This week is the International Nursing Week, all the reason to hear their stories.
Just take a bit of your time to listen to EfCCNa President Prof. Bronagh Blackwood talking about "Intensive Care Nurses under pressure during COVID-19: their fight and plight" during ESNO Congress 2021
Opportunity to Participate in a Research Study
Study title:
Nurses’ experience of point of care testing in critical care (Ethics approval number: ETH1819-0094)
Purpose of the study:
The aim of this study is to explore adult nurses’ experiences of using point of care testing (POCT) in critical care. POCT is laboratory blood testing that is undertaken near to the patient.
We are asking you to take part because you are a nurse who works in an intensive care unit, who has experience of using POCT.
Please click the link below to access the full study information sheet and the link to a survey, which will take no more than 15 minutes to complete:
SurveyMonkey Powered Online Survey (The survey link will close 30th June 2021.)
Please contact Professor Bench with any questions or queries about the study: benchs@lsbu.ac.uk
The aim of this paper was to explore how the media and socially established hero narrative, affected the nursing staff who worked in the frontline during the first round of the COVID19‐pandemic.
During the COVID19‐pandemic, both media, politicians and the public have supported and cheered on the frontline healthcare workers around the world.
We have found the hero narrative to be potentially problematic for both nurses and other healthcare workers.
This paper presents an analysis and discussion of the consequences of being proclaimed a hero.
There is a change in the Finnish Council representation. Maarit Lönn, Council member since February 2020, is handing over to Nabil Abu-Saad. We thank Maarit very much for her participation, wish her all the best for her future and welcome Nabil.
Here is his introduction: My name is Nabil. I have been lucky enough to attend the last two congresses of EfCCNa in Belfast and Ljubljana and I right away saw how important and beneficial those conferences are for us critical care nurses. I am 35 years old, I was born in Lebanon and finished my Bachelor degree in Nursing there in Beirut in 2005, I worked in the Intensive care of a busy hospital for around two and a half years.
After that, I moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I worked there in the Surgical Critical Care Unit (SSCU-B) of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre for five years. It was a great time for me both on the professional and the personal level. I developed my nursing skills, traveled, met friends from all over the globe whom I am still in touch with and of course, that was where I met my wife who is from Finland.
So I moved to Finland in 2013 and right away started my Finnish language studies as well as the necessary studies to get my nursing degree accepted here. I started working in the Intensive Care Unit of Meilahti Hospital in Helsinki in April 2014 and that is where I still work.
I am very excited and honored to be selected as the Finnish representative to EfCCNa and looking forward to meet all of you and do great work together
the SANDWICH trial - Sedation and Weaning in Children is sharing the results:
