By Haley Jackson, Research and Clinical Effectiveness Nurse, Humber Teaching Foundation NHS Trust, Email: haley.jackson@nhs.net, Twitter: @haleyj102 In my recent evidence and practice article1 I explored current practices around sexual safety in mental health inpatient services and discussed a need for change. People admitted to or working in hospital or care settings should be provided […]
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All hands on deck? Clinical Educators supporting the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic
Vicky Williams is an Associate Director of Nursing for Education and Research at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust. Her role has professional responsibility for education, research, professional and practice development, advanced clinical practice and non-medical prescribing. Her clinical experience is in care of the elderly, clinical education and advanced clinical practice roles. She […]
Why haven’t we learned from past pandemics?
Amelia Swift (@nurseswift) is a senior lecturer in nursing at the University of Birmingham and an associate editor of Evidence Based Nursing. The world has experienced many devastating epidemics and pandemics in recent history. There have been three previous influenza pandemics in the 20th Century in 1918, 1957 and 1968. The 1918 pandemic caused the […]
Inequality of maternal morbidity in a global pandemic; a clear signal for urgent action
Data emerging from the last three months are highlighting that health inequalities prevail even in global pandemics. This appears to be as true regarding morbidity for pregnant women, as it is out-with a pandemic. Alongside the wider debates about COVID-19 and the observed disparity of impact by ethnicity, we should ensure maternal morbidity and mortality […]
Authentic Leadership
Catherine Best (@CBest_23) is a public health nurse and an Honorary Visiting Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Bradford, whose research focuses on health inequality. She is a member of the Phi Mu chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, and organisation that works to develop nurse leaders to improve healthcare everywhere. Catherine has written for […]
Summary of a twitter chat: Autism in healthcare: multiple perspectives.
This was a fascinating insight into a number of different perspectives on autism in healthcare. This chat follows on from the previous blog. One of the first tweets into the chat was about how easy it is for someone described by healthcare professionals as ‘somewhere on the spectrum’ fell between the gaps when transitioning […]
Healthcare and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary collaboration – Summary of Twitter Chat
The fascinating twitter chat this week explored the relationships between healthcare, the arts and humanities. It was facilitated by Mr Ian Walsh, a surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast @BigIanbo #ebnjc Very quickly the chat highlighted related arts and health research. One study brought creative writing, objects, archaeology into thinking about death, dying […]
A work in progress
In our second blog of the week, Shani Shamah, who has had a stroke and now works as an Engagement and Involvement Specialist and a Stroke Advocate and Counsellor from London, describes her experiences and her current involvement in research related activities. Opening the door to the future… My life is still a work in […]
Wellness of the Nursing Workforce
By Jessica Sainsbury (@JessLSainsbury). This week’s @EBNursingBMJ Twitter Chat will be hosted by the @StNurseProject. To join in or follow the chat please add #ebnjc and #StNProject to your tweets. The health and well-being of any workforce, yet alone a nursing workforce, is a vast topic that we will find tricky to cover in an […]
Mindful Caring: Presence in the Present
Dr Helen Noble, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast Dr Ian Walsh School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. The number of older adults with a chronic disease increases annually. Conditions include kidney disease, cardiac disease, dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These lifelong illnesses impact heavily on physical […]