Written by Dr Ruth E Barker, Dr Nicola Roberts, Ms Lisa Dow & Mr Russell Winwood Back in 2019, Nicola wrote a blog about World COPD Day1. Since then, World COPD Day efforts have grown, and the national day has become gradually more supported on social media and more widely. However, […]
Category: Adult Nursing
The rise and rise of the nursing apprentices.
This blog comes from Alwin Puthenpurakal, an experienced senior lecturer and researcher working at The University of Greenwich. He led University apprenticeship programmes since its inception and highly values the impact it has on widening social mobility and addressing the national workforce challenges. With almost two decades worth of clinical experience, he is an experienced […]
Promoting true evidence-based practice using critically appraised topics (CATs).
The next blog from our series on knowledge mobilisation comes from Dr Andrew Finney, Senior Lecturer of Nursing at Keele University. This blog introduces the use of Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) in community nursing. Dr Andrew Finney is a Senior Lecturer at Keele University’s School’s of Nursing and Midwifery, and Medicine. Andrew holds the title […]
ACT NOW TO SAVE FEET
My name is Jayne Robbie and I am a podiatrist (with a special interest in diabetes) working within a multi-professional hospital team treating people with foot complications associated with diabetes. My main aim is to reduce ulcerations and amputations which are the main cause of hospital admissions for diabetes in the UK. I have worked […]
STOP Pressure Ulcer Day: The Need to Focus Darker Skin Tones
By Neesha Oozageer Gunowa, PhD Candidate Oxford Brookes University @ne55hao STOP Pressure Ulcer Day is a global annual event occurring every 3rd Thursday in November. This year the event is taking place on the 19th November where industry, healthcare professionals, the public and media come together to bring to light the topic of pressure ulcers. […]
Resilience in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the COVID pandemic
In this week’s blog, Dr Nicola Roberts (@DrNRoberts) discusses some of the research that she and colleagues have been undertaking focussing on the resilience of nurses working in respiratory care during the COVID pandemic. Dr Nicola Roberts, is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK and her research looks at improving how […]
COVID19 Infodemic – A Tsunami of Health Literacy Issues
In this week’s blog, Dr Evelyn McElhinney (@evmcelhinney), Senior Lecturer in Advanced Practice at Glasgow Caldedonian University and the Chair Elect of Health Literacy UK (@literacyhealth) discusses the impact of the current pandemic on health literacy needs and how we as nurses can help. In February 2020 at the Munich Security Conference Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
Social media, palliative care, and the Coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic.
by Professor Bridget Johnston, Florence Nightingale Foundation Clinical Professor of Nursing, University of Glasgow and Ms Maria Drummond, PhD Student at University of Glasgow and District Nurse. The importance of delivering effective palliative care in the Coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic is essential. In Scotland, we realised that clinicians working in palliative and end-of-life care during the […]
Catching your breath… how do we help the “missing millions” who don’t know they have a respiratory condition?
Dr Nicola Roberts is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK and her research focuses on improving how we deliver care to those with respiratory disease. It is coming up to World COPD day this month (20th November) and I wanted to highlight the lack of recognition of respiratory disease. Respiratory disease […]
Out of Hours Triage: how do we use it effectively and appropriately?
The world in which we live is changing constantly at an alarming rate. Prior to working at NHS 24, I worked within the hospital setting within acute medicine; I had no insight into Out of Hours (OOH) care or how I accessed it. If I was unwell, I knew it would keep until I could […]