This week’s blog is part of the ‘Early Career Researchers'(ECRs) theme. Dr Gearóid Brennan is the Lead Psychiatric Liaison Nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is an early career researcher, having achieved his PhD in 2021. Gearóid reflects on his journey of being an ECR while maintaining a clinical career and offers some […]
Category: Nursing Career Pathways
Leadership Development for All Nurses: The Time is Now
This weeks’ blog focuses on Leadership Development and is by Katarzyna (Kasia) Czabanowska, Prof, Dr @KatarzynaCzaba1, Emily McWhirter, PhD, RN @McWhirterEmily and Barbara Stilwell, PhD, MSC, FRCN, FAAN @bathebrit Nurses and midwives make up 50% of the world’s healthcare workforce but remain severely under-represented in senior leadership1. To address this longstanding concern, we have […]
The Nursing Academic; supporting the transition for clinical practice to Higher Education
This weeks blog is by Phil Downing, Academic Operational Lead, University of Bolton. and, Helen Lord, Senior Lecturer, CPD Lead, University of Bolton. One of the responses to the well-recognised workforce shortages within the NHS in England1 has been a commitment within the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan to increase adult nursing training places by 92% […]
The rise and rise of the nursing apprentices.
This blog comes from Alwin Puthenpurakal, an experienced senior lecturer and researcher working at The University of Greenwich. He led University apprenticeship programmes since its inception and highly values the impact it has on widening social mobility and addressing the national workforce challenges. With almost two decades worth of clinical experience, he is an experienced […]
Evidence Based Nursing is supporting the next generation of nurse editors
Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) is committed to supporting new editors and the editorial team has developed and launched a new innovative ‘Editorial Development Opportunity’ (EDO) for nurses. Dr Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi (Associate Editor; Lead for Diversity and Clinical Academic Careers) and Dr Ben Parkinson (Deputy Editor for Content) recently attended the 41st Annual Meeting of the International […]
“Delivering our future workforce is ultimately dependent on a sustainable and high quality educator workforce to support education and training, both in practice and in academic settings” (Health Education England 2023, pg. 3)
By Dr Jane Wray, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Hull University, and Senior Clinical Nurse Advisor (National Preceptorship Programme) The ‘Educator Workforce Strategy1 was recently released in England has acknowledged the urgent need for workforce investment and capacity building across practice and academic settings. Health-care expectations continue to shift, new information technologies emerge, practice requirements continue […]
GloSTaRs – Supporting early career professionals to thrive, not just survive.
This week’s blog comes from Charlotte Jakab-Hall, Senior Practice Development Nurse and Peer Support Guardian and Leonora King, Practice Development Nurse and Peer Support Guardian at Gloucester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Blog summary Gloucestershire Staff Transition and Retention Support Network (GloSTaRs) was co-created by two early career nurses following their preceptorship programme in […]
Tackling nurse recruitment in Health and Justice Settings: Creating a Professional Identity
By Lisa Wraith, Bsc (Hons), Msc, RNA, Queen’s Nurse, Head of Healthcare HMP Lancaster Farms, Spectrum Community Health CIC The COVID 19 pandemic has placed increased pressure on the nursing workforce globally and the United Kingdom (UK) workforce has insufficient staff to meet patient demand1. Nursing vacancies in the UK are estimated to be 50,000 […]
Next Stop: Nurse Entrepreneurship
Judy Campbell MSN, RN, CCM Nurse & Writer; judy@judy-campbell.com Entrepreneurs strive to work efficiently, are attentive to details, and are focused. Sounds exactly what nurses are like. Nurse entrepreneurs offer a unique perspective on the nursing role and challenge traditional views of the nursing profession. This significant shift is important as future health challenges call […]
A Day in the Life of…a Professional Practice Educator with 111 Wales
In the third and final blog of our current ‘Day In the Life Of…’ spotlight on the diversity of nursing roles in telephone triage, Ms Claire Hughes talks about her role as a Professional Practice Educator with NHS 111 Wales. (1) What is your job title and your main role/responsibilities? I work for the Welsh […]