Despite primary health care reform in almost every country in the developed world, the most vulnerable often continue to face terrible difficulties in getting the care they need in a seamless and coordinated fashion. This situation is felt most acutely in the last year of life, for those dealing with disability, debilitation and palliation. We […]
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Poor nursing care and staffing levels – what’s the secret formula?
In the UK there is much debate on the standard of nursing care offered in hospitals and in the community. This has been prompted by the Francis Report 2013, which highlighted that there were failures by individual nurses, various levels of management and regulators of nursing. More recently Dr Peter Carter of the Royal College […]
EBN Journal Chat – Managing patient deterioriation – 05/02/14, 8-9pm
Deterioration in acutely unwell patients can occur rapidly and have detrimental effects, therefore it is important to observe, identify and act to improve patient outcomes. In observing the patient you would be expected to monitor and record the following, blood pressure, heart rate, respiration with oxygen saturation, temperature, urine output, fluid intake (accurate fluid balance) and blood glucose level. […]
Quality of life and health related quality of life – is there a difference?
What does evidence tell us about the difference between quality of life (QoL) and health related quality of life (HRQoL) and is it easy to differentiate between these two concepts? This is a question I have been exploring recently as I prepare to carry out a research study which will investigate how quality of life […]
Transition between child and adult services for people with a learning disability and life limiting condition – what does it mean?
Rebecca Haydock- RNLD, PhD student, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield. Contact e-mail u0954407@hud.ac.uk. Having recently commenced a PhD, which is focussing on the transition between child and adult services for people with a learning disability and life limiting condition, I have been deliberating the meaning of transition and exploring issues relating […]
Why not publish?
Most of the time I work as a professor in a nursing department at a university. There is a very high expectation to publish papers and present at conferences and such. The publishing aspect of my work led to editorial work with EBN. The articles and presentations that I put together are largely focused on […]
Evidence Based Nursing …….. not just for Christmas
Happy New year to Evidence Based Nursing readers. I don’t know about you, but in these times of austerity I felt the need to be more discerning than ever when purchasing Christmas gifts for my friends and family. I wanted to get the best I could for them with the resources I had set aside. […]
Festive blog and a time to reflect
The festive season is well underway and often a time to reflect on the year’s achievements and plan for the year ahead. From a personal perspective, I have had an exciting but challenging year. The year started with joining the editorial team at Evidence-Based Nursing and more recently taking up a new post as Senior […]
Cochrane in Nursing: 20 years and counting of evidence-based health care
In 1998, in the first published paper in the first published edition of Evidence-Based Nursing, Anne Mulhall began her article by asking the question ‘Why has research-based practice become so important and why is everyone talking about evidence based health care? But most importantly, how is nursing best placed to maximise the benefits which evidence-based […]
Nurses Against Nurses
I just finished reading and marking some papers from a nursing course. The assignment included interviewing an advanced practice nurse and discussing her scope of practice, workplace, collaborative network and any barriers to practice. It was an interesting assignment. However, one thing that struck me was the term horizontal violence. It is a term that […]