I am lucky enough to get to chat to Teresa Chinn from @WeNurses. I first spoke with Teresa on my very first podcast and since then we have both grown our various enterprises.

Teresa has been awarded an MBE in the New Years honours list this year and it is thoroughly deserved for all her services to nursing.

We talk about her visit to Parliament and to the Health Select Committee. An informal process she said, but it sounded much more than that.

She also talked about how the website is developing so that they can use all of the information they are collecting and use it more effectively.

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This is the second of a series of podcasts with Ollie Poole who was a respiratory therapist in Canada and is now doing his medical training. You can listen to the first episode if you wish... CCP Podcast 018: Mechanical Ventilation....

We go back to some of the basics here, discussing some of the reasons and goals of mechanical ventilation.

I came across Ollies' YouTube site Respiratory Review and was very impressed with his series on mechanical ventilation helping to explain some of the terminology and reasoning behind how we ventilate patients. He breaks down the issues in a logical, well ordered format....so go and listen to them.

Our plan is to have a series of chats about mechanical ventilation based around his YouTube videos, so watch this space!

Reducing ventilator associated pneumonia in adult patients through high standards of oral care: A historical control study

Lee Cutler, Paula Sluman. Intensive and Critical care Nursing. 2014

Consultant Nurse Lee Cutler discusses the study he was involved in with his colleague Paula Sluman. Ventilator associated pneumonia is a big problem in the critical care environment so it is very important that we take all the measures we can do reduce its incidence. This seems like a simple approach which makes a difference.

Shiela Pantrini has been developing the educational route for the Advanced Clinical Practitioners along side Garry Swann at the Heart of England NHS Trust. She tells us how this occurred and the principles that drove it. We also go on to discuss the plans for the future and what would make a good potential practitioner.

Two of the courses which contribute to the Masters programme were mentioned and the links for them are here:

Warwick University- Clinical Examination Skills for Health Care Professionals

Warwick University- Clinical Investigations and Diagnostics for Health Care Professionals