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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Christmas Greeting from EBN
On this Christmas Eve all at Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) wish you a happy festive period. Many nurses & health services will be providing essential care & support to people with health issues over the festive period, but we hope that many of you have a well-deserved break. This year, as in previous years, the […]
Tis the Season for….Broken Hearts?
Roberta Heale Associate Editor @robertaheale, @EBNursingBMJ For many of us, our hearts fill with joy as the holiday season settles upon us. For many others, this time of year includes sadness or stresses so strong they can break a heart. I recently travelled to visit a friend who had suffered the loss of her husband […]
Kidney Transplantation and Quality of Life: What We Still Don’t Know.
Dr Clare McKeaveney, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast Kidney transplantation is considered the best treatment choice for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) as it is associated with lower mortality and better psychosocial outcomes when compared to dialysis. It is well established that in most cases, kidney transplantation markedly improves a patient’s quality of […]
Learning to lead – empowering ward managers to drive practice forward
Lesley Gratrix, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull Leadership – influencing a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2016) – is a sought-after commodity within nursing, but what is it, and who are our nursing leaders? Nurse directors and chief nurses can certainly be called leaders; they set the nursing direction […]