Alison Twycross (@alitwy), Editor and Joanna Smith (@josmith175) and Roberta Heale (@robertaheale), Associate Editors, EBN Last week we shared our excitement at the prospect of representing EBN, and presenting the successes and challenges of embedding social media as a core EBN activity at the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE), conference. The opening gala was a […]
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Getting ready for INANE
Alison Twycross (@alitwy), Editor and Joanna Smith (@josmith175) and Roberta Heale (@robertaheale), Associate Editors, EBN Being the editor and associate editors of Evidence base nursing places us not only in a privileged position to contribute directly to the quality of journal content and future directions of the journal, but ultimately to support nurses in practice […]
To Tweet or not to Tweet
This weeks EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 15th June between 8-9 pm (UK time) will be hosted by Kirtsen Huby (@KirstenHuby) and Joanna Smith (@josmith175) Lecturer’s in Children’s Nursing, University of Leeds and will focus on ‘to tweet or not to tweet’ in relation to social media and healthcare. Participating in the Twitter chat requires […]
#whywedoresearch
This week’s EBN Twitter Chat will be held on Wednesday the 18th of May between 8-9 pm (UK time) and will be hosted by Kelly Young who is the Children’s Theme Team Lead for the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network (@mrskellyyoung) and will focus on the #whywedoresearch campaign. Participating in the Twitter chat requires a […]
Health care management of advanced, irreversible chronic kidney
Helen Noble, Associate Editor EBN I am a researcher in health services research contributing to health care management of advanced, irreversible chronic kidney disease (CKD). This is evidenced by publications in leading international journals, leadership of successful funding bids, (most recently a multi-institutional NIHR study) and research awards. My research mainly focuses on people with […]
The challenges & rewards of combing teaching & learning, research & scholarly activity
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 […]
Nurse academics rewards and challenges: undertaking research and scholarly activity
This week’s EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday 20th April between 8-9 pm (GMT) will be hosted by Professor Alison Twycross (@alitwy) who is editor of EBN and Dr Joanna Smith (@josmith175) one of the journal’s associate editors and will focus on the following question: What promotes and what stops nurse academics undertaking research & scholarly […]
Managing Pain in Children: Helping to Improve the Use of Evidence in Practice
Alison Twycross (@alitwy), Head of Department for Children’s Nursing and Professor of Children’s Nursing, London South Bank University I have been editor of Evidence Based Nursing since August 2010 and during that time I have worked with a team of associate editors to make the evidence to guide practice more accessible to nurses working in clinical practice. […]
The importance of research about patient care
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN I am working on a number of research projects, but one that is currently taking the forefront is related to advance care planning. Advance care planning has been defined as an ongoing process of reflection, communication, and documentation of a person’s values and wishes for future health and personal […]
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 […]