The Nursing and Midwifery Council has recently published consultation documents outlining a programme of change of education so that future nurses and midwives are equipped to work across health and social care. This chat will consider the consultation from a community nursing perspective to prepare you to respond to the consultation whether it as an individual or as a group.Prior to the chat you may wish to access the relevant documents:https://www.nmc.org.uk/education/education-consultation/Some of the questions we will explore are:What does person centred care mean in the community?What nursing procedures are required of the registered nurse in the community?What relationship and communication skills are required to nurse in the communit ...

Join us for another #WeStudents night, this time discussing and sharing tips for interviews, particularly for student nurses in their final year on the hunt for their very first newly qualified nurse post! As always, all healthcare professionals are welcome to join us on this evening and weigh in on what you think makes a good interview, perhaps even sharing some insight into choosing that perfect new job role at the end of a three-year degree!  ...

On Thursday 29th June WeAHPs will be discussing post-stroke fatigue with Karen Thomas, Chartered Physiotherapist and PhD Researcher, based at the University of Cambridge.This tweetchat will explore the aspects encompassing the physiological and psychological fatigue experienced following stroke. Post-stroke fatigue impacts upon stroke survivors' quality of life, rehabilitation and level of social participation as well as being associated with reduced return to work and increased mortality when itbecomes persistent.There is no gold standard consistently used definition, outcome measure or treatment approach for this disabling ‘invisible handicap’. To progress within the field we need to know to a far greater degree about both patients and he ...

June 22nd saw the release of a new resource to help gather experiences of care from women and families who have experienced maternity bereavement.  This multidisciplinary discussion aims to explore this resource and how it can help to improve care.           The "Gathering feedback from families following the death of their baby" resource is HERE Some things are hard to talk about.  When a woman and a family have experienced the death of a baby during pregnancy its hard to find the right words.  Yet as healthcare professionals how can we improve the care we deliver if we don't tackle the challenging conversations; if we don't ask "how was your care?"  how can we ever learn and improve? How we perceive care as healthcare professionals is ver ...

“Nurses and nursing staff are at the heart of the communication process: they assess, record and report on treatment and care, handle information sensitively and confidentially, deal with complaints effectively, and are conscientious in reporting things they are concerned about.” RCN, Principles of nursing practice, Principle E.Nurses play a key role through out a patient’s journey, spending more time with patients than any other profession within the NHS. The ability to communicate in a clear, accessible manner is fundamental to this relationship.It is often the role of nurses to explain information to patients in a language they can understand. Communicating within a healthcare setting involves the use of complex terms. We constantly use ...

#hellomynameisCarrie Jackson and I am the Director of the England Centre for Practice Development, a unique national centre for applied health research, practice development and innovation focusing on the achievement of person centered safe and effective care across many contexts and countries.  The Centre, launched in September 2012 runs a range of innovative programmes that focus on transformation through embedded research, learning, development and improvement specifically linked to clinical and systems leadership, culture change, safety and quality as far afield as Australasia.  We achieve our reach and impact through well-established strong partnerships with an extensive network of diverse collaborators internationally including Visiti ...

We here at WeLDNurses welcome the NMC's current consultation on Standards for Nurses and Nursing in the future. We recognise that this is a turbulent time for the Nursing family and those in Education in planning the future workforce. Learning Disability Nursing is very much at the frontline experiencing the ongoing workforce challenges (Hatton, 2016) along with the shared implications of the 2015 Spending review, causing the next intake of students to be required to pay for their tuition, and the new routes into the profession including the associate role and apprenticeships. Along with this the recently announced - and awaiting a rename - Nurse First programme is intended to funnel mature graduates into both Learning Disabilities and Ment ...

It is no longer possible to think about digital literacy as just technical proficiency or the job of someone in the IT and informatic steam. Modern health and care staff must have a wide range of digital skills to provide the best possible patient outcomes and ensure effective personal and professional development (NIB, 2015).Nurses, in particular, are being encouraged to become e-nurses by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), ensuring that the “nursing workforce is alert to the possibilities offered by a rapidly changing digital environment and confident in their ability to influence this at all levels” (RCN, 2016).Health Education England (HEE) has worked with stakeholders on what is meant by the term “digital literacy” and what skills the ...

#WePMDs is back!!!A summer of renewal and audit is upon the paramedic profession in 2017 and so as part of the resuscitation of @WeParamedics we are going to hold our first tweet chat about this subject in the virtual @WePararmedics crew room. This chat will look at paramedic registration and CPD requirements including the HCPC audit process. The hosts of the chat between them have over 50 years’ experience of working in and with Ambulance services. The chat will be supported by the College of Paramedics who have tweeters with expertise in this area and we are looking forward to others sharing their knowledge, opinion and experiences.The tweetchat will focus on 2 main areas for discussionThe UK Paramedic has been a registered professional s ...

This tweet-chat will explore how nurses can quickly identify deteriorating patients within a care home setting.  It will focus on how to spot early signs of deterioration, how to interpret clinical observations, how to use the SBAR tool to communicate meaningful information to supporting practitioners and how to respond to an emergency.  Consideration will also be given to the timely recognition of sepsis within a care home setting.The tweet-chat will focus on five main areas:1. How to spot early signs of deterioration.2. How to interpret clinical observations.Clinical observations that will be considered include; respiration rate, heart rate, oxygen saturation level, blood pressure, temperature, consciousness, blood glucose and urinalysis. ...

On Thursday 27th July we'll be discussing how AHPs can and should measure and evidence the demand, capacity and quality of our services. Strategic contextEvidencing the quality & productivity of Allied Health Professions' (AHPs) care, is crucial in the current climate of changing need and demand, and financial austerity. The NHS Five Year Forward View outlines the challenges posed to health and healthcare, and makes recommendations to address these. ‘AHPs into Action’ demonstrates that the ambitions for future care models will require a more flexible workforce, one which is responsive to changing demand.  If the aspirations of the Five Year Forward View are to be realised it is important that a more joined up approach is taken to developing ...

Globally, domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is now recognised as a serious health and social issue (WHO, 2015). Within the UK, approximately 1.3 million women and 600,000 men experienced any type of DVA in the last year (Office of National Statistics, 2016). Moreover, the economic, service and human cost of DVA has been estimated to be approximately sixteen billion per annum for England and Wales (Walby, 2009). When compared to non-victims there is a range of negative health consequences associated with victimisation. These include but are not limited to: poor mental health, chronic health disorders, physical injury, depression, diminished physical functioning, PTSD, substance misuse, suicide attempts, anxiety (Golding, 1999; Hegarty, 2006; ...

Introduction:Developing and improving practice in End Of Life Care (EOLC) within a large NHS acute trust; How do you engage a large workforce & drive up quality in EOLC when faced with increased and competing clinical service priorities? This chat will focus on the role of the EOLC Champion as a means of sharing & developing initiatives around EOLC in the acute hospital. National context:Over the last few years there has been a national focus on improving the quality of end of life and the choices offered to patients and families across all settings. There has been many publications to guide;•National Palliative and End of life Partnership (2015) Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life care. A national framework 2015 - 2020•The Choice in E ...