In this week’s blog, Lauren McMillan and Austin Willett from Different Strokes, a charity supporting younger stroke survivors across the United Kingdom, highlight the experiences of young people living with stroke. Different Strokes supports people of working age through peer support and the majority of staff and volunteers have been personally affected by stroke. For […]
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Building connections through separation: challenges in neonatal nursing
This week World Prematurity Day (17th November) sought to raise awareness of the impact that premature birth has on professionals and babies. In recognition of the additional challenges that COVID-19 has brought, this year’s theme was ‘Zero Separation – Act now!’. In this week’s blog Taslima Choudhury, a neonatal intensive care nurse and Birmingham Women […]
The importance of Continuing professional development (CPD) for nurses.
Dr Jane Wray, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Director of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull. @livinginhope Dr Giuseppe Aleo, Research Assistant, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. @GiuseppeAleo66 @EuropeanCpd Engaging in CPD is central to the professional development of nurses and midwives and necessary to deliver high quality, […]
Supporting Leadership and Positive Learning Cultures through Professional Nurse Advocacy
Julia (@juliafairhall3) is an Assistant Director of Nursing at a community trust. Her work portfolio focuses on quality, patient safety and workforce development Julia’s passions are in Community Nursing, learning and development and psychological safety. Julia is a qualified District Nurse and Queen’s Nurse and is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Emerging leader scholar for 2021. […]
The future of MSc nursing dissertations – a victim of its own success?
In our blog this week, Dr Nicola Roberts (@DrNRoberts) and Mr Ben Parkinson (@ParkinsonBen1) from Glasgow Caledonian University discuss the current changes affecting student research in the NHS and the future for MSc dissertations in nursing. The Masters of Sciences degree (MSc) is becoming increasingly popular with nurses and provides a useful stepping stone into […]
Support for Health Care Professionals with Long Covid returning to work: A national disgrace
Alison Twycross – Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Nursing Journal (@alitwy) Just over a year ago @jakesuett and I wrote a Blog titled: Health Care Professionals with Long Covid: Have they been forgotten? Very little has changed since. Long Covid is a new disease which we know relatively little about. However, we do know that: Long Covid […]
COVID: The student nurse perspective
In our third COVID-focused blog this month, Anna Glasgow (Twitter: @anna_glaschu) provides a powerful account of student nurses’ experience at the start of the pandemic in 2020… I was on my penultimate placement of my nursing degree when the pandemic hit Scotland. It really was like a wave. Working in A&E at the time reminds […]
Children’s Palliative Care in a Pandemic
Our second COVID0-19 Series blog is by Gilda Davis @GMD2019 She is the Senior Lecturer in Children and Young Peoples Nursing, School of Health and Social Wellbeing, University of the West of England; and PhD student, University of Worcester The underpinning philosophy of children’s palliative care is the provision of high quality care for all […]
Covid -19 pandemic redeployment of paediatric cardiac nurse specialists to adult intensive care units – could we do it?
Janet Mallory @malloryjem, Liz Smith @littlenurseliz & Sarah Mead Regan. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) In March 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. 2020 was also declared the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by WHO but has been extended into 2021 to highlight the work and challenging conditions, […]
Preparing for Baby Loss Awareness Week 9-15 October 2021
Sam Collinge, Bereavement Lead Midwife at George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton reflects on her role supporting families who have been affected by pregnancy and baby loss and talks about Baby Loss Awareness Week. Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 Oct) brings together health care professionals, international bereavement charities, support and counselling organisations to give anyone touched by […]