This week’s EBN Twitter Chat is on Wednesday 1st of March, between 8-9 pm (UK time) and will be hosted by Roberta Heale (@robertaheale) Associate Editor at EBN.
The Twitter chat this week will focus on a commentary about a nurse-led exercise program for hemodialysis patients. Nursing care very often incorporates health promotion and disease prevention programming, particularly related to chronic disease management. In fact, the development and implementation of health programs are somewhat unique skills to nursing; that often go unrecognized. In this age of fiscal accountability, it’s important to highlight and evaluate nurse-led programs to offer evidence to both improve and sustain them. It’s even more important to determine positive patient outcomes from these programs. We’ll explore the prevalence of nurse-led programs along with facilitators and barriers. How are programs evaluated and what recommendations do nurses who have participated in a health program have for those of us thinking about developing one?
To read the commentary, please click on this link: http://ebn.bmj.com/content/19/1/12
Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account at www.twitter.com. Once you have an account, contributing is straightforward. You can follow the discussion by searching links to #ebnjc, or contribute by creating and sending a tweet (tweets are text messages limited to 140 characters) to @EBNursingBMJ and add #ebnjc (the EBN Twitter chat hash tag) at the end of your tweet, this allows everyone taking part to view your tweets.
Questions to consider prior to the Twitter Chat:
- What are your experiences with nurse-led programs? What were the outcomes?
- What do you think are important considerations for nurse-led programs?
- What are the facilitators and barriers to nurse-led programs?