Leaving your home and coming to a new country can be daunting, but for US nurse Grace Hayner, crossing the pond to work in the NHS in Glasgow, meant being reunited with the person she loves.
Grace got married to her husband, a British trainee doctor, in 2021 and was thrilled when she was accepted as one of 52 nurses from overseas recently recruited by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGCC) to support patients and teams on hospital wards.
Grace was working in Brooklyn, New York as an Advanced Practice Nurse, focusing on family medicine in a clinic offering care to uninsured and undocumented citizens. But when she married her husband, a trainee doctor who is based at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, her future was to be found elsewhere.
