Marcus Wootton BSc (Hons) BN (Hons) RN (A) RN (C)Senior Lecturer at London South Bank offers an insightful snapshot of nursing in Uganda The learning day in Uganda starts in a large lecture theatre; the room is dimly lit with only two of the fourteen strip lights functioning, it isn’t cold but the sky is […]
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Improving Care: One Small Step at a Time
Kirsten Huby, Lecturer in Children’s Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds @KirstenHuby As healthcare and patient needs change, so too must nursing and nurses to meet new and increasingly complex needs. The move to an all-graduate profession is critical to ensuring the nursing workforce is prepared to meet these new demands and challenges (RCN, […]
Focus on Children’s Nursing
Jo Smith @josmith175 As the year closes, this month at Evidence Based Nursing we have a dynamic series of blogs focusing on different fields of nursing practice. It is my pleasure, as both a children’s nurse and one of the Associate Editor of Evidence-Based Nursing, to introduce you to this weeks bloggers who are […]
World AIDS Day Dec 1: The Time To Act is Now
Roberta Heale Associate Editor EBN, @EBNursingBMJ; @robertaheale Tuesday, December 1 is World Aids Day and the theme this year is ‘The Time To Act Is Now.” Before I concentrate on the present, I find myself reflecting on the past. It’s difficult to remember a world without HIV and AIDS. I do remember the panic in […]
Parenting Children with Intellectual Disabilities
We are delighted to introduce Carole Beighton, EBN’s guest blogger this week. Carole Beighton is a multi-professional facilitator teaching at St Georges NHS Trust. She is an RGN and an RNLD and a part time doctoral research student from the School of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University. She is the parent […]
Person-Centred Care
On Wednesday 18th November (8pm-9pm GMT) we are delighted to host our final #ebnjc tweet-chat of the year on person-centred care in nursing and healthcare with Professor Brendan McCormack. Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account. If you do not already have one you can create an account at Twitter. Once you have an […]
Cadaveric donation: brain stem death
Oluwafunmilayo Ololade JAWONIYI, Helen NOBLE and Kevin GORMLEY. Queens University Belfast. The brain stem is situated at the base of the brain. It regulates most of the automatic functioning systems within the human body upon which life is contingent. These include breathing, maintenance of blood pressure, heartbeat, swallowing, conveying information to and from the brain […]
Restraint in Dementia Care
This week has been one of the biggest in dementia care with 2 important conferences taking place. On Tuesday evening Professor June Andrews hosted our #ebnjc tweet-chat live from the International Dementia Conference in Birmingham and this Thursday our associate editor Gary Mitchell and alumni blogger Joanne Agnelli will co-host a second tweet-chat on dementia […]
Living Well With Dementia in the 21st Century
On Tuesday 3rd November, 8pm – 9pm (GMT), EBN will be co-hosting a very special twitter-chat live from the International Dementia Conference taking place in Birmingham, England. Click here for the conference programme and follow #dementiacare15 for live updates on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th November. Our twitter-chat will be around the topic of […]
The Domino Effect: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor of EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ When I signed up to write this blog, I was given the topic of “women’s health”. There are so many possible topics to choose from, however, women’s health is so intrinsically tied to women’s reproductive issues that makes the most sense to me to discuss an issue […]