Blog
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blog posts
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14 May 2024
Diabetes in Sierra Leone
This blog explains the complexities of managing diabetes in the developing country of Sierra Leone in Africa. I discuss the challenges associated with providing care such as poverty, lack of resources including insulin and other diabetes medications, malnutrition and infectious diseases.
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4 Mar 2024
What is a Professional Lead and how are they supporting the Diabetes forum?
This blog introduces the Professional Lead for long term conditions, Callum Metcalfe-O’Shea, and how he is working with the diabetes forum to support initiatives and improve RCN forum engagement.
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28 Feb 2024
Gaslight
This blog has been submitted by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, for reasons that will become clear as you read it. Bullying is a common phenomenon for nurses, with around a quarter of the nursing family experiencing bullying in the past year. This blog highlights my personal experience of “gaslighting” - a specific type of bullying, and how I am gradually recovering from this.
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7 Jul 2023
CGM - whose job is it anyway?
Appropriate use of continuous blood glucose monitoring can transform the lives of people with diabetes and is now recommended by NICE, but how do we address the knowledge gaps to increase access to technology outside of specialist practice?
