This blog from Professor Caroline Bradbury-Jones (@jones_bradbury) starts our week-long focus on violence and abuse. Caroline leads a research programme at the University of Birmingham called Risk Abuse and Violence that undertakes national and international research and scholarly work. Caroline was also part of a team who together with colleagues at Nottingham University HELM and […]
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Convening the Global Nursing and Midwifery Workforces: A Report from the 5th Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Conference
Dr Billy Rosa, University of Pennsylvania & Dr Catherine Hannaway, Global Health Consultant, Catherine Hannway Associates Ltd. Before travel restrictions and social distancing requirements were implemented in the UK in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, roughly 280 nurses and midwives from 34 countries gathered in London in early March 2020 for the 5th Commonwealth Nurses […]
e-PROactive care for now and for the future
What qualifies as a good outcome in healthcare? For health systems and professionals, measuring things like lab values, physical performance, mortality rates, length of stay, or readmissions is key and routine practice. But if you are the patient, facing an acute illness or chronic condition, what matters the most? Am I going to live? Are […]
Self-care as a moral responsibility: an update following the twitter chat 8/4/2020
Noirin O’Neill wrote a blog for us, published on March 29th, titled “Self care, public health messaging and moral responsibilities during a global health emergency – a patient perspective”. This was followed by a twitter chat on 8 April 2020. The following is a summary of the main discussions that took place during the […]
Nursing and Post Pandemic Health Challenges
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ This International Year of the Nurse and Midwife has tested us like never before. Although the world has been waiting for a pandemic, and there have been scares (SARS, MERS, Ebola), here we are with COVID 19. Nurses the world over have packed away their celebratory banners […]
Self care, public health messaging and moral responsibilities during a global health emergency – a patient perspective
Blog by Noirin O’Neill As a patient and a person who has survived a life – threatening hemorrhaging form of leukemia in 2004 at 30 years of age, I care deeply about patient involvement, patient empowerment and self-care. I know that self- care will help me as a patient to live better with my health […]
The hidden issue of nurse suicide – how can we better to support our nursing colleagues?
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 […]
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 […]