Roberta Heale Associate Editor EBN, @EBNursingBMJ; @robertaheale Tuesday, December 1 is World Aids Day and the theme this year is ‘The Time To Act Is Now.” Before I concentrate on the present, I find myself reflecting on the past. It’s difficult to remember a world without HIV and AIDS. I do remember the panic in […]
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Cadaveric donation: brain stem death
Oluwafunmilayo Ololade JAWONIYI, Helen NOBLE and Kevin GORMLEY. Queens University Belfast. The brain stem is situated at the base of the brain. It regulates most of the automatic functioning systems within the human body upon which life is contingent. These include breathing, maintenance of blood pressure, heartbeat, swallowing, conveying information to and from the brain […]
Restraint in Dementia Care
This week has been one of the biggest in dementia care with 2 important conferences taking place. On Tuesday evening Professor June Andrews hosted our #ebnjc tweet-chat live from the International Dementia Conference in Birmingham and this Thursday our associate editor Gary Mitchell and alumni blogger Joanne Agnelli will co-host a second tweet-chat on dementia […]
The Domino Effect: Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor of EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ When I signed up to write this blog, I was given the topic of “women’s health”. There are so many possible topics to choose from, however, women’s health is so intrinsically tied to women’s reproductive issues that makes the most sense to me to discuss an issue […]
Mental Health Reablement
Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day – 10 October. World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. Today we are delighted to welcome our first of two blogs on the […]
Mental Health Awareness week – A student led session exploring contemporary themes related to anxiety and depression
Paul Canning, Karen Galway, Jean Nugent, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queens University Belfast Year 2 BSc. Mental Health Nursing Student Volunteers Mental Health Awareness week is a national campaign promoted by the Mental Health Foundation that runs every year in the month of May. Queens University Belfast (QUB) Staff Wellbeing Team plan and […]
First Do No Harm….Lowering One Risk and Increasing Another
Roberta Heale, EBN Associate Editor, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ Implementation of evidence into practice is the gold standard for healthcare. Ultimately, we want patients to have the best possible health outcomes, but nothing is without risk and balancing the risk is not always easy. Take cardiac prevention for example. The ongoing battle to prevent cardiac events led […]
Practice Experience and Implementation of Evidence
By Roberta Heale @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ A few months ago I wrote about wholistic care and the implementation of acupuncture into my practice. I completed the first course in March and, this past weekend, just completed the second. I’ve taken an anatomical acupuncture program, which translates acupuncture from Traditional Chinese Medicine into a western medicine, anatomical […]
Shape of Caring Review: Impact for Children’s Nursing Education
Alison Twycross (@alitwy), Editor and Jo Smith (@josmith175), Associate Editor of Evidence-Based Nursing will be leading this week’s ENB Twitter Chat (#ebnjc) on Wednesday 20th May between 8-9pm UK time focusing on the recently published Shape of Caring Review: Raising the Bar (2015) (available from: http://bit.ly/1FQKGsU) and the implications for the education of children’s […]
Ordinary to extraordinary: skilled communication in nursing
Megan Blinn and Helen Noble Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Communication is generally acknowledged as essential to nursing practice and managing clinical situations in challenging clinical environments, working within a system that serves increasing numbers of people with complex health needs using static or dwindling resources. There are many definitions of communication in the nursing […]