 2010 to receive her QN Badge and Certificate.

For further information about Queen’s Nurses go to: http://www.qni.org.uk/queens-nurses/index.html

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