Dr Helen Noble, Queens University Belfast and Sarah Hallahan, Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland. Kidney problems are common. And the number of people with serious kidney problems, such as kidney disease is growing. World Kidney Day (WKD occurs annually on the 2nd Thursday in March. See; www.worldkidneyday.co.uk. On this day kidney charities, staff and patients organise events […]
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Rare Disease & Why it Matters
Ahead of International Rare Disease Day (Monday 29th February 2016) – We are delighted to share a special guest blog from Fiona McLaughlin, volunteer with the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association and Northern Ireland Rare Disease Partnership, on why rare disease matters. […]
World Cancer Day
Today we are delighted to bring you 2 special guest blogs for World Cancer Day. The first blog, from Kristen Maloney, discusses the art of cancer nursing while our second blog, from Professor Sarah Kagan, discusses cancer nursing and older people. […]
Happy New Year from Evidence Based Nursing
As we start a new year it is timely to reflect on our successes in 2015. I have now been editor of Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) for over five years and during that time we have made a number of changes all of which are designed to help nurses and midwives implement evidence into practice […]
Shifting the Paradigm of Prenatal Care: Prenatal Care in Groups
Dr. Gina Novick is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) from the United States. Gina shares her experience both as a clinician and researcher on using different models of pregnancy care to build meaningful relationships between women and pregnancy care providers. Read Gina’s blog here… When I entered midwifery, I was introduced to the midwifery philosophy of […]
World AIDS Day Dec 1: The Time To Act is Now
Roberta Heale Associate Editor EBN, @EBNursingBMJ; @robertaheale Tuesday, December 1 is World Aids Day and the theme this year is ‘The Time To Act Is Now.” Before I concentrate on the present, I find myself reflecting on the past. It’s difficult to remember a world without HIV and AIDS. I do remember the panic in […]
Cadaveric donation: brain stem death
Oluwafunmilayo Ololade JAWONIYI, Helen NOBLE and Kevin GORMLEY. Queens University Belfast. The brain stem is situated at the base of the brain. It regulates most of the automatic functioning systems within the human body upon which life is contingent. These include breathing, maintenance of blood pressure, heartbeat, swallowing, conveying information to and from the brain […]
Restraint in Dementia Care
This week has been one of the biggest in dementia care with 2 important conferences taking place. On Tuesday evening Professor June Andrews hosted our #ebnjc tweet-chat live from the International Dementia Conference in Birmingham and this Thursday our associate editor Gary Mitchell and alumni blogger Joanne Agnelli will co-host a second tweet-chat on dementia […]
The Domino Effect: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor of EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ When I signed up to write this blog, I was given the topic of “women’s health”. There are so many possible topics to choose from, however, women’s health is so intrinsically tied to women’s reproductive issues that makes the most sense to me to discuss an issue […]
Mental Health Reablement
Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day – 10 October. World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. Today we are delighted to welcome our first of two blogs on the […]