The Queen's Nursing Institute
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.
Supporting the Fund for Innovation and Leadership.
Visit our District Nursing 150 website, a celebration of the vibrant one hundred and fifty year history of District Nursing in the UK.
Midwifery
The picture shows a midwife assisting a home birth during the 1950s, a period when most births took place at home. Today only about 3% of births take place outside hospital.
Midwives have a vital role in preparing women for the arrival of new life.However, their role goes much further than delivering babies; they're involved in antenatal and postnatal care, in counselling, in offering support and education, and in helping mothers and their partners prepare for parenthood.
More midwives now work in the community, providing services in women's homes, local clinics, children's centres and GP surgeries. Others are hospital based.
To read some real life stories of midwives at work please see: http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/midwife_stories.shtml
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How could my money help?
Training
£10 could provide five nurses with a resource pack on working with homeless families
Equipment
£50 could pay for the essential equipment for sick babies being tube fed at home
Support
£100 could provide a year's rent of a care alarm to help keep a retired community nurse safe in her home
Campaigning for nurses
