Yes We Do Operations, but Please Don't Call Us Supernurses. . .Health We Spend a Day at the Operating Table with One of Scotland's First Nurse Practitioner Teams

Evening TimesJune 01, 2005

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ANN FOTHERINGHAM spent a day with Marion McAneny, one of the first nurses in Scotland trained to perform minor surgery. Based in the Canniesburn plastics and burns unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, she works closely with consultants and registrars and finds her role as a nurse practitioner fascinating, challenging and rewarding IThas been a busy day for Marion McAneny and her team in the plastics and burns unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Marion, one of Scotland's first nurses trained to carry out minor surgery, is about to meet her final patient of the day.

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Yes We Do Operations, but Please Don't Call Us Supernurses. . .Health We Spend a Day at the Operating Table with One of Scotland's First Nurse Practitioner Teams

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