The BRIDGE project: Research to improve discharge guidance for South Asian families affected by congenital heart disease In this blog, Dr Luong Tran, a PhD student researcher at Birmingham City University, describes the design of the BRIDGE study to improve discharge planning for non-English-speaking parents and explains how the study contributes to addressing research gaps […]
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WAIT-UP SLT: Exploring Experiences of Waiting within Children’s Speech and Language Therapy
This week’s blog is written by DHealth candidate, and Senior Lecturer, Gillian Rudd from Birmingham City University. Gill’s blog is about her DHealth study WAIT-UP SLT: Exploring Experiences of Waiting within Children’s Speech and Language Therapy. Communication is a human right Speech and language therapists are allied health professionals who support people of all […]
Seeing Beyond the Bedside: A Psychology Student’s Research Internship Journey on PICU
This week’s blog is written by NIHR undergraduate intern, Abi Steward, who will be commencing an integrated Master’s programme at the University of Birmingham @UoB_SoP in September. Abi was supervised by Sam Finn and Helen Winmill, and the PICU Research Team. Seeing Beyond the Bedside: A Psychology Student’s Research Internship Journey on PICU In the […]
Understanding the discharge process in Paediatric Intensive Care
Understanding the discharge process in PICU: Highlights from an Undergraduate Clinical Research Internship at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children This week’s blog is written by Ella Venn, who is a staff nurse on the Intensive Care Unit at North Bristol NHS Trust. Last summer I had the opportunity to take part in a clinical research […]
The CAIT project: an evidence based resource in the care of older people with dementia
This weeks’ blog is by Ewan James, Assistant Psychologist at Hertfordshire University NHS Trust (e.james27@nhs.net) Behavioural and emotional changes are common in those living with dementia. Such phenomena are referred to as ‘Behaviours that Challenge’ (BtC), and include aggression, self-harm, avoidance, depression, shouting, and a lack of self-care amongst other things. While the behaviours often […]
AI in Healthcare: Benefits, Opportunities and Challenges
This week’s blog is written by Gerry Bolger (@DigitalGerry). Gerry is both a nurse and an independent digital clinical safety officer working with both NHS and health and social care manufacturers, ensuring products meet the NHS digital clinical safety requirements Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept – it is rapidly reshaping healthcare […]
From Theory to Practice: Nursing Students Navigate Multimorbidity in Research Internships
This week’s blog is written Becky Nisbet and Olivia Matthais, two nursing students from the University of York, sharing their experiences of the NIHR Undergraduate Internship scheme. In 2024 the NIHR Academy launched its first round of the Undergraduate Internship programme. This scheme encouraged undergraduate students from under-represented disciplines […]
Developing resilience: the creative arts in nurse education
In this weeks’ blog Hazel Cowls, Adult Nurse lecturer, University of Plymouth (Hazel.cowls@plymouth.ac.uk), highlights the use of the creative arts in nurse education. What is resilience?Resilience is recognised as the ability to ‘bounce back’ from adversity. Nursing literature suggests that there are three broad categories of resilience in nursing, these are wellbeing, social support, and […]
Evidence-based Practice: Approach with caution?
This weeks’ blog is by Adam Ferner, Child Nursing Student, City St George’s, University of London (adam.ferner@citystgeorges.ac.uk), and considers some of the injustices around EBP. http://www.adamferner.com/ Evidence-based practice (EBP) is at the heart of modern healthcare. Certainly, there is much to recommend EBP, which involves the integration of the best evidence, clinical experience and patient […]
Should community nursing be a nursing field of its own?
This weeks’ blog is by Stephanie Reynolds, Senior Lecturer, MSc Nursing course lead, Birmingham City University (stephanie.reynolds@bcu.ac.uk) Having researched the background into community nursing , and specifically district nursing within pre-registration adult […]