It is now almost two years since I wrote a blog on the introduction of the electronic medical record (EMR) in our local health service.1 It was the day before the new EMR system went ‘live’ and clinicians were nervous about how it would affect their daily lives and, most importantly, communication with patients and […]
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Perinatal mental health disorders
Charlotte Kenyon, Senior Lecturer and Midwife, University of Huddersfield will be leading this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 7th of January between 8-9pm focusing on ‘perinatal mental health disorders’. Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account at www.twitter.com. Once […]
Festive bog and a time to reflect
The festive season is well underway and often a time to reflect on the year’s events. This year, as in previous years, nursing and healthcare has often dominated the news both in terms of local nursing issues, national challenges in the provision of robust and effective health services and global health issues. The weekly Evidence […]
End of year ramblings: Living in a gendered society
I am going to have a moment or two of self-indulgence as I write this Blog and reflect on some of the things I have been pondering this year. As ever it has been an action packed year not only did I move out of London (and so am now a proper commuter). I also […]
Cachexia and it’s impact on people with renal disease:
Dr Joanne Reid and Dr Helen Noble, Lecturers, from Queens University Belfast, will be hosting this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 17th of December between 8-9pm focusing on ‘cachexia in renal disease’ Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account […]
Advance Care Planning: Where Does it Begin? Roberta Heale @robertaheale
Last week’s EBN Twitter chat “End of Life Care; One Chance to Get it Right” highlighted the important issue of the care of those who are dying. As nurses, we are all encouraged to individualize care and to ‘start the conversation’ with patients about their wishes, but where does this start? What does it entail? […]
End of life care – one chance to get it right?
David Garbutt, Lecturer in End of Life Care, from the University of Salford, will be hosting this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 3rd of December between 8-9pm focusing on ‘end of life care’ Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an […]
Do we Promote Children’s Rights in relation to Consenting to and Refusing Treatment?
I am undertaking a module on the sociology of childhood at the Institute of Education. One of the things we have discussed is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (United Nations 1989) which is 25 years old this month. As last week’s Twitter Chat and Blog focused on children’s rights […]
Promoting the rights of the child in nursing and healthcare
Nova Corcoran, will be hosting this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 19th of November between 8-9pm focusing on ‘the rights of the child in nursing and healthcare’ Participating in the twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one you can create an account at www.twitter.com. Once you have […]
How valid and reliable are qualitative studies?
Qualitative work has been identified in some quarters as weak, without rigour, subjective and of little use. For an interesting discussion on this see http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/9/52. In contrast, quantitative research, which aims to delineate phenomena into measurable categories, generalizable to other populations is often viewed as superior. In quantitative research standardised measures are often used in […]