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 […]
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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 […]
How do nurses use technology to enhance care?
This week’s EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 4th May between 8-9 pm (UK time) will be hosted by Professor Alison Twycross (@alitwy) who is editor of EBN, and will be lead by Dr David Barrett (@barrett1972), associate editor EBN, from the University of Hull. Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you […]
Introducing Inter-professional Simulation Education
Gail Anderson, Lead Midwife for Education, Queens University Belfast An inter-professional educational initiative was developed within the Schools of Nursing and Midwifery and Medicine. The collaborative aim was to provide interactive workshops focusing on the concepts of normal labour and birth to fourth year medical students and were led by final year midwifery students. […]
Creating tools to improve opportunities for shared decision making during pregnancy
My research in nursing and midwifery has been shaped by a firm belief that all people should have the opportunity to make informed and supported choices about their healthcare, using the best available evidence. I began my research career in the 1990s when I conducted an economic evaluation of a new midwifery early discharge program at […]
The challenges & rewards of combing teaching & learning, research & scholarly activity
Joanna Smith (@josmith175), Lecturer Children’s Nursing, University of Leeds & Associate Editor EBN I have worked in higher education for 15 years, and draw on over 15 years’ clinical experiences, primarily caring for children with complex needs to inform my teaching and research. I qualified as a registered general nurse in 1986, and registered children’s […]