00:00So I've been nursing now for 42 years, which makes me feel incredibly old. I got into nursing,
00:26I always wanted to be a nurse. I think my earliest recognition was probably from the age of six.
00:34I used to have, and I was just going to sound really sad, a little nurse's uniform and I used
00:39to go around at home putting all my dollies and teddy bears in the bed and I used to go around
00:43taking all the temperatures. So my mum was always very keen that I was a nurse. I think she probably
00:49would quite like to have been one. So it was something I always wanted to do. Well it was
00:54quite exciting really. I was sitting having my breakfast with my 93 year old dad and I popped
00:59in an email to say that I'd been successful in getting the title of Queen's nurse. So yeah,
01:04that was quite fun really. So he was quite excited too. So yes, I was very pleased to get it.
01:13Queen's nurse history goes right back to Queen Victoria, which is why it's called the Queen's
01:18Nurse Nurse, which is why it hasn't changed at all with the change of our monarchy. So that's where
01:25its roots lie and it was the first organised way of training nurses right back then. It's now
01:34changed into being a charity, well it was a charity back then, it's now the Queen's Nursing Institute
01:41and it's there to support outstanding community nursing and excellence in nursing to promote
01:46that and to encourage nurses in the community to achieve the award and to keep going really and
01:55support each other. It's a really positive thing to do and to hopefully encourage others to think
02:01about going into nursing because I think it's an amazing profession.
02:15So the Early Help Hub was started in Cornwall Council in 2015 and it was the first integrated front
02:25door for children's early help services in Cornwall. So it was the first one of its kind in the UK
02:31and it was a really exciting thing to be involved in as you can imagine. So the Early Help Hub provides
02:38the front door for all early help services across the spectrum of health and early help, so that would
02:47include health assisting, school nursing and then on the council side family work, youth work, early support,
02:56mental health support, so anything that you feel you need additional support for for your child or young
03:07person and also for parents as well. To get this title it sort of has given me a little bit of umph to keep
03:15going and to keep pushing forward and see that even though I've been in it for 42 years I've still
03:23got more to give and I still feel passionate about it and want to keep moving forward and look and
03:30doing our best for children and young people and to try and do more to keep them safe and do more to identify
03:37health inequalities and try and make a difference.
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