Interprofessional Education and Effective Partnerships Between Health and Social Care

Professor Alison Machin, Head of Department, Nursing Midwifery and Health, Northumbria University Dr. Anita Atwal, Associate Professor Interprofessional Working, School of Health & Social Care, London South Bank University   Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 6th March 2019, 8-9pm UK time which will be hosted by Professor Alison Machin, Head of Department, […]

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Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity Evaluation Project

This week’s Blog is written by Dr Candice Pellett OBE, RN, DN, Queen’s Nurse,Project Manager, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. You can follow Candice on Twitter at @candpel. Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity (RDMCC) recently announced an educational partnership with Sheffield Hallam University to undertake an evaluation project to demonstrate the value and impact of 20 Roald Dahl specialist children’s […]

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Rubella: The Next Anti-Vaxxer Victory?

Roberta Heale, Associate Editor, EBN  @robertaheale. @EBNursingBMJ When I started practicing as a primary health care nurse practitioner in 2000, I had no idea of what was to come.  Throughout my program I learned all about the recommended vaccine schedule, the components of each vaccine and the devastating illnesses that we were protecting people from, […]

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Nurses Role in Complex Geriatric Assessment: Twitter Chat Summary

EBN’s Twitter Chat about the Nurses’s Role in Complex Geriatric Assessment was a great discussion of the barriers and facilitators in caring for geriatric patients. The Twitter chat was hosted by Associate Editor Roberta Heale @robertaheale and @EBNursingBMJ with use of #ebnjc. A blog with a helpful introduction to the Twitter Chat can be found […]

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Nurses Role in the Assessment and Complex Geriatric Assessment:Twitter Chat: Wednesday, February 6th at 8pm UK Time.

@EBNursingBMJ Twitter Chat: Wednesday, February 6th at 8pm UK Time with @robertaheale Associate Editor, EBN Society’s across the globe are seeking strategies to address issues related to the aging population.  Yes, people have more medical problems as they age, but health concerns with aging are much more complex than simply disease processes.  Social, functional declines resulting […]

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Mindful Caring: Presence in the Present

Dr Helen Noble, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast Dr Ian Walsh School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast.               The number of older adults with a chronic disease increases annually. Conditions include kidney disease, cardiac disease, dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These lifelong illnesses impact heavily on physical […]

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Expert Nursing Care: Keeping People at Home

Roberta Heale, Associate Editor, EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ The global trend in the developed world is an aging population.  Their care becomes more complex and “older persons accumulate chronic illness as they age”(1). Along with the aging comes higher use of the healthcare system, including increased contact with nurses and nurse practitioners(2).Multimorbidity, frailty, geriatric syndrome added to […]

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Patient Educators: how important is the patient in health care professional education? Amelia Swift and Jo Etherton

A friend recently posted a link to a video showing a stereotypical conversation of an orthopaedic surgeon asking an anaesthetist for help because he wanted to repair a fracture. It went something like this… Orthopaedic surgeon (OS): I need to book a case Anaesthetist (A): what’s the story? OS: There is a fracture, I need […]

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Changing Times – A Time to Reflect

Well it is the start of a New Year, and for many it is a time to reflect, evaluate work/life and embrace new opportunities. Reflection and the capacity for reflexivity are central to nursing practice because they inform clinical decisions leading to improvements in care and patient outcomes. Reflection is associated with developing nursing competence […]

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