Since starting my last job in 2002, I have been arranging adventures...challenges that offer nurses the opportunity to get together, have a laugh, have a moan, be around folks that understand...and together rise to a different kind of challenge to the ones we face every day as we walk to work.

To start with I took a group of chemotherapy nurses up a mountain in the Lake District. We walked and talked in the day, and ate, drank, danced and swam in the lake come nightfall.

I then started to get ambitious...by advertising on the hospital intranet, 10 of us got together to canoe across Scotland, wild camping along the way.

We've been long-distance cycling, done a 'pilgrimage' on the Camino Del Norte, traversed Costa Rica by human power only, and trekked in Nepal.  

It occured to me recently....why did I stop?  Just because I don't work in the UK, or the NHS doesnt mean that a gang of nurses wouldn't want to get together and do something mad....does it?

So, I'm going to try it ... we can call it 'group therapy'!  Keep in touch!

​Sue x