This week’s blog is written by Dr Sarah Russell (@LearnPEOLC), Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Sarah is also a Florence Nightingale Foundation (@FNightingaleF) Alumni Champion. She is also a member of the British Geriatrics Society, End of Life Special Interest Group and Co-author, The Lancet Commission […]
Category: Palliative Care
Last Breaths
This week’s blog is written by Dr Sarah Russell (@LearnPEOLC ) who is Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust as well as being an @FNightingaleF scholar. Diagnosing dying can be challenging. Clinicians have limited accuracy in the prediction of patient survival (Hui et al 2011) and […]
Let’s talk about death
Alex Pinto, PhD student, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds Twitter: @alexpinto50 What do you think about when you look at this picture of a graveyard? What type of feelings does it conjure up for you? For many people within our contemporary western society, death and dying tends to be associated with negative feelings. […]
Palliative Care – it’s My Care, My Right
Palliative Care: It’s My Care, My Right Our next Twitter Chat is on Wednesday 9th October at 8pm UKC. It is an opportunity for you to share innovations, experiences and evidence from your palliative care practice, using the hashtag #EBNJC. We are particularly interested in equality – what obstacles to accessing palliative care have you […]
Meaning making And Generativity In Children and Young people with Life limiting conditions (MAGICYL)
This week’s EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 19th of September 8-9 pm (UK time) will be hosted by the MAGICYL team and will focus on dignity therapy and meaning-making activities for children and young people with life limiting conditions. Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have […]
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 […]
Supporting hope at the end of life
Paula Gawthorpe, Nurse Lecturer, School of Health and Social Work, University of Hull As a nurse with a clinical background of working with patients and families at the end of life, I have long been fascinated by the concept of hope. What is it, how does it work, what does it do, and – pardon […]
Mobilising identity through social media; psychosocial support for young people with life limiting conditions outside of the care setting
George Peat, PhD student based in the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds. Interested in predominantly qualitative research that explores perceptions of the self, @gpeat1 Join our EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 7th of March 2018, 8-9pm UK time, which will focus on social media as a psychosocial support for young people with life limiting […]
To tell or not to tell? Honesty and hope in cancer nursing.
Jan Hunter, Lecturer in Nursing, University of Hull In the rather paternalistic past of the NHS, the established wisdom was that ‘doctor knew best’. If it was deemed a patient didn’t need to know they had a poor prognosis, then they didn’t find out (unless they had the wherewithal to put two and two together, […]
Dementia and Advance Care Planning
We are delighted to share with you our latest guest blog, in partnership with @WeEOLC, from Sarah Russell on the topic of dementia and advance care planning. Sarah Russell is the Head of Research and Clinical Innovation at Hospice UK. She is also the full time carer for her mother who lives well with Alzheimer’s. […]