By Roberta Heale @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ A few months ago I wrote about wholistic care and the implementation of acupuncture into my practice. I completed the first course in March and, this past weekend, just completed the second. I’ve taken an anatomical acupuncture program, which translates acupuncture from Traditional Chinese Medicine into a western medicine, anatomical […]
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Shape of Caring Review: Impact for Children’s Nursing Education
Alison Twycross (@alitwy), Editor and Jo Smith (@josmith175), Associate Editor of Evidence-Based Nursing will be leading this week’s ENB Twitter Chat (#ebnjc) on Wednesday 20th May between 8-9pm UK time focusing on the recently published Shape of Caring Review: Raising the Bar (2015) (available from: http://bit.ly/1FQKGsU) and the implications for the education of children’s […]
Ordinary to extraordinary: skilled communication in nursing
Megan Blinn and Helen Noble Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Communication is generally acknowledged as essential to nursing practice and managing clinical situations in challenging clinical environments, working within a system that serves increasing numbers of people with complex health needs using static or dwindling resources. There are many definitions of communication in the nursing […]
Learning about physiological birth in the USA: Evidence and reality
As an Australian midwife who has been teaching maternal-newborn nursing for over 22 years, I am still excited to hear students share their clinical stories with each other as they learn about maternity care. Now that I am in the United States, students’ stories reflect a unique and different culture. Each year my students visit […]
Healthcare and the LGBT Community
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale, @EBNursingBMJ In December, EBN’s Editor, Alison Twycross, wrote about living in a gendered world. I recently watched a television segment that included an interview with US ex-Navy Seal, Kristen Beck, who lived as Christopher Beck throughout most of her life before revealing her feminine identify http://bit.ly/1HnV7F2 The segment […]
Nursing: Still a Great Career
By Roberta Heale, EBN Associate Editor @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ I knew I was scheduled to post the blog this week, but I struggled with what to write. I scanned EBNursing website and Twitter account @EBNursingBMJ as well as other nursing related stories and research articles. There were so many potential topics that soon my head was […]
Is it time to change our approach to end of life education in undergraduate nursing?
This week’s EBN twitter chat on Wednesday 4th March between 8-9 pm (UK time) will focus on end of life education in undergraduate nursing. This week’s Blog has been written by Dr Claire Lewis from Queens University Belfast and provides some areas to think about ahead of the Twitter Chat. Participating in the twitter chat […]
The Freedom to Speak Up review – whistleblowing post Mid Staffordshire
Extreme poor standards of care exposed at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in England made national headlines in 2009 and horrified the public and NHS staff alike. A report led by Robert Francis QC, a barrister with extensive experience of clinical negligence claims exposed appalling treatment of patients and high mortality rates at the hospital […]
Building communication bridges with information technology: Looking back as we leap forward.
It is now almost two years since I wrote a blog on the introduction of the electronic medical record (EMR) in our local health service.1 It was the day before the new EMR system went ‘live’ and clinicians were nervous about how it would affect their daily lives and, most importantly, communication with patients and […]
End of year ramblings: Living in a gendered society
I am going to have a moment or two of self-indulgence as I write this Blog and reflect on some of the things I have been pondering this year. As ever it has been an action packed year not only did I move out of London (and so am now a proper commuter). I also […]