Nothing much to tell today really


I thought this would be a quiet day, a short blog, with little to update beyond a photo of my new raised beds at the allotment. However the blog appears to be actually read by some people. Who knew.

Raised Beds

I had expected to be contacted early next week by NHS Lothian to discuss where I might be of most use. But in the interim a former colleague, alerted at least in part by this blog has been in touch to ask if I would consider going back in some capacity to my old area of community nursing and health visiting. I have always been clear that I am happy go wherever NHS Lothian think I can be of most use in this time of imminent crisis, whether that is as a basic grade staff nurse in a clinical setting or back in role I have more experience of and with a less atrophied skill set. In the former I would require some good basic learning and shadowing opportunities to return to a ward setting. Less would be required in the latter if I am of use in a previously familiar capacity. I will wait and see. I continue to expect contact from NHS Lothian on Monday or Tuesday of this coming week.

Meanwhile the allotment will remain a glorious haven from the chaos elsewhere.



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