Clinical Nurse Educator Network (CNE Network): celebrating and amplifying the voice of nurse educators

Kathryn Tolfree, Head of FHFT Education Academy, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of CNE Network and Vanda Carter, Programme Manager, Staffordshire University, Deputy Chair of CNE Network   The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2020) anticipate an 8% increase of graduate nurses will be required to support global healthcare demand by 2030. Within the […]

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What does health literacy have to do with children’s nursing?

In this blog for Week 2 of the CYP Series, Professor Lucy Bray @LucyBray9 from Edge Hill University discusses ‘What does health literacy have to do with children’s nursing?’ What does health literacy mean? Health literacy, put simply, is the skills, knowledge and confidence people have to access, understand and use health information to make […]

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Working towards holistic, integrated and personalised perinatal care within a ‘constellation of biases’.

The last blog in our series to focus on maternal inequalities comes from Kaat De Backer1 & Dr Nicola Vousden2 and provides an overview of some of the evident social drivers of maternal inequality within the UK and how this might begin to be addressed with personalised care. For more than two decades, the UK […]

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Empowering Change: The Association of South Asian Midwives Advocating for Equitable Maternity Care

The next blog in our series which focuses on maternal inequalities comes from Nafiza Anwar, one of the founders of the Association of South Asian Midwives and highlights how the group are actively working to drive change. In the vibrant tapestry of South Asian cultures, traditional practices, and deeply rooted taboos, a powerful force is […]

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What is the role of a Consultant Midwife – Lead for inclusivity and why is this needed?

This week’s blog is our first in a series that will look at different aspects of maternity inequalities and comes from Dalvir Kandola, Consultant Midwife- Lead for Inclusivity, University Hospitals of Leicester. This blog looks at the issue of maternity inequality through the lens of a professional role with a remit for driving equality and […]

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Dying and Death in intensive care unit in South Korea

Dr Hye Ri Choi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong. She earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2021. Dr Choi’s research focuses on qualitative approaches in the fields of palliative care and critical care One of my clinical experiences in a South Korean intensive care unit (ICU) that […]

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Early career researcher series: Why people centred research matters?

This week’s blog is by Hannah Harvey, Research assistant: Collaborative Working in Health Research (Hannah.Harvey@bcu.ac.uk) The stereotype of researchers as introverted data analysts couldn’t be further from my experience. Like many in healthcare, I dreamt of being a “helper” since childhood. Yet, research initially seemed distant, a world of statistical tests and jargon. My undergraduate […]

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‘What was I made for?’ Navigating the a clinical academic career as an early career researcher.

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 […]

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Building a Nursing Academic Career in the UK: Reflections from an International Early Career Researcher

This week’s blog is part of the ‘Early Career Researchers (ECRs)’ theme. Dr Catherine Clarissa (Clarissa) is a Lecturer in Nursing (Life Sciences) and a Research Fellow (YARNS Transitions) in Nursing Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. She is an early career researcher having achieved her PhD in 20211. Moving from […]

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