Our educational📰is published!🥳(bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcent…)
WHAT WE DID: We analysed data over 7 years from people with Parkinson's to understand how a statistical method can affect outcomes.
Further information below🧵
WHAT WE FOUND: We used different statistical methods (t-test, linear regression & mixed effects models) to assess if apathy (lack of motivation) in changed over time. The linear mixed effects models showed a significant increase in apathy.
‘I would eat a bucket of nails if you told me it would help me sleep’: insomnia in cardiovascular disease
Dr David Sliz made it very clear
- don’t go out for a run before going to bed. Having a walk is ok.
- the bedroom is not meant for reading or watching television
#ACNAP2024
“Even a modest substitution in RN care is associated with poorer patient outcomes” Yet despite the evidence around the world in response to RN shortages Governments are making the wrong policy choice to deliberately create and grow non RN care roles. @ICNurses
A study from #PennNursing’s @Penn_CHOPR reveals that replacing RNs with lower-wage staff leads to higher mortality, readmissions, longer hospital stays, lower patient satisfaction, and increased care costs. Read more: bit.ly/4egZS9x.
5/ When you are in London be sure to see an 1863 letter from FN at Floris of London Perfumers, Jermyn St. And visit the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas’ Hospital @florencemuseum
3/ . She also led the charge for standardised data collection plus statistical rigour to institute massive healthcare policy & social reforms. What statisticians often forget is that her many data-based reforms were also supremely practical
2/ She vigorously championed use of infographics over tables at a time when statisticians dismissed them as not rigorous & even intellectually dishonest. The ‘coxcomb’ is most famous.
💙Care for those who care💙
#nurses are the backbone of our health systems, yet they often face severe financial constraints.
This International Nurses Day, WHO/Europe calls for more strategic investment in #nursing
👉bit.ly/44ttxI9#IND2024
Investing in #nursing education and developing #nurses' roles is a win-win-win for
🤕patients
👩⚕️staff and
🏥health systems
Raising standards of education helps raise standards of care❣️
👉bit.ly/44ttxI9#IND2024
Happy Florence Nightingale Day! #OTD FN 1820 b (d 13 Aug 1910). Best known as founder of modern nursing but also a renowned statistician & dataviz pioneer. First F member of @RoyalStatSoc 1859 and honorary member ASA @AmStatNews 1875. 1/5
ALT A rare photograph of FN, taken at her family home in May 1858 & discovered 2006; now at the Florence Nightingale Museum, London @florencemuseum
ALT letter from FN to the corresponding secretary of the American Statistical Association thanking them for electing her as Honorary member ASA
«Investieren in die Pflege lohnt sich, aber trotzdem werden Pflegefachpersonen vor allem als Kostenfaktor gesehen.» - unsere Stv. Geschäftsführerin @ChrSchumi im Beitrag von @nau_livenau.ch/politik/bundeshaus/si…
Find out the true value of #nursing and the economic power of care through some key figures featured in our soon-to-be-launched #IND2024 report! Watch this space for more: bit.ly/47wIPvI#OurNursesOurFuture
We are thrilled to announce that our steering committee shall meet this week to be introduced to their new co-chairs, Dr @MagdaNRobalo and Dr @PamCiprianoRN.
Learn more about their vast experience and passion for #UniversalHealthCoverage.
The problems:
1. Blame culture
2. System needs over-ride staff well-being
3. Unintended personal costs of upholding values at work
4. Interventions don’t recognise cumulative chronic stressors
5. It is hard to design, identify & implement interventions. qualitysafety.bmj.com/conten…