{"title":"Getting the balance right.","authors":"Ian Peate","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0513","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 19","pages":"959"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145351096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nursing must be at the heart of change.","authors":"Sam Foster","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0512","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Sam Foster</b> considers the proposed workforce plan for England and the issues affecting nurses around workforce safety, sustainability and professional wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 19","pages":"960"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145351124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of nutrition misinformation on public health and practice: a review.","authors":"Hasan H Alsararatee, Nafi'u Mukhtar Yunusa","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0300","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The widespread use of digital platforms, particularly social media, has transformed public access to nutrition information, presenting both opportunities and problems for public health. Although these platforms can enhance health education, they also facilitate the rapid spread of misinformation, often propagated by individuals without professional credentials. Nutrition misinformation shapes public perceptions and behaviours, with detrimental effects on dietary practices and increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases. Online content lacking peer review, scientific grounding or transparency can mislead individuals and erode trust in evidence-based nutrition science. Strategies to counter these effects include strengthening digital and health literacy, implementing policy reforms and ensuring that public health bodies provide accurate, engaging online information to build public resilience against misleading dietary claims.</p>","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 19","pages":"S18-S26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145351176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemplating changes in healthcare delivery.","authors":"Sharlene Haywood","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 19","pages":"S3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145351063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of a complex medical dietetic service on adult patient clinical outcomes.","authors":"Maria Alcaide","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Some groups of inpatients are at higher risk of malnutrition including adult intensive care unit (ICU) stepdown patients, long-stay individuals (hospital admission >21 days), those with a learning disability, people with safeguarding issues, patients under the tissue viability team for wound management and those with diabetes. These inpatients are usually reviewed on general wards by dietitians who have limited experience in managing complex cases.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>A dietetic service was created in 2022 to deliver high-quality nutritional support to complex medical inpatients. A service evaluation was conducted to evaluate this service between July 2022 and July 2023.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Inclusion criteria were developed to ensure the service targeted patients at high risk of malnutrition, and nutritional intervention and inpatient clinical outcomes were assessed over a 1-year period.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 416 patients included, 82% received oral nutritional support and 18% enteral feeding. Average response time from referral to initial dietetic assessment was 1.5 days compared with 2.1 days before the service was established. Of the 416 inpatients, 150 had their body weight measured on first assessment and before discharge; average body weight loss for patients in the tissue viability group was 4%, ICU stepdown 2.5%, diabetes 2%, learning disability group 1.7% and safeguarding 1%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>No clinically significant weight loss (>5%) was observed in any of the subcategories. However, only 36% of the inpatients had their weight measured on first dietetic assessment and before discharge, which might have skewed the results. Therefore, collecting other measurements such as handgrip strength or middle upper arm circumference in the future may more accurately reflect nutritional status and overcome the limitation of lacking body weight measures. The improved response time to referrals may have positively impacted the nutritional status of these inpatients.</p>","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 19","pages":"S8-S17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145351147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking barriers: supporting Black and internationally recruited nurses in the NHS through cultural celebrations.","authors":"Ndukwe Walter Ugwuocha","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Ndukwe Walter Ugwuocha</b>, Senior Clinical Nurse, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Lecturer, Pre-Registration Mental Health Nursing Master's Programme, University of Liverpool, draws on personal insights and nurses' experiences to champion cultural diversity in promoting workforce integration and high-quality care.</p>","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 18","pages":"918-920"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145288012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolving role of occupational health and wellbeing: a personal view.","authors":"Shriti Pattani","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0492","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 18","pages":"951-952"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145288067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celebrating 30 years of promoting and advancing urology nursing.","authors":"Sarah Hillery","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 18","pages":"S3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black History Month in a changing Britain.","authors":"Beverley Brathwaite","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 18","pages":"924-925"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sifting through the plethora of data in the latest reports is no easy task.","authors":"John Tingle","doi":"10.12968/bjon.2025.0478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2025.0478","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>John Tingle</b>, Associate Professor, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, focuses on several recent publications that identify and discuss the patient safety challenges facing the NHS.</p>","PeriodicalId":520014,"journal":{"name":"British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)","volume":"34 18","pages":"946-947"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145287992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}