Authors: Claire Carmichael, Birmingham City University, Adult Nursing Year 3, @C_Carmichael83 Julie Dorrian, Queen’s University Belfast, Adult Nursing Year 1, @juliedorrian2 Aneica Duffy, Queen’s University Belfast, Adult Nursing Year 1 , @AneicaD Natlie Elliott Glasgow Caledonian University, Adult, Year 1, @Natalie_StN Graeme Gentles, Abertay University, Mental Health, Year 3, @GraemeGentles78 Angharad Jones, University of South […]
Category: Nurse education
We need smart, well-educated nurses – no ifs, no buts
As I write this Blog, RCN Congress is taking place and nursing is in the news in the UK for the right reasons. For example, a call for the safe staffing legislation in all four UK countries as well as highlighting the need to review how nurse education is funded to help address the current […]
Summary of Twitter Chat – Wednesday 17th April 2019 Exploration of the use of mobile SPaced LEarning as a digital learning platform when teaching symptom management to undergraduate Nursing StudenExploration of the use of mobile SPaced LEarning as a digital learning platform when teaching symptom management to undergraduate Nursing Students: SPLENdidS study
Dr Clare Mc Veigh, Susan Carlisle, Matt Birch and Dr Helen Kerr from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast designed and ran The SPLENdidS study. You can find out more at the EBN blog https://tinyurl.com/y2arwjbc The EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 17th April 2019, was hosted by Dr Claire McVeigh, The SPLENdidS […]
Exploration of the use of mobile SPaced LEarning as a digital learning platform when teaching symptom management to undergraduate Nursing StudenExploration of the use of mobile SPaced LEarning as a digital learning platform when teaching symptom management to undergraduate Nursing Students: SPLENdidS study
Dr Clare Mc Veigh, Susan Carlisle, Matt Birch and Dr Helen Kerr School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 6th February 2019, 8-9pm UK time which will be hosted by Dr Claire McVeigh, a Lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. It will […]
Summary of Twitter Chat, 6th March 2019, 8-9pm: Interprofessional collaborative practice, exploring how this approach might work best and related influencing factors.
The EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 6th March 2019, 8-9pm was hosted by Associate Editor Helen Noble @helnoble and @EBNursingBMJ with use of #ebnjc. A blog with a helpful introduction to the Twitter Chat can be found here https://blogs.bmj.com/ebn/2019/03/04/interprofessional-education-and-effective-partnerships-between-health-and-social-care/ We were joined by Professor Alison Machin, Head of Department, Nursing Midwifery and Health, Northumbria […]
Interprofessional Education and Effective Partnerships Between Health and Social Care
Professor Alison Machin, Head of Department, Nursing Midwifery and Health, Northumbria University Dr. Anita Atwal, Associate Professor Interprofessional Working, School of Health & Social Care, London South Bank University Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 6th March 2019, 8-9pm UK time which will be hosted by Professor Alison Machin, Head of Department, […]
Leading Across Boundaries
Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 3rdof October 2017, 8-9pm UK time which will focus on leading across the boundaries and will be hosted by Dr. Susan Hamer, Director of Nursing, Learning and Organisational Development, National Institute for Health Research(@OfficialNIHR, @dollyblue3) Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not […]
Should lectures be a thing of the past?
As Deputy Dean and Lead Nurse a lot of my time at the moment is spent leading the work to develop our new pre-registration nursing curriculum against the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (2018) Future Nurse standards. As editor of Evidence Based Nursing I am also keen to ensure our curriculum is evidence based. We have […]
Safe medicine administration
Jayne Pentin, Professional Development Nurse Leeds Children’s Hospital Dr Joanna Smith, Associate Professor, Child Nursing, University of Leeds The UK Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for nursing include ensuring patients are safe (NMC, 2015), with the 2010 guidance on preparing and administering medicines, remaining unchanged (NMC, 2010). Although the role of the nurse in relation […]
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 […]