Community nurses in Scotland have harnessed the power of storytelling to help them deal with the emotional demands of working during the coronavirus pandemic and have launched a new video to share their experiences.
When the pandemic first hit the UK more than a year ago, the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland funded a creative project to support community nurses in the country to manage the high levels of ongoing stress they were experiencing.
“The development of a resource to help nurses cope with psychological trauma in the workplace couldn’t have been timelier”
Karen Stout
Spearheaded by nursing lecturers at the Queen Margaret University, the SEEDS project saw eight community nurses attend a series of workshops which used a combination of storytelling and practice development exercises.