Summary
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.See the full content of this document
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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
Sue Fullerton, a pretty 21-year-old from Bellshill, has a nasty scar on her leg.
"I fell on some broken glass in a pub, " she says. "There had been a fight and the place was a mess, and I just wanted to get out of there. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, really. I had stitches at the time, and a while ago I had laser surgery to try to reduce the scarring, but th...See the full content of this document
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