Debbie McGirrDebbie McGirr trained and worked as an RGN in Newcastle before moving to Edinburgh to undertake post-registration Sick Children′s Nursing (RSCN) course. She worked across a variety of settings (acute medical/ITU/HDU) before moving into the commnity to undertake her BA Community Health and District Nursing qualification. She set up the REACT palliative care service at RHSC Edinburgh and worked as a community paediatric palliative care nurse across the east of Scotland. She then moved into teaching to be the part-time discipline leader for the national Community Children′s Nursing Degree (Specialist Practitioner Qualification) at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh before taking up a full time post in child health nursing education at Edinburgh Napier University. Debbie took a break from education to develop the community children′s nursing service in Fife as the team manager before returning to Edinburgh Napier to further develop her career in Higher Education. Read More Read Less