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 […]
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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 […]
Global Regeneration and Nursing
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 […]
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 […]