US doctors are wrongly slicing off bits of babies' TONGUES 'to make breastfeeding easier' and leaving them with life-long deformities, investigation finds
Midwives and doctors have aggressively recommended that babies undergo a risky procedure to make breastfeeding easier, with potentially disastrous consequences. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What We Lose When We Can ’ t Stargaze
I once met a physics graduate student at a cosmology school (I’ll call him Max) who, until his late 20s had believed that you could only see the stars with a telescope. Max had grown up in New York City, where the twilight of artificially lit nights dissolved the firmament. When he discovered the “permanent presence of the sublime,” as poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described it in his 1836 essay “Nature,” patiently awaiting on a clear, dark night, he was mesmerized.
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What do we lose when our connection with our cosmic environment is broken?
The nig...
Source: TIME: Science - December 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Roberto Trotta Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Nurses reminded to ‘speak up when needed’ amid busy winter period
Nurses have been reminded of their professional responsibility to ‘speak up where necessary’ as health and care services face ‘another busy winter period’. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), England’s chief nursing officer (CNO), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the General Medical Council (GMC) have penned a letter to health and care staff this... Read moreThe post Nurses reminded to ‘speak up when needed’ amid busy winter period appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - December 13, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
Abu Dhabi-backed group close to £1bn deal for Gogglebox maker All3Media
The Abu Dhabi-backed investment group that has struck a deal to buy the Telegraph is close to securing a £1bn-plus takeover of another prize UK media asset – All3Media, the TV production group behind shows including Call the Midwife, Squid Game: The Challenge, Gogglebox and Midsomer Murders.…#abudhabi #telegraph #redbirdimi #redbirdcapital #imi #uae #all3media #warnerbrosdiscovery #libertyglobal #traitors (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NMC guidance clarifies nurses ’ freedom to express beliefs
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has published new guidance aiming to clarify the boundaries of nurses’ freedom of expression. The NMC said the guidance – headed ‘Freedom of expression and Fitness to Practise’ – is aimed primarily at decision makers in its fitness to practise process but ‘also provides clarity to nurses, midwives and... Read moreThe post NMC guidance clarifies nurses’ freedom to express beliefs appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - December 12, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
Senior midwife tasked with probing horrifying NHS maternity scandals criticises 'extremely disappointing' progress in making it safe for women to give birth in Britain
Donna Ockenden, who led the investigation into Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust, said the money provided so far was 'nowhere near good enough'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The undercommons of childbirth and their abolitionist ethic of care. A study into obstetric violence among mothers, midwives (in training), and doulas - van der Waal R, van Nistelrooij I, Leget C.
Engaging in dialogue with critical mothers, midwives, midwives in training, and doulas in the Netherlands, this study furthers the theoretical understanding of both obstetric violence and the activist resistance against it. Obstetric violence is understood... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
NMC shares stories and resources via new ‘good leadership’ campaign
A new campaign launched by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) aims to support nursing leaders in meeting professional standards. As part of its ‘Good leadership means better care’ campaign, the regulator is sharing stories and resources designed to promote best practice among nurses, midwives and nursing associates in leadership positions. Martyn Davey, one of... Read moreThe post NMC shares stories and resources via new ‘good leadership’ campaign appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - December 5, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
Nursing numbers rise but ‘red list’ recruitment sparks fresh concern
There are a record 808,488 nurses, midwives and nursing associates eligible to practise in the UK, according to new data released by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The number on the register represents a record, according to NMC, with a rise of more than 19,857 (2.5%) from the figure six months ago, and 114,874... Read moreThe post Nursing numbers rise but ‘red list’ recruitment sparks fresh concern appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - November 30, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
Rising visa fees and reduced student numbers could worsen NHS recruitment crisis, says UNISON
Commenting on new Nursing and Midwifery Council data published today (Thursday), UNISON national nursing officer Stuart Tuckwood said: “It‘s encouraging to see a rise in the number of nurses and midwives registered to work in the UK.
“But the NHS workforce crisis hasn’t gone away. The number of students starting nursing courses this year in England has plummeted by 12%.
“Much more must be done to recruit and keep hold of the health and care staff who are so desperately needed.
“Around half of new nurses are from overseas and without them, the NHS would collapse. Ministers must understand there are consequen...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 30, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Dan Ashley Tags: News Press release Midwives migrant workers nurses nursing and midwifery council Source Type: news
Number of nurses and midwives working in NHS hits all-time high of 800,000 amid huge spike in overseas-trained medics from 'red list' nations
While number of nurses and midwives are up regulator says there is a worrying rise in recruits from places like Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia, where the NHS is banned from poaching workers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Suicidal thoughts and behaviours among student nurses and midwives: a systematic review - Groves S, Lascelles K, Hawton K.
AIM: To synthesize research investigating suicide, suicide attempts, self-harm and suicide ideation in nursing and midwifery students, a group of interest due to high rates of suicide among qualified nurses. Specific areas of interest for this review inclu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news
Nurses asked to complete anonymous survey as part of Letby inquiry
An anonymous survey is to be sent to all nurses, midwives, doctors and managers in hospitals with neonatal units as part of the inquiry into the murder and attempted murder of babies by former nurse Lucy Letby. Lady Justice Thirlwall, chair of the inquiry, released some details of the planned process in an opening address... Read moreThe post Nurses asked to complete anonymous survey as part of Letby inquiry appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - November 22, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Latest news Source Type: news
In Francophone West Africa, 3,000 More Nursing and Midwifery Students Are Benefitting from Competency-Based Training Matching Local Needs
cbalesNovember 20, 2023November 20, 2023IntraHealth is partnering with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to improve maternal and child health in Mali, Senegal, and Niger by sustainably increasing the number of skilled nurses and midwives ready to serve rural communities. Through the Classroom to Care (C2C) project, funded by Takeda ' s Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program, IntraHealth International is improving access to high-quality maternal and child health care in Mali, Niger, and Senegal by strengthening the preservice training of nurses and midwives in 12 private health schools. Now at the end ...
Source: IntraHealth International - November 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
The Guardian view on new dictionary words: a parlour game that can clarify a scary reality | Editorial
AI has given us hallucination as word of the year. We should quarrel with this humanising definition while recognising that it evokes unprecedented timesWhen the Cambridge dictionary announced “hallucinate” as itsword of the year this week, it was not referring to its existing definition as a human condition of “seeing, hearing, feeling or smelling something that does not exist”, but to the phenomenon of AI developing the capacity to make – or fake – things up. This is itself a somewhat hallucinatory concept, as Naomi Klein haspointed out. “Why call the errors ‘hallucinations’ at all? Why not algorithmic ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Editorial Tags: Artificial intelligence (AI) Culture Computing Consciousness Technology Science Books Film Climate crisis Source Type: news
