Vicki Havercroft Dixon (@vjhavercroft), Lead Cancer Nurse – Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholar 2021/22 @FNightingaleF In May 2021 I was successful in starting the next part of my nursing leadership journey by commencing as a Florence Nightingale Foundation leadership scholar. Then in September 2021, after nearly 25 years at the same […]
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Coaching for empowerment and self-management
In this week’s blog, Anya De Iongh, an Occupational Therapist from NHS Ayrshire and Arran, United Kingdom reflects on the powerful role of coaching in encouraging shared decision making, empowerment and self-management and how health professionals can implement this in their practice. I recently saw a patient who clearly demonstrated some change talk, and was […]
Palliative and end of life care as a human right
By Catherine BestOne Chance to Get it Right is a maxim associated with the Liverpool Care of the Dying pathway; a pathway previously used to guide the care of dying patients in the UK healthcare system. Developed in the late 1990s and undergoing incremental changes, until recognised that this pathway represented a number of significant […]
The power of nurses in research: understanding what matters and driving change
The next blog in our series focussing on how research evidence can be implemented into practice, Julie Bayley, Director of the Lincoln Impact Literacy Institute writes about the power of nurses in research and how nurses can support the whole research journey. Research is a funny old beast isn’t it? It starts life as a […]
‘Think, question, change practice’ the transformative potential of an Advanced Practice Nursing group to explore evidence based practice
In a previous blog, Dr Andrew Finney outlined the reasons for developing and the purpose of the Critically Appraised Topics or CATS. A group of General Practice Nurses and ANPs came together with the academics at Keele University to look into clinical questions that were raised from their practice, search and critique the evidence base […]
Facilitating a knowledge mobilisation approach using critically appraised topics to further evidence- based practice
In our next blog from our series on knowledge mobilisation, Bev Jones @ BevJonesCPD and Claire O’Connor @ClaireOLibrary take us through their experiences of using evidence based practice approaches driven by participation in the Magnet4Europe© study evaluating the impact of the Magnet Model©. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) is one of sixty hospitals, across 5 […]
Promoting true evidence-based practice using critically appraised topics (CATs).
The next blog from our series on knowledge mobilisation comes from Dr Andrew Finney, Senior Lecturer of Nursing at Keele University. This blog introduces the use of Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) in community nursing. Dr Andrew Finney is a Senior Lecturer at Keele University’s School’s of Nursing and Midwifery, and Medicine. Andrew holds the title […]
How can we use knowledge mobilisation to improve care?
During October, EBN will be bringing you a series of Blogs on Knowledge Mobilisation and other approaches to implement research into practice. Our first Blog asks, ‘What is Knowledge Mobilisation?’ and then provides an example of how this approach can be applied. Fiona Cowdell is a Professor of Nursing and Health Research at Birmingham City University […]
Day in the life…. of a nurse in Perinatal Mental Health Services
In our latest ‘Day in the Life of Series’ showcasing the diversity of roles within learning disability nursing, Lydia Marsden from Hywel Dda Health Board talks about her role as a nurse in Perinatal Mental Health. What is your job title and your main role/responsibilities? I am currently working as a nurse in Perinatal Mental […]
Are we teaching pre-registration nurses the right skills for working in clinical practice: a respiratory perspective
This week’s blog has been written by Dr Nicola Roberts (@DrNRoberts), Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, who raises the question whether pre-registration nursing programmes are teaching the right skills for contemporary clinical respiratory practice. Our recent study examined what respiratory care content is being taught in UK pre-registration nursing programmes in approved education institutions. The […]