The Queen's Nursing Institute works with the public, nurses and decision-makers to make sure that good quality nursing is available at home for everyone when they need it.
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Why not enjoy a short visit or a long day out at a National Gardens Scheme garden and show your support for one of the QNI's major funders.
Visit our District Nursing 150 website, a celebration of the vibrant one hundred and fifty year history of District Nursing in the UK.
This website has been designed to ensure that users can experience all content on the site, regardless of their browser and operating systems. Our aim is to provide easy access to all users, particularly for elderly visitors and visitors with special needs. Partially-sighted users should be able to experience the site using screen-reading web browsers.
This website aims to comply with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. If you would like to suggest changes to this site that would make it easy to use, please contact us.
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You can make the text larger or smaller by changing the settings on your browser . To do so, follow the instructions below:
Internet Explorer
Go to the 'View' menu at the top of the browser window. Select 'Text size' and select your desired text size setting e.g. select larger, smaller. Alternatively, if you have a mouse with a scroll-wheel, hold down the 'Control' key (Ctrl) on your keyboard and use the mouse scroll-wheel to change the text size.
Mozilla Firefox
Go to the 'View' menu at the top of the browser window. Select 'Text size' and select 'Increase' or 'Decrease' to go one size up or down.
Other browsers
For other browsers, please check the menus at the top of your browser window to find the text size controls.
On PCs (running Windows 95 and upwards operating system)
Go to the 'Start' button, then select 'Settings', then 'Control Panel', then 'Display', then 'Settings'. Select to change the desktop area by using the resolution sliding bar. We recommend a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels or greater. We suggest a minimum resolution of no less than 800 by 600 pixels.
On Apple Macs
Use the Monitor & Sound Control Panel to change the resolution.
You can fine tune your mouse and keyboard settings (for example, to change the number of mouse clicks required to open a new window)
On PCs (running Windows 9598/NT/2000/XP and above)
Click on the 'Start' button for your computer, then select 'Settings', followed by 'Control Panel', and then 'Accessibility’
On Apple Macs
Click on the 'System Preferences' button the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, then select 'Keyboard & Mouse'