A few weeks ago Dr Mia Nelson shared some of her recent research.  This was part of the CRFR  ‘Emotions seminars’ within the University of Edinburgh.  Her presentation was entitled ‘ Tea, Tissues and the room of doom: transitioning to palliative care in paediatric oncology’. We were offered a fascinating insight to results from her recent […]

Sharon Levy, Programme director for the MSc in Advanced Clinical Skills, shares his experience of being part of one of the filmed clinical scenarios. I must admit that I was nervous prior to the filming of a clinical scenario session, for our MSc in Advanced Clinical Skills. Aided by Ali – a well-known actor, researcher […]

This year Nursing Studies has been shortlisted for 3 awards as part of the ‘Student Nursing Times Awards 2015’. Nursing Studies has been shortlisted in 3 categories, one of which is for Dr. Aisha Holloway as ‘Educator of the Year’! We also have been shortlisted in the ‘Partnership of the Year’ category for the work […]

Aisha Holloway met with the MSc ANP students this week as she has been spending some time away from Nursing Studies. Here she shares some reflections on being back with the students. ‘It was great to see them all again. I have missed them since giving up the Programme Director role in January. They are flourishing […]

Students on the MSc in Advancing Nursing Practice had an opportunity to learn more about the work of a senior NHS nurse who recently completed the same programme herself. Alison Glover, Renal Recipient Transplant Coordinator, demonstrated her innovative ePortfolio and elaborated on the benefits and the challenges she faced when using PebblePad (http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/). Alison also […]

Fiona Tevendale collaborated with Dorothy Armstrong to produce a paper which has just been published in the Nursing Times. Fiona is a Third year student in the Undergraduate Nursing Studies programme, and was willing to share a few notes about writing the article. ‘The article Dorothy and I wrote was about using patient stories in […]

An exciting opportunity presented itself when a group of us (students and staff) put a bid to get 8 pairs of Google Glasses to be used as a teaching tool in the clinical skills lab. The idea was to get a simulated patient to wear the Glass and capture the way a student nurse interacts with […]

It is so strange to be properly in touch with some parts of the Department of Nursing Studies, as all has been closed to us ‘European Pioneer Graduates’ (the phrase was coined by another European Pioneer Graduate’ quite recently, in an e-mail to me!) since November 1996, and the big gathering to celebrate the 40th […]

November 20th and 21st saw Nursing Studies collaborate with NHS Lothian, Queen Margaret University and Edinburgh Napier University to put on two events which explored nursing in WW1.   The idea for the events had come from Professor Pam Smith after visiting the war poets collection based at Craighlockhart Campus, a tribute to Wilfred Owen and […]

One of the MSc students, Angie Balfour, is just back from Canada where she had been invited to present on the ERAS programme.  This is a programme which she is involved in as part of her clinical work in NHS Lothian. ERAS or ‘Enhanced Recovery After Surgery’ is a Multi-Modal, Multi-Disciplinary, evidence-based programme of care that aims […]