This weeks’ blog is by Helen Needham, Senior Lecturer and Practice lead for Learning disability nursing, Birmingham City University (helen.needham@bcu.ac.uk) I am currently conducting research focusing upon the use of simulated patients in the education of nurses around the healthcare needs of people with a cognitive impairment and breaking bad news to people with a […]
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Unveiling the Future of Healthcare Education: The Power of Interprofessional Collaboration
This weeks’ blog is from Selena Gilles (sg141@nyu.edu) DNP, ANP-BC, CNEcl, ANEF, FNYAM, FAANP, FAAN, Natalya Pasklinsky, DNP, FNP-BC, ACNP-Bc, CHSE, FNYAM, and Beth Latimer, DNP, GNP-BC, CHSE of New York University (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing www.nursing.nyu.edu In a world where healthcare complexities abound, the need for effective collaboration has never been more […]
The challenges of Implementing evidence into practice: The case of lifting cushion use in care homes
This weeks’ blog is by Fiona Cowdell, Professor of Nursing and Health Research (fiona.cowdell@bcu.ac.uk) and Judith Dyson, Professor of Implementation Science (judith.dyson@bcu.ac.uk) Preventing falls in care homes is policy and practice gold standard. But when falls happen, the protocol for many care homes in the UK is to call an ambulance. Sometimes an older […]
Unveiling the Integrated Community Care Network
This weeks’ blog is written by Helen Lord (H.Lord@bolton.ac.uk), Joey Weber, Joanne Smith, Katie, Bannister, Phil Downing and Hayley Carr from the University of Bolton #BoltonUni The surge in complex health and social care challenges has brought to light inefficiencies within existing systems, as noted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2013 1. In […]
Early career researcher series: Why people centred research matters?
This week’s blog is by Hannah Harvey, Research assistant: Collaborative Working in Health Research (Hannah.Harvey@bcu.ac.uk) The stereotype of researchers as introverted data analysts couldn’t be further from my experience. Like many in healthcare, I dreamt of being a “helper” since childhood. Yet, research initially seemed distant, a world of statistical tests and jargon. My undergraduate […]
‘What was I made for?’ Navigating the a clinical academic career as an early career researcher.
This week’s blog is part of the ‘Early Career Researchers'(ECRs) theme. Dr Gearóid Brennan is the Lead Psychiatric Liaison Nurse at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is an early career researcher, having achieved his PhD in 2021. Gearóid reflects on his journey of being an ECR while maintaining a clinical career and offers some […]
Building a Nursing Academic Career in the UK: Reflections from an International Early Career Researcher
This week’s blog is part of the ‘Early Career Researchers (ECRs)’ theme. Dr Catherine Clarissa (Clarissa) is a Lecturer in Nursing (Life Sciences) and a Research Fellow (YARNS Transitions) in Nursing Studies, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. She is an early career researcher having achieved her PhD in 20211. Moving from […]
Being a Mental Health Nurse and PhD student: Working, studying and evolving identity
This weeks’ blog, and the first as part of our Early Career Researcher theme, is from Zoe Dodd. Zoe is a part time PhD student, a registered Mental Health Nurse and also works full time in a leadership role in a Mental Health Trust. Since starting my PhD in 2020, there has been a significant […]
EBN Highlight – Early Career Researchers
In this month’s ‘EBN Highlight’ Deputy Editors Jane Wray and Lisa Kidd introduce our theme for March and April 2024 – Early Career researchers (ECRs). During the next few months, we will be sharing blogs and journal content related to this theme and this will include an upcoming Editorial by Dr Helen Sisson and an […]
Celebrating Mental Health Nurses’ Day 2024
Wednesday 21 February 2024 in the UK marked its 6th annual Mental Health Nurses’ Day. The day promotes and celebrates the unique and valuable role played by mental health nurses to health and wellbeing. There are approximately 300,000 mental health nurses worldwide and they represent the largest proportion of staff in the mental health care […]