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 […]
Category: Nurse education
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 […]
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 […]
The Future Nurse Standards: Implementation and Delivery
This week’s EBN Twitter Chat will focus on the new Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) standards of proficiency and education for registered nurses, which will have their parliamentary launch on Thursday 17 May. We are tweeting directly from the Council of Deans of Health (CoDH) summit (#Council2018) at a slightly different time to normal – […]
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 […]