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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
Non-Pharmacological Approaches for Alleviating Distress in Dementia Care
Gary Mitchell, Dementia Care Advisor and Joanne Agnelli, Dementia Services Quality Manager for Four Seasons Health Care, will be leading the next ENB TWITTER chat on Wednesday 21st January 8-9pm UK time, and will focus on non-pharmacological approaches for alleviating distress in dementia care. In order to participate in the EBN twitter chat, if you do not […]
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 […]
Ebola – a global health problem?
I will be hosting this week’s ENB twitter chat on Wednesday the 20th of August between 8-9pm focusing on ‘Ebola viral disease – a global health problem?’ 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 an account […]