The Shetlanders - The Happy Nurse

Vicky Schofield moved to Shetland from Chester four years ago to pursue her “perfect job” as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the Lerwick Health Centre, in Shetland’s capital. But while the job offered clear benefits — more time with patients, the chance to study for her Master’s degree, a generous relocation package — she also had to think about her husband, Martin, and her children Charlotte and Reuben, now nine and six. “Of course, there were a lot of questions,” she says. “Would we fit in? Would we li