Dr David Barrett, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull; @barrett1972 Since the start of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on all areas of society – none more so than health and social care. Nurses and other professional groups have had to find innovative approaches to delivering care services in fast-changing conditions, during differing […]
Category: Covid-19
Health Care Professionals with Long Covid: Have they been forgotten?
This week’s Blog is written by our Editor-in-Chief Alison Twycross (@alitwy) and Dr Jake Suett, a staff grade doctor in Intensive Care, (@jakesuett) who both have suspected “Long Covid”. In the Blog they discuss what Long Covid is and discuss some of the employment related issues health care professionals may encounter. #CountLongCovid @EBNursingBMJ As of […]
Evidence Based Practice in the Time of COVID… Back to Basics
Roberta Heale, Deputy Editor for Social Media for EBN, @robertaheale, @EBNuringBMJ The first blogs written for EBN in 2012 were about the use of evidence in practice. In fact, the inaugural blog described that although evidence-based nursing is the standard of our care, there are many barriers, some of which include difficulty finding, or lack […]
Clinical Research Delivery Teams and the Covid response: defining a new specialty
This week’s blog comes from Nicolas Aldridge, Lead Nurse for Research and Development at UHCW NHS Trust and a NIHR 70@70 Research Leader. He has worked in research for past 13 years and is passionate about increasing research opportunities for patients, and promoting a clinical career in research for nurses and midwives. The emergence and […]
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, […]
COVID 19 Recovery: The Long and Winding Road
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN. @robertaheale. @EBNursingBMJ UPDATE: BMJ has posted an article about “LongCOVID” which is the experience of ongoing symptoms once the acute phase is over. Their article can be read here: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3026 Be sure to check out this handy infographic which is embedded in the article. Long Covid Infographic If you’re like […]
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 […]
From Student to Newly Qualified Nurse (NQN) during Covid-19: A transition unlike any other
by Dr Jane Wray, Associate Editor Evidence-Based Nursing As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued we have become increasingly concerned about the impact on students and colleagues’ mental health and wellbeing. Research carried out without of the UK indicates that those caring directly for COVID-19 patients are at greatest risk of increased distress – reporting more […]
e-PROactive care for now and for the future
What qualifies as a good outcome in healthcare? For health systems and professionals, measuring things like lab values, physical performance, mortality rates, length of stay, or readmissions is key and routine practice. But if you are the patient, facing an acute illness or chronic condition, what matters the most? Am I going to live? Are […]