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; […]

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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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Pain management: the use of Patient Controlled Analgesic Systems

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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Nursing: Still a Great Career

By Roberta Heale,  EBN Associate Editor @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ I knew I was scheduled to post the blog this week, but I struggled with what to write.  I scanned EBNursing website and Twitter account @EBNursingBMJ as well as other nursing related stories and research articles.  There were so many potential topics that soon my head was […]

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The Freedom to Speak Up review – whistleblowing post Mid Staffordshire

Extreme poor standards of care exposed at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in England made national headlines in 2009 and horrified the public and NHS staff alike. A report led by Robert Francis QC, a barrister with extensive experience of clinical negligence claims exposed appalling treatment of patients and high mortality rates at the hospital […]

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Using health promotion theory with patients

Nova Corcoran, University of South Wales will be leading this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 18th of February between 8-9pm focusing on ‘5 Quick ways to use health promotion theory with patients’. Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account […]

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Acupuncture and My Search for Chronic Pain Treatments

by @RobertaHeale, Associate Editor, EBN What I like about being a nurse practitioner is the ability to provide wholistic care to patients including assessment, diagnosis and treatment.  It brings me great professional satisfaction to not only monitor my patient’s response to treatment of chronic conditions, but also to educate them about their condition and implement […]

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Should we expect nurses to be role models for healthy living?

This week’s EBN twitter chat on Wednesday 4th February between 8-9 pm (UK time) will focus on whether we should expect nurses to be role models for healthy living. This links very nicely with last week’s Blog “Loosing the fight against obesity”. This week’s Blog has been written by Professor Jane Wills from London South […]

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