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 […]
Category: Adult Nursing
The Question(s) of Frailty….
Dr Fiona McGowan is a Senior Lecturer at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, which is home to a rich environment for teaching and research into healthy aging. We are all living longer and societies globally are ageing. In the UK, the population of those aged over 90 is growing faster […]
Fatigue in patients on haemodialysis, who cares?
Zakariya Al Naamani, PhD student, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. Living with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and receiving haemodialysis treatment is a life challenging task. ESKD causes anaemia, electrolyte imbalances, uraemia and accumulation of waste products. Despite increased survival rates, patients who receive haemodialysis are required to adjust their life to […]
Food for thought in acute stroke
In our third blog of the week for Action on Stroke Month, Trish Elder-Gracie, a Stroke Nurse Specialist in NHS Lothian shares her perspectives on current priorities in the acute management of stroke in the UK. Stroke medicine has changed exponentially since I was a wee student nurse over thirty years ago when we tucked […]
Action on Stroke Month: priorities in the management of, and research on, stroke.
Stroke is an acute event – caused by a sudden interruption in the blood flow to the brain – which requires emergency treatment, often followed by long-term treatments that facilitate recovery and prevent further stroke. The global incidence of stroke has been increasing over the past 25 years, particularly amongst younger people, and this is […]
Should women at high risk of breast cancer be screened in their 30s?
Jan Hunter, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull A major research study has demonstrated that breast screening in women aged 35–39 years can be effective at detecting cancers at an early stage and is therefore expected to be equally effective in reducing mortality rates (Evans et al, 2019). Currently, […]
Delirium in ICU: Not Business as Usual
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ About 25 years ago my Mom underwent a surgical procedure which required her to be in intensive care for several days. She recalls that one night while she was in the ICU, she was surprised to see that all the nurses caring for her were very tiny…far shorter […]
Talking to women about urinary incontinence
Amy Hunter, Lecturer Adult Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds a.e.hunter1@leeds.ac.uk, @aeh_health Join our EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 18th of July 2018, 8-9pm UK time, which will focus on urinary incontinence. Participating in the chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not have one you can create an account at www.twitter.com. Once you have […]
Promoting Exercise for Aging Patients Needs to Start with Us
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ Aging is not for the faint of heart, but getting older and being old are not the same thing. We want to maintain vitality throughout our lives and the key to this is so very simple. We all know the answer: exercise. Of course genetics, diet and lifestyle choices […]
Pain resource nurses: do they help to improve pain management in the acute hospital setting?
This week’s EBN Twitter Chat will focus on the role of the link nurse or resource nurse. Although this blog post focuses on the role and evidence relating to pain, link nurses, champions, or resource nurses are common to many specialities and I hope that you will joint us to talk about pain, infection […]