The lovely Lynn Lawson has retired from her post as Lead Dental Nurse after 44 years as a Dental Nurse.
Lynn is one of those fortunate people who followed her dreams as she always wanted to be a dental nurse and made it her vocation.
She started her training in the Clark and Watson Dental Practice in Falkirk in 1978 as a wee fresh faced young girl. Lynn moved into orthodontics, working for the Health Board with Sandy Cockburn at the former Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary in 1982 and has remained with NHS Forth Valley for 40 years.
During this time Lynn has seen many changes, from working in Suite C in Falkirk and travelling to cover clinics in Snowdon Place (with Nancy Ure and Ross Hood); then going to the Mayfield Health Centre in 1987. She and the consultant Christine Wood build up a thriving clinic at Falkirk & District Royal Infirmary with a wonderful family atmosphere.
fter Christine’s retirement the Orthodontic Departments at Stirling and Falkirk & District Royal Infirmaries merged with two consultants Pat Rimmer and Ruth Fowler commuting between the hospitals and a team of nurses under Lynn’s leadership running the show.
The Orthodontic Department was one of the first to move into the newly built Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert in 2010 and this cemented the merger. The staff recall packing up and moving a whole ‘wall’ of blue boxes to the new hospital on the Friday, frantically unpacking over the weekend and welcoming patients in on the Monday morning, not one second of clinical time was lost under Lynn’s direction.
Lynn has a fantastic calm, cool manner which was always a marvellous balm; whenever interpersonal problems arose Lynn was great at pouring oil on troubled waters. Her colleagues shall miss her greatly.
