This week’s Blog is written by Dr Pauline Milne (@NHSPauline). In it she reflects on the hidden issue of nurse suicide. This is particularly pertinent during the current COVID19 outbreak. Pauline will be exploring ways of better supporting nurses during a Winston Churchill Travel Scholarship later this year (#ChurchillFellow2020) During my NHS career I have […]
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The vital importance of family nursing and midwifery in the UK and Ireland
Authors: Professor Veronica Swallow @SwallowVeronica, Professor Alison Metcalfe @MetcalfeAlison & Professor Veronica Lambert @vLambertDCU @IFNA_UKI Nurses and midwives (nurses) play a major role in supporting people across the life-course. Within multi-disciplinary teams nurses support many patients/clients remotely, but patients/clients rely predominantly on family members for home-based support with self-management. Family nursing provides nursing care to the […]
The importance of pre-conceptual and pregnancy care in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
This week’s blog comes from Helen Janiszewski, a midwife from Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham Local Maternity and Neonatal System and Doctoral Researcher at Coventry University. The importance of good preconceptual care cannot be underestimated. In women with IBD it is important to help educate women who are trying to conceive about the […]
Animals and student well-being – not ‘just a pet’
Julie MacDonald, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull University students are a particular area of focus in relation to promoting mental health and wellbeing. Recent statistics revealed that in 2015/16, over 15,000 students in their first year of study in UK universities reported that they had a mental health problem, compared to approximately 3,000 […]
Lara’s nursing journey and the impact of a mental health problem
Lara McDonald, 2nd Year Student Mental Health Nurse (@lara__mcdonald) Being a student nurse in itself is a huge undertaking; juggling university and placement alongside daily life complications such as money issues and childcare, is not an easy feat. Everyone brings their own experiences with them into this profession, and I, alongside many others, bring an […]
Facing the first day: placements, anxiety, and me….
Laura Greaves, 2nd Year Adult Nursing student (@laurastunurse) For some of my fellow nursing students, the start of a new placement is a time of excitement. For me, it’s a time full of dread. I worry about having to meet new people in an unfamiliar area; I worry about what the journey will be […]
University Mental Health Day 2020
David Barrett, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull Being a University student is an exciting and life-changing experience. However, some of the academic, financial and personal challenges faced by students can have a negative impact on their mental health and wellbeing (APPG, 2015). For healthcare students, the additional challenges posed – including the need […]
Money counts….
Dr Caroline Shuldham OBE, Independent Consultant and Non-Executive Director @CMShuldham Establishing a realistic and accurate budget is one of the foundations when planning projects or research as researchers need to identify the costs of their proposal. It is an intrinsic part of developing a grant application to secure funding, which as the NIHR states […]
The cultural change from mentor to practice assessor/supervisor
This week’s Blog is written by Lorraine Highe, Senior Nurse Education Team, Cambridge University Hosptials. Alongside many placement providers in Sept 2019 the Trust in partnership with our HEIs implemented the new NMC Standards for Supervision and Assessment (NMC, 2018a). Twelve months of display stands, presentations, posters, teaching sessions and drop-in clinics resulted in the […]
A Call to Action: The debate for safe staffing rages on
This week’s blog is by Catherine Best (@CBest_23) and Parveen Ali (@parveenazamali) from Sigma (SigmaTheta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, @sigmanursing). Contemporary nursing issues within the UK herald the need for staffing for safe and effective care (RCN, 2017). This requires the correct number of nurses, with the right level of skill, to […]