This week’s blog has been written by Dr Clare McFeely RM, BSc, MSc, PhD, PgCAP (@ClareUoG) & Tobi Adebayo RN, BN(Hons) from Nursing & Healthcare School (@UofGNurse), School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Black people are more likely to experience mental illness but less likely to access mental health services, […]
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Turning Passion Into Action: A Nurse Psychotherapist-Led Practice and Training Center
Tiffany Decosse BEd (Masters Student) & Stacey Roles RN MScN PhD Stacey Roles, RN, MScN, PhD has a unique story. She took her passion related to health care for those with mental health concerns and developed a business which offers training to health care providers and enhances health care service delivery. Her story offers insight […]
COVID-19 Pandemic: The need to keep decision makers informed of the effects of restrictions on people living in Care Homes
By Emily Pimm @PimmEmily The COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a very difficult and trying time by those who work in the Care Home environment. On reflection, for me as a nurse leader, it has been one of the most challenging experiences of my career. However, I’d like you to now consider how it […]
Social Media and Healthcare Professionals – a new way of communicating?
Daring to utter the words ‘social media’ amongst a group of healthcare professionals can often prompt the same response as the infamous ‘q’ word*. Whilst pained sighs, words of concern or even just uncomfortable silences might be how we respond, are we turning our backs on possible answers to the known failures in communication across […]
WITHDRAWN: “Everything Is Palliative Which Is Not Curative”: Perceptions and a New Understanding of Incurable Cancer
This blog post has been withdrawn owing to significant inaccuracies that the journal believes undermine its reliability. The lead author Hilde Buiting submitted the following inaccurate information to the journal: (i) that Gabe Sonke was an author of the blog, when he was not; and (ii) that Antoni van Leeuwenhoek/Netherlands Cancer Institute was one […]
Sleep deprivation and its relationship with the development of postpartum psychosis
By Lexi Ilgner-McEvoy – Midwife, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Lucy Flatley – Midwifery Lecturer, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds @lucycflatley Postpartum mood disorders are of major clinical and public health concern in the United Kingdom, where suicide is the leading cause of maternal death. The most recent MBRRACE-UK report highlighted a statistically […]
Nursing outside of the box: the work of British Sikh Nurses
By Rohit Sagoo (@RohitSagoo) He is Chair of @NursesSikh The stereotypical view of nurses is a uniformed nurse working in a hospital. Though existing community nurses are also part of the role, grassroots outreach work with organic engagement with community organisations is an innovation beyond the hospital walls. In 2016, British Sikh Nurses (BSN) was set […]
A review of the cancer nursing and AHP workforce within a district general hospital
Vicki Havercroft Dixon (@vjhavercroft), Lead Cancer Nurse – Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholar 2021/22 @FNightingaleF In May 2021 I was successful in starting the next part of my nursing leadership journey by commencing as a Florence Nightingale Foundation leadership scholar. Then in September 2021, after nearly 25 years at the same […]
The power of nurses to impact policy: An imperative
Professor Julia Downing Chief Executive International Children’s Palliative Care Network and Chair of the Policy and Advocacy Committee for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care. As nurses, we are catalysts for change, and as the largest profession within the health service (1) we should have a strong voice, we are trusted bridge builders, […]
Care Leavers – a hidden health inequality
“Children and young people who grow up in care are up to four times more likely to suffer poor health 30 years later than those who grew up with their parents” (1) In 2020/21 there were 80,850 children who were looked after, and 28,440 entered care in that same year (2). Children enter the care […]