Author: receivingconsent

  I'll let these speak for themselves - thank you to all that have got involved there have been some amazing responses to the challenge I set (was it just 2 days ago?!).  If you click on the twitter handle under each haiku, you will be taken to the original haiku in case you want… Continue reading The Haiku Episode #YearOfTheNurseAndMidwife #HaikuChallenge #64MillionArtists

  How can we empower nurses today? Well, I think before answering that question it is worth spending a brief moment to pause and consider why we need to even be asking this question.  It assumes that somehow we lack potency, we have something holding us back, keeping us from maximising our impact.  Is this… Continue reading How can we empower nurses today? My #NursingBloggers2020 February Blog Post

  I had an exciting e-mail in my in-box this morning. I've been intermittently taking part in the #64MillionArtists #JanuaryChallenge - you may have seen the odd tweet from me with a random picture! Well, today the challenge is for us to "set someone else a challenge." Just last evening I was taking part in a… Continue reading #64MillionArtists #TheJanuaryChallenge #NurseTakeover

  My interest in Professor Sir Richard Doll is to some extent a personal one.  I was aware of his existence before I lived in Oxford; my father had told me about him and his research that showed the link between smoking and lung cancer.  He sometimes recounts the story of the time there was… Continue reading Book Review – Smoking Kills (The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll) by Conrad Keating