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 […]
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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 […]
Empowering patients and families to escalate worries and concerns.
The NHS England pilot project at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust In this week’s blog Debra Ritsperis Head of Quality @DRitsperis, Isolde Newbury ACRT @AcuteResponse, Rebecca Wood Paediatric Matron @becky_RWood, Kaylea Roffe Data Manager @roffe_kaylea, Natalie Tomms Communications Lead, Dr Kerry Gaskin @GaskinKerry, outline how the project team including Suzie Cro Deputy Director of Quality […]
Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death
This week’s blog is by Gilda Davis, PhD Student and Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, University of Worcester @worcester_uni @uow_TCSNM with support from her Supervisory team: Professor Kerry Gaskin @GaskinKerry, Professor Győző Molnár @GyozoMolnar and Dr Jackie Bentley. This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of […]
EBN Spotlight: Cold homes and their impact of mental health
This EBN Spotlight introduces our new podcast (here) with Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan (Senior Research Fellow, University of Otago) and Dr Ben Parkinson (Deputy Editor, EBN). Kimberly is an expert on fuel poverty and health and has published widely on the topic (here). This podcast is an excellent opportunity to hear Kimberly share her knowledge on […]
Exploring Ethnic Minority Bystander CPR: British Sikh Nurses’ #ReStartAHeart Campaign
Rohit Sagoo, Founder and Director, British Sikh Nurses , Community project with the Resuscitation Council UK highlights the importance of the #ReStartAHeart Campaign It is commonly known that the South Asian population have the highest risk of heart disease compared to other populations, and this increases the risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests1. Coronary heart disease […]
Evidence Based Practice Through a Journal Club; How can we promote nursing practice?
By Mudhar Al Adawi, Senior Nurse, Nurse Researcher at Royal Hospital, Oman. Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become a global issue among health care providers due to improvements in the quality of health systems. Acquired knowledge from EBP helps to improve patient outcomes, guide clinical practice, and improve the quality of care for the healthcare consumer […]