By Suzi High, KT Shepherd and Laura Green Given the close connection between the environment and the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations, it is surprising that the issue of climate change is not higher up the nursing agenda. It is often the most vulnerable in our communities who are most susceptible to the […]
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Summary of a twitter chat: Autism in healthcare: multiple perspectives.
This was a fascinating insight into a number of different perspectives on autism in healthcare. This chat follows on from the previous blog. One of the first tweets into the chat was about how easy it is for someone described by healthcare professionals as ‘somewhere on the spectrum’ fell between the gaps when transitioning […]
Autism and healthcare: multiple perspectives
This blog accompanies a twitter chat on 19 June 8pm UK time. Joining a twitter chat is easy – use your usual provider and follow #ebnjc. Remember to insert #ebnjc in all your tweets for that. Autism is not one distinct ‘thing’: it is social construction that is often described in a neurobiological way and […]
Healthcare and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary collaboration – Summary of Twitter Chat
The fascinating twitter chat this week explored the relationships between healthcare, the arts and humanities. It was facilitated by Mr Ian Walsh, a surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast @BigIanbo #ebnjc Very quickly the chat highlighted related arts and health research. One study brought creative writing, objects, archaeology into thinking about death, dying […]
Healthcare and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary collaboration
Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 5th June 2019, 8-9pm UK time which will be hosted by Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. It will focus on arts in […]
We need smart, well-educated nurses – no ifs, no buts
As I write this Blog, RCN Congress is taking place and nursing is in the news in the UK for the right reasons. For example, a call for the safe staffing legislation in all four UK countries as well as highlighting the need to review how nurse education is funded to help address the current […]
Fatigue in patients on haemodialysis, who cares?
Zakariya Al Naamani, PhD student, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast. Living with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and receiving haemodialysis treatment is a life challenging task. ESKD causes anaemia, electrolyte imbalances, uraemia and accumulation of waste products. Despite increased survival rates, patients who receive haemodialysis are required to adjust their life to […]
Summary of Twitter Chat – Action on Stroke Month: priorities in the management of, and research on, stroke.
The EBN Twitter chat on Wednesday 15th May was hosted by @EBNursingBMJ and Associate Editor, Lisa Kidd, as part of our special week of activities to mark Action on Stroke Month. The chat (#ebnjc) focussed on clinical priorities in the acute and longer-term management of stroke, how to involve and work with stroke survivors and […]
Involving the lived experience in research
In the fourth of our blogs for Action on Stroke month, Phil Collis, PPI Lead and “bloke with a stroke” shares his passion to ensure that the lived experience remains firmly at the heart of future stroke research and improvements in care. A bloke with a stroke… I became interested in health research following a […]
Bladder rehabilitation in stroke survivors: why don’t nurses do it?
In our fourth blog of the week, Jo Booth, Professor of Rehabilitation Nursing at Glasgow Caledonian University focusses on one of the longer-term issues that stroke survivors face; urinary incontinence and urges nurses to engage in supporting recovery of bladder function. Urinary incontinence after stroke Urinary incontinence (UI) affects around half of all acute stroke […]