Dr Helen Noble, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery and Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast We live and work in a busy, often demanding world and face a number of challenges with potential to increase stress and impact our wellbeing. Among these challenges are […]
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Fear of childbirth and tokophobia
Catriona Jones, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull (@Free_wheeler68) Fear of childbirth is conceptualised along a continuum, with women who are almost free of fear at one end, and women with severe or disabling fear (known as tokophobia) at the other. For some women, severe fear of childbirth can […]
Registered Nurse Retention – the Untapped Potential of Retaining Experienced Nurses
This week’s Blog is written by @NHSPauline. There are currently an estimated 40,000 nursing vacancies across the country (NHS 2019) and if these trends continue the NHS in England could reach a shortfall of 108,000 full time equivalent nurses by 2028/29 (Health Foundation et al 2019). In addition to these significant nursing workforce shortages, the […]
Using big data to improve the patient journey in cancer care
Dr Amanda Lee; Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull (Twitter @amandaleehull) Over recent years, healthcare has been collecting a variety of ‘big data’ – sets of information on a variety of diseases, treatments, and outcomes. These are useful to inform research and clinical interventions, to provide […]
The Question(s) of Frailty….
Dr Fiona McGowan is a Senior Lecturer at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, which is home to a rich environment for teaching and research into healthy aging. We are all living longer and societies globally are ageing. In the UK, the population of those aged over 90 is growing faster […]
Evidence based practice is in danger from litigation: the case of the American Pain Society
Amelia Swift is a nurse lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a member of Council for the British Pain Society. The National Health Service constitution sets out the patient’s right to safe, effective and evidence-based care (1). Professional codes of conduct such as the Code (2) for nurses and midwives make it clear […]
Twitter Chat Summary – Quality of Life in Dementia
We were joined for last night’s #EBNJC Twitter chat by Professor Terri Kean, Associate Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. The chat focused on quality of life in dementia care. The chat was prompted following a recent paper by Dewitte et al (2018) that compared assessments of quality of life by people with dementia, and their […]
Quality of life in Dementia
This weeks EBN Twitter chat is on Wednesday 17th July (8-9pm UK time) and will be discussing quality of life (QOL) in people with dementia. It is often assumed that a diagnosis of dementia is inevitably associated with a reduced QOL. Certainly, dementia makes a big impact on functional and cognitive status and this […]
New Thinking About the Annual Health Exam
Roberta Heale Associate Editor, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ When I became a nurse practitioner in family practice twenty years ago, the annual health exam for every patient was standard care. I remember thinking that it seemed to be unnecessary to examine healthy people without any symptoms or risk factors. Research has shown this to be true and […]
Working to prevent suicide: the role of nurses and other healthcare professionals
Kirsty Fishburn (@spiderlegsmooni); Programme Director, Mental Health Nursing, University of Hull This week’s EBN Twitter Chat is on Wednesday 3rdJuly (8-9 pm UK time) and will explore healthcare professionals’ roles and responsibilities in the prevention of suicide. Suicide prevention is a global priority. Approximately 1 in 5 people have thought about suicide at some point […]