Nova Corcoran, University of South Wales will be leading this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 18th of February between 8-9pm focusing on ‘5 Quick ways to use health promotion theory with patients’. Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account […]
Category: Primary Health Care
Acupuncture and My Search for Chronic Pain Treatments
by @RobertaHeale, Associate Editor, EBN What I like about being a nurse practitioner is the ability to provide wholistic care to patients including assessment, diagnosis and treatment. It brings me great professional satisfaction to not only monitor my patient’s response to treatment of chronic conditions, but also to educate them about their condition and implement […]
Reaching unreachable Groups by Nova Corcoran, Senior Lecturer, University of South Wales. Twitter @NovaCorks
Firstly, the title of this blog is misleading. No group is unreachable. A better term is ‘hard to reach’ as this implies the possibility that they can be reached. Why are they hard to reach? Here are two suggestions. Firstly, the very nature of society and our norms, values and practices exclude certain […]
The need to focus on public health nursing by Wendy J Nicholson, Department of Health Public Health Nursing Professional Officer – School and Community Nursing. Twitter @WendyJNicholson
The next EBN TWITTER journal chat will take place on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 8-9 pm (UK time) and focus on public health nursing challenges and roles. Before joining in the Twitter Chat you might like to read the associated Blog Introduction Over the last few years we have been fortunate to work with a number […]
Can Qualitative research help us to deliver better primary care services? By Calvin Moorley and Josephine Bardi.
On Twitter @CalvinMoorley @JoBardi01 I have recently been collecting data for a research project on life after stroke funded under the Mary Seacole award for Leadership in Nursing. The data collection method is semi structured indepth interviewing and by its given nature is qualitative research (Robson 2011). My project investigates the lived experience of stroke […]