Dr David Barrett, Director of Pre-Registration Nurse Education, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull There is now an established body of evidence that in any given clinical setting, the greater the proportion of Registered Nurses (RNs) with graduate-level education, the better the patient outcomes. In one of the most far-reaching, comprehensive and […]
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Finding a way through the woods: Equipping student nurses with evidence appraisal skills
Dr David Barrett, Director of Pre-Registration Nurse Education, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull The place of research-mindedness and evidence appraisal in pre-registration nursing curricula has been the subject of much debate and scrutiny over the decades. Though there has long been recognition that care should be evidence-based, providing student nurses with […]
Simulation: Experiential, Safe Learning in Healthcare
Dr Ian Walsh, @Bigianbo – Queen’s University Belfast, School of Medicine i.walsh@qub.ac.uk Simulation is encountered increasingly in healthcare education, throughout both undergraduate and postgraduate arenas. Particularly in key areas such as patient safety, it has evolved significantly from simulated clinical tasks deploying high fidelity manikins to replication of complex clinical scenarios addressing nontechnical skill issues such […]
Dignity in palliative care across the lifespan
Dr Alison Rodriguez, Lecturer Child and Family Health, University of Leeds This week’s EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 20th July between 8-9 pm (UK time) will be hosted by Alison Rodriguez (@ARodriguez339) Lecturer Child and Family health, University of Leeds and will focus on ‘dignity in palliative care across the livespan. Participating in the Twitter […]
Breast feeding research: reflections on the evidence-base
Jo Smith (@josmith175) Associate Editor at Evidence-Based Nursing and Lecturer Children’s Nursing, School of Health Care, University of Leeds. I have always been committed to teaching and promoting that patient care is underpinned by robust evidence. However, it is increasingly challenging to keep abreast of new evidence, let alone the time to appraise and consider […]
When Parkinson’s Disease meets Dementia: a Palliative Research Priority
Dr Clare Mc Veigh (Lecturer in Palliative Care) and Gemma Megarry (Research Volunteer), Northern Ireland Hospice. Parkinson’s disease and Dementia are both diseases in which the brain will become more and more damaged over many years. Parkinson disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by motor symptoms such as resting tremor, rigidity (stiffness), bradykinesia (slowness of movement) […]
Nurse Practitioners in Canada: A Few Steps Forward
As of this month Canada joined the small number of countries across the globe that have legalized assisted suicide. The regulation titled “Medical Assistance in Dying” was hotly debated by the public, media, and all levels of federal government. In this way the legislation wasn’t different from any that are closely tied to personal values […]
Readiness for Change: No Easy Answers
The concept of patient readiness to make positive lifestyle changes has been on my mind lately. I’ve often used Prochaska and DiClemente’s Stages of Change Model to evaluate the stage of change of a person and to guide my approach to health promotion activities for such things as counseling people to stop smoking or implement […]
Creating Nursing Leaders to Translate Evidence into Practice
Yesterday was graduation day for a wonderful group of future nursing and midwifery leaders in our school. We launched 92 new “Yale Nurses” from our Master of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and PhD programs. As our students walked proudly across the stage, supported by the cheers of faculty, family and friends, […]
Advance care planning with people who have kidney failure
Peter O’Halloran, Lecturer, Queens University Belfast A couple of years ago I was discussing the demise of the Liverpool Care Pathway with colleagues in one of our local hospitals. We had just completed some research [1] exploring some of the reasons for the failure of the pathway – one of which was the difficulty clinicians […]