Kathryn Tolfree, Head of FHFT Education Academy, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of CNE Network and Vanda Carter, Programme Manager, Staffordshire University, Deputy Chair of CNE Network The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2020) anticipate an 8% increase of graduate nurses will be required to support global healthcare demand by 2030. Within the […]
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Challenges for children’s palliative care
In this week’s blog, the 5th and final of our CYP series, Gilda Davis @GildaMDavis, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the University of Worcester discusses challenges affecting children’s palliative care. When considering the future of children’s palliative care within the UK, it is recognised that an equitable palliative care service is needed (Together for […]
Looking closely at the big picture: Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Looking closely at the big picture: Children and Young People’s Mental Health In this week’s blog, the fourth in our Children and Young People (CYP) series, Yasmin Smith, Lecturer in Nursing and Mental Health and Rebecca Reynolds @becksreynolds, Lecturer in Children’s Nursing from Plymouth University discuss the big picture in CYP’s Mental Health. Problems […]
Challenges for paediatric critical care provision.
In this week’s blog, and the 3rd in the CYP series Julie C Menzies @jmenzies1, Rebekah Overend, Lyvonne N Tume @lyvonnetume, discuss ‘Complexity, commissioning, capacity and capability: challenges for paediatric critical care provision’. Children and young people (CYP) represent a third of our population. Sustaining and improving their health and wellbeing is therefore a key […]
What does health literacy have to do with children’s nursing?
In this blog for Week 2 of the CYP Series, Professor Lucy Bray @LucyBray9 from Edge Hill University discusses ‘What does health literacy have to do with children’s nursing?’ What does health literacy mean? Health literacy, put simply, is the skills, knowledge and confidence people have to access, understand and use health information to make […]
Developing cultural humility in CYP nurses through decolonisation of the curriculum
In this week’s blog, the first in the Children and Young People’s (CYP) Series for September, CYP Nursing Lecturers from Birmingham City University @MyBCU: Laura Maguire @Laurama37358999, Kathryn Sethi @katsethi, Emma Tonks @EmmaT31, Waheeda Zaman discuss Cultural humility in CYP nurses As patient populations become more diverse, the intersection of multiple identities increasingly requires nurses […]
Highlight Blog: Children are our future. Challenges influencing nursing care of Children and Young People
In this week’s ‘EBN Blog’ Associate Editor Kerry Gaskin @GaskinKerry will introduce our theme for September 2024 – ‘Children are our future – Challenges influencing the future of nursing care of CYP’. Over the next five weeks, EBN will present a series of blogs and journal content relating to global challenges facing children and Children […]
Clinical supervision for the nursing and midwifery workforce in Scotland: Getting ready for a ‘once for Scotland’ approach
In this week’s blog, Christine Strange discusses NHS Scotland’s approach to ensuring all nurses and midwives can access high-quality clinical supervision. Participating in clinical supervision is fundamental to supporting me to develop within my role. In Scotland it is a national ambition that every nurse and midwife should have access to clinical supervision whatever […]
Nurses need nurses for their resilience and wellbeing
This week’s blog is written by Dr Judith Benbow, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, Professor Danny Kelly, Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research, Cardiff University and Professor Aled Jones, University of Plymouth. Nurses seek help from other nurses as their primary coping strategy. Notwithstanding patients’ needs for more nurses, crucially nurses need more nurses […]
Why are Nurses at Particular Risk of Chronic Exhaustion?
This week’s blog comes from Alison McGrath, a nurse now working as an independent wellbeing coach, and explores whether nurses may be at risk of chronic exhaustion. Why do nurses smoke? Because the doctors have eaten all the chocolate. So went the joke when I was a student nurse in the early 1990s. We all […]