This week’s blog is written by Amy Hunter (@aeh_health) who currently leads the HEE Clinical Placement Expansion Project in Leeds (@CPEPLeeds), bringing together local practice partners for innovative ‘Future Placements’. Amy is also Chair of the One Workforce Leeds project’s Technology and Innovation Subcommittee, which considers the placement experiences of all learners in Health and […]
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Write for us in 2022!
David Barrett; Deputy Editor, Evidence-Based Nursing Journal At Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) journal we seek to promote high-quality research through the publication of commentaries, summaries and opinion pieces. The journal is dependent on contributions from nurses and the broader healthcare community, and we are always looking for new authors. If you’re interested in writing for us, then there […]
Leadership lessons from Disney’s Peter Pan
“We’re following the leader, the leader, the leader, we’re following the leader wherever he may go. Tee dum, tee dee ……” This week’s Blog is written by Becky Thomas (@Becky_QICTM). Becky is a Senior Nurse for Improvement, she is described as being a creative, innovative, and enthusiastic individual with a great passion for nursing, improving […]
Last Breaths
This week’s blog is written by Dr Sarah Russell (@LearnPEOLC ) who is Lead Nurse for Palliative and End of Life Care at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust as well as being an @FNightingaleF scholar. Diagnosing dying can be challenging. Clinicians have limited accuracy in the prediction of patient survival (Hui et al 2011) and […]
Transforming Younger Stroke Survivor Care in Small Everyday Ways
In this week’s blog, Lauren McMillan and Austin Willett from Different Strokes, a charity supporting younger stroke survivors across the United Kingdom, highlight the experiences of young people living with stroke. Different Strokes supports people of working age through peer support and the majority of staff and volunteers have been personally affected by stroke. For […]
Building connections through separation: challenges in neonatal nursing
This week World Prematurity Day (17th November) sought to raise awareness of the impact that premature birth has on professionals and babies. In recognition of the additional challenges that COVID-19 has brought, this year’s theme was ‘Zero Separation – Act now!’. In this week’s blog Taslima Choudhury, a neonatal intensive care nurse and Birmingham Women […]
The importance of Continuing professional development (CPD) for nurses.
Dr Jane Wray, Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Director of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull. @livinginhope Dr Giuseppe Aleo, Research Assistant, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. @GiuseppeAleo66 @EuropeanCpd Engaging in CPD is central to the professional development of nurses and midwives and necessary to deliver high quality, […]
Supporting Leadership and Positive Learning Cultures through Professional Nurse Advocacy
Julia (@juliafairhall3) is an Assistant Director of Nursing at a community trust. Her work portfolio focuses on quality, patient safety and workforce development Julia’s passions are in Community Nursing, learning and development and psychological safety. Julia is a qualified District Nurse and Queen’s Nurse and is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Emerging leader scholar for 2021. […]
The future of MSc nursing dissertations – a victim of its own success?
In our blog this week, Dr Nicola Roberts (@DrNRoberts) and Mr Ben Parkinson (@ParkinsonBen1) from Glasgow Caledonian University discuss the current changes affecting student research in the NHS and the future for MSc dissertations in nursing. The Masters of Sciences degree (MSc) is becoming increasingly popular with nurses and provides a useful stepping stone into […]
Support for Health Care Professionals with Long Covid returning to work: A national disgrace
Alison Twycross – Editor-in-Chief of Evidence-Based Nursing Journal (@alitwy) Just over a year ago @jakesuett and I wrote a Blog titled: Health Care Professionals with Long Covid: Have they been forgotten? Very little has changed since. Long Covid is a new disease which we know relatively little about. However, we do know that: Long Covid […]