Joanna Smith (@josmith175), Lecturer Children’s Nursing, University of Leeds & Associate Editor EBN I have worked in higher education for 15 years, and draw on over 15 years’ clinical experiences, primarily caring for children with complex needs to inform my teaching and research. I qualified as a registered general nurse in 1986, and registered children’s […]
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EBN Spotlighting the Editorial Team
This week at Evidenced Based Nursing we are spotlighting on the editorial team, watch out for our series of blogs and join in the Twitter chat: Alison Twycross will emphasis the need to improve the use of evidence in practice when managing pain in children; Roberta Heale will focus on the importance of undertaking research […]
Helping patients make decisions: a two-way approach
Sarah Hallahan & Dr Helen Noble, Belfast City Hospital and Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Sarah Hallahan The involvement of patients in decision making is a principle of the National Health Service (NHS) Constitution, which emphasises how patients play a key role in managing their own health and should be actively supported by the NHS to […]
Beat Diabetes: WHO World Health Day, April 7, 2016
@RobertaHeale Associate Editor EBN Every year on April 7, the birthday of the World Health Organization, the organization highlights a global public health concern. In 2016, the theme is diabetes. The organization explains why this in an important theme on their website:http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2016/how-to-get-involved/en/ I can’t imagine meeting anyone in health care who hasn’t had to work […]
Life-long learning is at the core of evidence based nursing
For the last 21 years I have had the honor of teaching Maternal-Newborn Nursing to pre-licensure nurses, firstly in Australia, and now in the United States. As a midwife I have always seen it is a wonderful opportunity to lay important foundations based on a midwifery philosophy, for all nursing students. Even though some pre-licensure […]
World Kidney Day 2016
Dr Helen Noble, Queens University Belfast and Sarah Hallahan, Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland. Kidney problems are common. And the number of people with serious kidney problems, such as kidney disease is growing. World Kidney Day (WKD occurs annually on the 2nd Thursday in March. See; www.worldkidneyday.co.uk. On this day kidney charities, staff and patients organise events […]
Rare Disease & Why it Matters
Ahead of International Rare Disease Day (Monday 29th February 2016) – We are delighted to share a special guest blog from Fiona McLaughlin, volunteer with the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association and Northern Ireland Rare Disease Partnership, on why rare disease matters. […]
World Cancer Day
Today we are delighted to bring you 2 special guest blogs for World Cancer Day. The first blog, from Kristen Maloney, discusses the art of cancer nursing while our second blog, from Professor Sarah Kagan, discusses cancer nursing and older people. […]
Happy New Year from Evidence Based Nursing
As we start a new year it is timely to reflect on our successes in 2015. I have now been editor of Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) for over five years and during that time we have made a number of changes all of which are designed to help nurses and midwives implement evidence into practice […]
Shifting the Paradigm of Prenatal Care: Prenatal Care in Groups
Dr. Gina Novick is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) from the United States. Gina shares her experience both as a clinician and researcher on using different models of pregnancy care to build meaningful relationships between women and pregnancy care providers. Read Gina’s blog here… When I entered midwifery, I was introduced to the midwifery philosophy of […]