Meet Caryn - Our Student Sub Group, ENU Social Media co-ordinator

 

Caryn McWhirter is a third year Learning Disability Nursing student at Edinburgh Napier University and assists in keeping all you tweeters up-to-date with SLDNN sub-group info.

Caryn was inspired by her younger cousin, Ryan, who had profound and multiple learning disabilities as well as the nurses who worked alongside him to choose a career in Learning Disability Nursing.

Within university, Caryn participates in the Peer Assisted Student Support group where she offers advice and support to students in the lower years throughout their academic modules and practice placements. She co-wrote an academic paper on ‘Mindfulness in Nursing’ which is due for publication this year. More recently, Caryn was host to 40 international students during an intensive programme on the needs of children and young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in which she participated in the development of a new, international university module.

Caryn works in a neuro-rehab unit as well as on the staff bank. She was nominated for NSA Student of the Year 2015.

Throughout her university degree, Caryn has developed a particular interest in epilepsy and hopes to study at Masters Level following graduation with the hope of becoming an epilepsy specialist nurse. She will graduate with a distinction in October 2015 and has a post as a Community Learning Disability Nurse in London.