This September is childhood cancer awareness month and today’s blog focuses on the subject of parental grief. Today’s guest blog comes from Sarah Lea. Sarah Lea is a staff nurse in the Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Service at University College London Hospitals and a doctoral research student from the School of Health and Social Care […]
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Parental Grief
This September is childhood cancer awareness month and today’s blog focuses on the subject of parental grief. Today’s guest blog comes from Ciara Barr, a nurse and doctoral research student from the School of Nursing & Midwifery in Queen’s University Belfast. Ciara’s PhD title is: Losing a Child: Multi-national case study to gain better understanding of […]
Infection Control in Care Homes
EBN are delighted to share their latest blog on the important topic of infection control in care homes. This blog coincides with an innovative “Infection Prevention and Control CPD Link Day” which is taking place today, Thursday 17th September 2015, for care home staff in Northern Ireland with specialist input from Rose Gallagher, RCN UK National […]
Living with Leukaemia – The Expert Patient
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Assisted Dying – A Nurse’s Response
Today, Friday 11th September, the Second Reading of the Assisted Dying Bill will take place in the House of Commons. If eventually passed, it will allow a terminally ill adult (prognosis less than 6 months) resident in England or Wales to be supplied with a lethal prescription to be self-administered under the supervision of ‘an attending […]
Improving Quality of Life in Care Homes
Today’s guest blog comes from Sarah Penney @SarahPenney9 at Ulster University @UlsterINHR on the day of the “Improving Quality of Life in Nursing and Residential Homes”. To follow live updates from the event, follow #QCH on Twitter. As a student nurse I always enjoyed my care of older people placements and always felt I would eventually end up […]
Myths, Falsehoods and the Assisted Dying Bill
Dr Kevin Yuill (@historykev) from the Faculty of Education and Society at Sunderland University reflects on the myths and falsehoods surrounding the assisted dying bill. This Friday, Parliament will consider Labour MP Rob Marris’s Assisted Dying Bill. Supporters are confident that Parliament, this time, will pass this legislation that, they say, will alleviate suffering in […]
Words Matter in Dementia Care
EBN are excited to share Joanne Agnelli’s latest blog which focuses on the appropriate use of language in dementia care. Joanne @JoanneAgnelli is a dementia services quality manager from Four Seasons Health Care. This year she has presented her work at the Alzheimer’s Disease International Conference (Perth, Australia), The Alzheimer’s Show (London, England) and is […]
Lauren’s Student Nursing Experience
On Wednesday 2nd September (8pm-9pm UK time) @EBNursingBMJ is co-hosting a twitter chat on student nursing and midwifery with @RCNStudents To celebrate the contributions our student nurses/midwives make – we are sharing blogs of their experiences in practice. Today’s blog is from Lauren James a second year student nurse from Birmingham City University Hello! I’m Lauren. I am 20 years […]
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