Roberta Heale Associate Editor, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ When I became a nurse practitioner in family practice twenty years ago, the annual health exam for every patient was standard care. I remember thinking that it seemed to be unnecessary to examine healthy people without any symptoms or risk factors. Research has shown this to be true and […]
Category: Health Promotion
Global Regeneration and Nursing
By Suzi High, KT Shepherd and Laura Green Given the close connection between the environment and the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations, it is surprising that the issue of climate change is not higher up the nursing agenda. It is often the most vulnerable in our communities who are most susceptible to the […]
Healthcare and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary collaboration
Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 5th June 2019, 8-9pm UK time which will be hosted by Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. It will focus on arts in […]
Menstruation: The Next Vital Sign
Roberta Heale Associate Editor, EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ In a presentation at the 40th National Association of Pediatric NPs in New Orleans in early March 2019, Joan Mezera and Meara Henley put forward some important ideas about necessary changes in the way health care providers view and assess menstruation in teenage and adolescent female patients. They […]
Rubella: The Next Anti-Vaxxer Victory?
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor, EBN @robertaheale. @EBNursingBMJ When I started practicing as a primary health care nurse practitioner in 2000, I had no idea of what was to come. Throughout my program I learned all about the recommended vaccine schedule, the components of each vaccine and the devastating illnesses that we were protecting people from, […]
Tis the Season for….Broken Hearts?
Roberta Heale Associate Editor @robertaheale, @EBNursingBMJ For many of us, our hearts fill with joy as the holiday season settles upon us. For many others, this time of year includes sadness or stresses so strong they can break a heart. I recently travelled to visit a friend who had suffered the loss of her husband […]
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 […]
Work force stress and positive coping strategies
Dr Jo Gilmartin, People Systems and Services (PSS) Research Group, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, J.Gilmartin@leeds.ac.uk Contemporary academia has recently been reported as one of the most stressful professions in the United Kingdom; not the dreaming spires of academia; a life of reflection, unpacking concepts, writing papers, sunny afternoons punting on the river, or ‘Educating […]
Here we go again! Flu shots are in.
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ Here we go again. Influenza vaccines are now available at my clinic. The queues to receive it start on one side. On the other side, the rest of the patients either avoid the discussion completely or vehemently oppose getting it. Now, don’t get me wrong. I welcome and […]
The Role of Nursing in a Violent World
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ Recent years have seen a growing number of violent attacks by extremists of all sorts, which target innocent bystanders and civilians. Although attacks have been noted across the globe, two recent include a concert in Manchester and in the streets of London. Initial assistance is swift and […]