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As discussed in the accompanying editorial Nursing on the front foot,
People living with Long Covid often find the complexity of navigating health services difficult. The nurse’s role is to support patients in this context. This includes ensuring they are sufficiently informed about what Long Covid is. The specialist nurses recommended the British Heart Foundation’s online resource - Long Covid: Symptoms, tests and treatments: https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/long-covid%23whatdoesfatiguefeel.
Information about Long Covid is also available via Long Covid Physio:
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For many decades, nurses have been expected to base their practice on up-to-date, research-derived evidence, melded with knowledge from nursing theory, experience—our own and others—and innovating in practice. This composite, complex evidence base is passed on through generations of nurses both formally, through educational opportunities and our own readings, and informally through the stories we tell of our practice. These nursing narratives encompass and connect the multiple levels at which nurses work—alongside a person and their families and carers, within the structures of healthcare and social-care organisations and in policymaking settings. Essentially, narratives enable compelling and memorable links to be drawn between research, theory and experience, creating the certainty and confidence we need to work effectively within our very different practice environments. Any turbulence in practice, deficiency in the evidence base or challenge to our ability to pass on our narratives is likely to cause ambiguity and anxiety and...
Commentary on: Turk F, Sweetman J, Chew-Graham CA, et al. Accessing care for long covid from the perspectives of patients and healthcare practitioners: a qualitative study. Health Expect 2024;27:e14008. doi.org/10.1111/hex.14008
Training to enhance healthcare providers’ knowledge about Long Covid and tailored, equitable and timely access to integrated healthcare suitable for diverse and complex needs is required in the management of Long Covid. Future research is needed to address misinformation and the provision and effectiveness of reliable online resources for Long Covid patients along with an understanding of the effectiveness of integrated models of Long Covid care across diverse clinical settings.
Long Covid is an emerging long-term condition resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection, characterised by a wide array of persistent symptoms, it is heterogenous in nature with fluctuations and experiences of relapse.
When I took over as editor-in-chief (EiC) of Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) in August 2010, I had a simple but ambitious goal: to make it easier for nurses and midwives to access research evidence and help them use it to improve their practise. I also hoped to amplify their voice in influencing health policy. 15 years later, as I write my final editorial before stepping down from my post at the end of July, I reflect on how the EBN team collectively brought that original vision to life.
At the heart of EBN are our commentaries—incisive, insightful pieces that critically evaluate current research. But over time, we’ve grown far beyond that. In 2011, we launched the Research Made Simple (RMS) series, which aims to demystify research methods for practitioners. I am proud that these papers have become an important resource for healthcare lecturers teaching research skills.
As a nurse educator,...
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