Firstly, the title of this blog is misleading. No group is unreachable. A better term is ‘hard to reach’ as this implies the possibility that they can be reached. Why are they hard to reach? Here are two suggestions. Firstly, the very nature of society and our norms, values and practices exclude certain […]
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Mentoring and supporting student nurses by Suzanne Van Zyl, Senior Sister Critical Care Unit, The London Clinic
I work in a critical care unit and one of my roles is to organize the overall support and mentoring for student nurses on placement on my unit. Having undertaken this role for a number of years. I know that there are different types of learners, auditory (hear), visual (see) and kinesthetic (touch) (Honey and […]
The need to focus on public health nursing by Wendy J Nicholson, Department of Health Public Health Nursing Professional Officer – School and Community Nursing. Twitter @WendyJNicholson
The next EBN TWITTER journal chat will take place on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 8-9 pm (UK time) and focus on public health nursing challenges and roles. Before joining in the Twitter Chat you might like to read the associated Blog Introduction Over the last few years we have been fortunate to work with a number […]
RN Staffing in Hospitals…Are We Asking the Right Question?
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor I’ve been working with a number of students in a nursing masters program who have chosen to study teamwork. One study includes a survey question about the percentage of time that a nurse feels that his/her unit is appropriately staffed. I’ve been thinking about this issue and I think that […]
Can Qualitative research help us to deliver better primary care services? By Calvin Moorley and Josephine Bardi.
On Twitter @CalvinMoorley @JoBardi01 I have recently been collecting data for a research project on life after stroke funded under the Mary Seacole award for Leadership in Nursing. The data collection method is semi structured indepth interviewing and by its given nature is qualitative research (Robson 2011). My project investigates the lived experience of stroke […]
Outcome measurement and valuation – what is it and why do we need it?
Last week I spent a couple of days in York, England exploring outcome measurement and valuation for Health Technology Assessment with academics from the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. People attended from across the world and I sat beside colleagues from many countries including India, Ghana, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, Spain and […]
Why aren’t clinical guidelines used in practice?
The next EBN TWITTER journal chat will take place on Wednesday 25th June 8-9 pm (UK time) and focus on why clinical guidelines aren’t used in practice focusing on children’s pain management. Participating in the EBN Twitter Journal Chat To participate in the EBN twitter chat, if you do not already have one, you require […]
Nursing and the childhood obesity epidemic
Obesity has become an epidemic in the developing world. In the past 33 years the rates of overweight and obese have risen 28% in adults and 47% in children across the globe. This is an increase from 857 million people in 1980 to 2.1 billion people in 2013 http://bit.ly/1oOMvik. It’s a public health emergency. Countries […]
Family-centred care; an aspiration or reality?
The next EBN TWITTER journal chat will take place on Wednesday 11th June 8-9pm and focus on family-centred care. In order to participate in the EBN twitter chat, if you do not already have one, you require a Twitter account, you can create an account at www.twitter.com. Once you have an account contributing is straightforward; […]
The elevator pitch for midwifery care
A few days ago I was sitting on an aircraft on my way to the International Confederation of Midwives 30th Triennial Congress in Prague. In an effort to reduce my pre-flight anxiety, I was chatting to the person beside me, who happened to be the father of three young children, one of whom was only a […]