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Background: In 2015 the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland, a charitable organisation with a 130-year history, took the decision to reintroduce the Queen’s Nurse title to Scotland. We co-created an ‘Excellence Profile’ to set out what a new Queen’s Nurse might look like, and in 2016 I applied for a Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship to support my role in enabling this new programme. Aims: This article aims to describe and critically reflect on the journey of Scotland’s Queen’s Nurse programme from inspiration to realisation, and my parallel journey of developing as a leader and expert facilitator. Conclusions: The Excellence Profile truly resonates with practitioners and has enabled transformational personal and professional development journeys over the course of the first nine-month Queen’s Nurse programme. It has also provided a useful framework for my own learning and development in seeking to become the best I can be. Implications for practice: The Queen’s Nurse Excellence Profile has a strong resonance with expert community nursing practitioners as a framework for personal and professional development |
