Talking to parents about evidence-based healthcare and the work of Cochrane

To mark the recentWorld Evidence-based Healthcare Day, Registered NursePenny Blunden (BN, MNursAP) spoke to her 21,000 followers on@Sick.Happens in anInstagram Live about Cochrane work and the importance of good quality evidence. This chat was aimed about parents interested in health evidence – we caught up with her to ask her more.Hi Penny, thanks for speaking with us. It ’s great to see so many healthcare professionals on social media. What’s your background?I am a Paediatric Registered Nurse with a Masters of Nursing. I have always had a passion for working with children, but since becoming a Mum myself, I realised how much ongoing support and education parents need when raising little humans.Your handle on Instagram is@Sick.Happens. Can you tell us more about that? Why did you start Sick Happens?I started Sick Happens after realising that parents don ’t have this ongoing support and education. The only access they had to evidence-based health education surrounding the illnesses in children were in a time-restricted GP appointment, a chaotic Emergency visit or in a first-aid course. Although these services are critical, they don’t provide the education surrounding the somewhat inevitable bouts of sickness. The fevers, vomiting, breathing colds& flu ’s, poo questions — the list is endless. So I founded Sick Happens to fill this gap.Not everyone is convinced that social media is a great way to disseminate health evidence because it ’s a ‘serious and com...
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