E-health apps for people with long term conditions: Hosted by: Joy O’Gorman @nursingPUNC18This is a joint @WeStudentNurses and @WeNurses Tweetchat   Have you heard of or used e-health apps in practice or during training? We are keen to learn about what you have come across and to also introduce some ideas you might like to consider utilising.  Joy O’Gorman, a digital health champion and student nurse @PlymUni introduces us to the latest training being introduced to nursing undergraduates; this includes enabling nursing professionals and service users adopt evidence-based e-health apps to manage known complexities of long-term conditions such as COPD, Asthma, Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease. NHS England’s long-term plan includes digital ...

IntroductionWe all want our children to grow up well and to become the best people they can be. We also know that whatever we do, however protective we are of them, life will throw its slings and arrows, bad things happen, and the road can be rocky. Why do some people and children manage better during hard times than others? This is especially true as children pass through what we call ‘life transitions’, like changing schools, parental separation, moving to college or leaving home. But it is equally true when friendship difficulties occur or they experience bullying, failures, losses or indeed bereavement. What can we as parents or professionals do to help our children grow up to have this thing called resilience?  Resilience helps them st ...

This tweetchat is based on the Nursing Conversations Conversation Starter "Should vaccinations be mandatory prior to starting school?" written by Ellen Nicholson - which you can read HERESome of the questions we will be exploring during this tweetchat are:Why are vaccinations important?What are the reasons for people declining vaccinations?Should vaccinations be mandatory? Should sanctions be applied to people who aren't vaccinated .. eg children who aren't vaccination should not be allowed to enter the school system? What are the dangers of imposing sanctions on unvaccinated people?What is our role, as nurses, in ensuring people are able to make informed choices re vaccinations?  ...

This tweetchat is based on the Nursing Conversations Conversation Starter "Can we be flexible with hospital visiting?" written by Emma Heron - which you can read HERESome of the questions we will be exploring during this tweetchat are:Visitors to hospitals are subject to different rules; some hospitals even having completely different visiting hours across their departments and wards.   Do we ensure visitors are aware of the expectations we have?How do we ensure the privacy of other patients on the ward, as per the NMC Code of Conduct (Standard 5), when visitors are present?How do we support those patients who do not receive visitors either because they do not have anyone able to physically visit them or because a ward is closed due to infe ...

Hosted by WeNurses in collaboration with WeStNs #WeNursesAs a follow up to our 11/7/19 tweet chat on e-health apps discussions now progress to e-health tools you may already be seeing more commonly in daily practice. Fit bit, Alexa, Ipads, Medication Alarm prompts and more … Do you use these in your practice? Can you see the potential? Perhaps you are already an e-health nurse well on your way to meeting NHS long term digital health goals and hadn’t realised quite how much you are doing! Alternatively, you may be an e-health expert and have some great tips to share. How can we use e- health tools to enhance patient’s quality of life?What tools, if any are you currently seeing in practice?What are the barriers to access? Funding? IT Skills? ...