This week’s blog has been written by Dr Carol Gray Brunton, from Edinburgh Napier University, UK and highlights the vital role that nurses and health professionals play in addressing beliefs around vaccines. Vaccination is one of the most successful public health interventions in developing countries through the eradication of infectious diseases. Achieving high vaccination rates […]
Category: Covid-19
Disability: It’s Not What You Think It Is
Cass Macdonald, a nurse from Scotland, writes about working as a disabled person in the NHS and how ableism impacts those with protected characteristics. As more NHS staff are affected by Long Covid, ableist discrimination is likely to become a real issue. Thanks for Alexander Hardy’s assistance in framing this post. Cass is on Twitter […]
The rise and fall of our NHS heroes
The current Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the impact of the health care staffing crisis. As of June 2021, there were 38,952 registered nurse vacancies across the health service in England. In addition, nurses are the largest occupational group impacted by Long Covid. Given this, you might imagine appropriate support would be in place to support these colleagues to return to […]
Spreading the word – why SciComm and nurses are a perfect match, especially during a pandemic
Dr Susie Cartledge, BN(Hons), PhD, FESC, FCSANZ @susiecartledge,Melbourne, Australia Dr Susie Cartledge is a Registered Nurse and Senior Research Fellow. Her research focuses on empowering cardiac patients and their families to manage cardiovascular disease long term. There have been so many health messages during the COVID19 pandemic. Stay home, wash your hands, wear a mask, […]
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 […]
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, […]
#Thankyou; can gratitude alone be an effective catalyst for change?
By Dr Elizabeth Bailey Today, (4th July 2021) is #Thankyou day in the UK1, an initiative which has emerged from the global pandemic. This will be the first UK day of collective focus for celebrating gratitude. Many countries have annual festivals of Thanksgiving, often linked to autumn harvests, and many cultures and belief systems support […]