Megan Blinn and Helen Noble Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Communication is generally acknowledged as essential to nursing practice and managing clinical situations in challenging clinical environments, working within a system that serves increasing numbers of people with complex health needs using static or dwindling resources. There are many definitions of communication in the nursing […]
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As an Australian midwife who has been teaching maternal-newborn nursing for over 22 years, I am still excited to hear students share their clinical stories with each other as they learn about maternity care. Now that I am in the United States, students’ stories reflect a unique and different culture. Each year my students visit […]
Learning disability nurse education: the impact on patent care
By Niall Dew, Head of Practice Education for the Department of Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield will be leading this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 15th of April between 8-9pm UK time focusing on ‘the impact of learning disability nurse education on patent care.’ Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; […]
Healthcare and the LGBT Community
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale, @EBNursingBMJ In December, EBN’s Editor, Alison Twycross, wrote about living in a gendered world. I recently watched a television segment that included an interview with US ex-Navy Seal, Kristen Beck, who lived as Christopher Beck throughout most of her life before revealing her feminine identify http://bit.ly/1HnV7F2 The segment […]
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Sharon Wood, Lecturer in Pain Care, University of Leeds will be leading this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 1st of April January between 8-9pm UK time focusing on ‘the use of patient controlled analgesic systems’. Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can […]
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Is it time to change our approach to end of life education in undergraduate nursing?
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