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If you're reading this, you're probably a newly qualified nurse or midwife. And I also hazard a guess that one of your most pressing questions is something like this: Can I share the gospel with my patients? You might have a longer list of questions about boundaries. Can I pray...
If you're a student nurse or midwife, I can hazard a guess that one of your most pressing questions is something like this: Can I share the gospel with my patients? You might have a longer list of questions about boundaries. Can I pray with my patients? Am I even...
What's the first thing you do when you start your shift? When I started working in ITU, I quickly learned the routine: handover, bed-space check, patient assessment. Your day can't begin in earnest until those three things are done. So much to check - the ventilator settings, the parameters on...
Culture: the customs and social behaviours of a particular people. And as nurses and midwives, we certainly have our own. What first comes into your mind when you think about the hallmarks of our culture - good things or bad things? At CMF, we often talk about being counter-cultural and...
If you're a student nurse or midwife, I can hazard a guess that one of your most pressing questions is something like this: Can I share the gospel with my patients? You might have a longer list of questions about boundaries. Can I pray with my patients? Am I even...
2020's designation as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife by the WHO was nothing to do with Coronavirus. The initiative came because entering 2020 signalled a decade left to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 goals that all UN Member States agreed to strive...
Review by Georgie Coster CMF Associate Head of Nurses & Midwives On 21 July, in a move by the government to cultivate a positive relationship with its valuable 'frontliners', the Treasury announced a pay rise for almost 900,000 public sector workers. [1] However, not everybody embraced the pay rise because the...
We've heard a lot about how COVID-19 affects the lungs, often catastrophically. But what about the heart? This disease can expose issues of the heart we have been blissfully unaware of, and that can be painful. The pandemic has disfigured life as we knew it in the UK, and our 'normality'...
There is one part of the multidisciplinary team we are all liable to forget about. Those who provide spiritual help in time of need and who profess they love Jesus, can be a precious gift from God to nursing staff and the hospital. I am of course, talking about the...
