{"id":1313,"date":"2017-12-25T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2017-12-20T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:22:26","slug":"festive-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/2017\/12\/25\/festive-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Smith, Associate Editor EBN<\/p>\n<p>@EBNursingBMJ<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-14.02.11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1315\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-14.02.11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell it is Christmas day &amp; all at Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) wish you a happy festive period. Many nurses will be providing essential care &amp; support to people with health issues over the festive period, but hope that many you are all having a well-deserved break.<\/p>\n<p>This year, as in previous years, the challenges facing nursing &amp; healthcare have often dominated the news, often focusing on the pressures of delivering care within global financial challenges, &amp; reports of more nurses leaving than joining the profession. Less newsworthy, is the many thousands of nurses, across the globe, who make a difference to their patients\u2019 lives every day. Our weekly blog is a testament to the passion &amp; diverse interests of nurses across the globe, with our guest bloggers raising a range of issues relevant to contemporary nursing practice, often responding quickly to current policy &amp; health directives.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the highlights at ENB in 2017:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Twitter Chat <\/strong>continues to provide a forum to debate nursing issues; successes have included a chat last January that focused on child &amp; family-centre care, which generated over 2.2 million impressions &amp; over 120 participants. The blog can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/\">https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/<\/a> &amp; a summary of the can be access via the Storify at <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/josmith175\/loosing-the-child-s-voice-and-the-captive-mother-a\">https:\/\/storify.com\/josmith175\/loosing-the-child-s-voice-and-the-captive-mother-a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are looking forward to restarting our<strong> Twitter Chats in January 2018<\/strong>, beginning with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Safeguarding patients on the 3rd January 2018, 8-9pm UK time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Learning technologies in nurse education on the 17<sup>th<\/sup> January 2018, 8-9pm UK time<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Our EBN Opinion <\/strong>series is going from strength to strength, which summarises out Twitter chats, and can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/pages\/collections\/ebn_opinion\/\">http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/pages\/collections\/ebn_opinion\/<\/a>. For example the article on <em>Fields of nursing: do we need them, what should they be and when should nurses choose theirs?<\/em> was timely as the nature of preregistration nurse education within the UK currently being debated, <a href=\"http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/content\/20\/2\/35\">http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/content\/20\/2\/35<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Our Research Made Simple series<\/strong> continues to be popular offering a concise summary of key issues in research methods &amp; their practical application; <a href=\"http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/pages\/collections\/ebn_research_made_simple\/\">http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/pages\/collections\/ebn_research_made_simple\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our latest article focuses on case study as a research methodology, <a href=\"http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2017\/11\/16\/eb-2017-102845\">http:\/\/ebn.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2017\/11\/16\/eb-2017-102845<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who took part in out survey, which will be used to plan our next topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-13.11.28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-13.11.28.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-13.11.28.png 757w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/ebn\/files\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-18-at-13.11.28-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Smith, Associate Editor EBN @EBNursingBMJ Well it is Christmas day &amp; all at Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) wish you a happy festive period. 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