In our third COVID-focused blog this month, Anna Glasgow (Twitter: @anna_glaschu) provides a powerful account of student nurses’ experience at the start of the pandemic in 2020… I was on my penultimate placement of my nursing degree when the pandemic hit Scotland. It really was like a wave. Working in A&E at the time reminds […]
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Children’s Palliative Care in a Pandemic
Our second COVID0-19 Series blog is by Gilda Davis @GMD2019 She is the Senior Lecturer in Children and Young Peoples Nursing, School of Health and Social Wellbeing, University of the West of England; and PhD student, University of Worcester The underpinning philosophy of children’s palliative care is the provision of high quality care for all […]
Covid -19 pandemic redeployment of paediatric cardiac nurse specialists to adult intensive care units – could we do it?
Janet Mallory @malloryjem, Liz Smith @littlenurseliz & Sarah Mead Regan. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) In March 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. 2020 was also declared the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by WHO but has been extended into 2021 to highlight the work and challenging conditions, […]
Preparing for Baby Loss Awareness Week 9-15 October 2021
Sam Collinge, Bereavement Lead Midwife at George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton reflects on her role supporting families who have been affected by pregnancy and baby loss and talks about Baby Loss Awareness Week. Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 Oct) brings together health care professionals, international bereavement charities, support and counselling organisations to give anyone touched by […]
Personal reflections on inner resilience: When the chips are down
This week’s blog is written by Lynn Craig (Twitter: @phd_scphn; LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dr-lynn-craig-412b76147). Lynn is a nurse, currently working in a North East Clinical Commissioning Group as the Strategic Clinical Commissioning Lead. Her portfolio includes Ageing Well, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Falls, Frailty and End of Life (Palliative Care). Lynn is proud to be a […]
Remembering those who have been affected by suicide on World Suicide Prevention Day 2021
By Dr. Jo Bell, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull World Suicide Prevention Day WSPD2021 – IASP promotes worldwide commitment and action to raise awareness of suicide and suicide prevention. It urges us to remember all those who have died by suicide, and reflect upon what it means, and how it affects […]
Reckoning with sexual harassment in nursing
This week’s Blog is written by Leanne Patrick (@LeanneHPatrick) a specialist nurse in domestic abuse and sexual violence. Following “serious allegations of sexual harassment”, The Royal College of Nursing has taken the decision to move its annual congress event online. Although the announcement has come as quite a shock to many members and potentially divided […]
It’s time to recognise the rebirth of telephone nursing
This week’s Blog is written by Ellen Edwards (@EllenCEdwards). Ellen is a Lead Clinical Educator/Trainer for the NHS 111 Wales Programme and one of this year’s Florence Nightingale Foundation (@FNightingaleF) Digital Leadership Scholars. The Covid19 pandemic has shed light on alternative ways of working none more so than in Telephone Nursing and Remote Clinical Decision […]
Student Life: One Nursing Student’s Perspective
Katie O’Sullivan @KatieOS25760094 4th Year Nursing Student, Bachelor of Children’s and General Nursing, Dublin City University What is your main role? My main role as a student nurse is to learn both the theoretical and clinical aspects of nursing. Theoretical input helps prepare us for clinical placements, which will vary widely throughout the 4 years, […]
Flipping the light fantastic- Moving nursing lectures online
There are many words that have been used to describe the last year and a half, unprecedented being one of many, that yes while it describes perfectly the situation, is now an extremely galling word which is overused and we are so over it. Jackson et al. (2020) description is of extraordinary times, and this […]