This week’s Blog is written by our Editor-in-Chief Alison Twycross (@alitwy) and Dr Jake Suett, a staff grade doctor in Intensive Care, (@jakesuett) who both have suspected “Long Covid”. In the Blog they discuss what Long Covid is and discuss some of the employment related issues health care professionals may encounter. #CountLongCovid @EBNursingBMJ As of […]
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It’s time to speak up: sexual safety on inpatient mental health units
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 […]
Evidence Based Practice in the Time of COVID… Back to Basics
Roberta Heale, Deputy Editor for Social Media for EBN, @robertaheale, @EBNuringBMJ The first blogs written for EBN in 2012 were about the use of evidence in practice. In fact, the inaugural blog described that although evidence-based nursing is the standard of our care, there are many barriers, some of which include difficulty finding, or lack […]
Clinical Research Delivery Teams and the Covid response: defining a new specialty
This week’s blog comes from Nicolas Aldridge, Lead Nurse for Research and Development at UHCW NHS Trust and a NIHR 70@70 Research Leader. He has worked in research for past 13 years and is passionate about increasing research opportunities for patients, and promoting a clinical career in research for nurses and midwives. The emergence and […]
Tips for Getting the Most of your Online Classroom Experience
Roberta Heale, Deputy Editor Evidence Based Nursing @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ As summer draws to a close during this strangest of years, many nursing students and instructors are getting ready for the new academic year. It will most likely be quite different from other years with a great deal of content delivered online instead of face-to-face. I’ve […]
Resilience in nurses working in respiratory clinical areas during the COVID pandemic
In this week’s blog, Dr Nicola Roberts (@DrNRoberts) discusses some of the research that she and colleagues have been undertaking focussing on the resilience of nurses working in respiratory care during the COVID pandemic. Dr Nicola Roberts, is a Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK and her research looks at improving how […]
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 […]
COVID19 Infodemic – A Tsunami of Health Literacy Issues
In this week’s blog, Dr Evelyn McElhinney (@evmcelhinney), Senior Lecturer in Advanced Practice at Glasgow Caldedonian University and the Chair Elect of Health Literacy UK (@literacyhealth) discusses the impact of the current pandemic on health literacy needs and how we as nurses can help. In February 2020 at the Munich Security Conference Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
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 […]
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Nurse Practitioner (NP), Advanced Clinical Practice Nurse (ACPN) or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN): What’s in a title? The ICN Guidelines on Advanced Practice Nursing (APN).
By Jane Wray, Associate Editor EBN @livinginhope The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has recently updated its position statement on Advanced Practice Nursing (APN)1, an acknowledgment of the significant evolution of this role since its previous statement of 2008. Growing demands on healthcare as a consequence of changing population health needs coupled with service […]