Lorna Murphy
@lornam.bsky.social
Charge Nurse in ICU/Critical Care UHM 🏴Interested in Palliative and EOLC 💙Leading QI Work on EOLC in our ICU.
All my own opinions
#nursesky
#palliativecare
#ICUsky
All my own opinions
#nursesky
#palliativecare
#ICUsky
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This year's To Absent Friends (1-7 November) activities include beach bonfires, remembrance cafes, live music, and more. Find out what's happening near you and online by checking our #toabsentfriends listings:
www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/blogs/festiv...
www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/blogs/festiv...
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This year's To Absent Friends (1-7 November) activities include beach bonfires, remembrance cafes, live music, and more. Find out what's happening near you and online by checking our #toabsentfriends listings:
www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/blogs/festiv...
www.toabsentfriends.org.uk/blogs/festiv...
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The 2025 Resuscitation Guidelines emphasise the importance of correct defibrillator pad placement - a simple step that gives someone in cardiac arrest the best chance of survival.
🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at resus.org.uk/2025-guidelines
🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at resus.org.uk/2025-guidelines
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The 2025 Resuscitation Guidelines emphasise the importance of correct defibrillator pad placement - a simple step that gives someone in cardiac arrest the best chance of survival.
🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at resus.org.uk/2025-guidelines
🎥 Watch the video to learn more
🔗 Read the full Guidelines at resus.org.uk/2025-guidelines
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Symptoms of #BreastCancer can include:
A breast lump or thickening, often without pain
Change in size, shape or appearance of the breast
Dimpling, redness, pitting or other changes in the skin
Change in nipple appearance
Abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple
A breast lump or thickening, often without pain
Change in size, shape or appearance of the breast
Dimpling, redness, pitting or other changes in the skin
Change in nipple appearance
Abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple
October 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Symptoms of #BreastCancer can include:
A breast lump or thickening, often without pain
Change in size, shape or appearance of the breast
Dimpling, redness, pitting or other changes in the skin
Change in nipple appearance
Abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple
A breast lump or thickening, often without pain
Change in size, shape or appearance of the breast
Dimpling, redness, pitting or other changes in the skin
Change in nipple appearance
Abnormal or bloody fluid from the nipple
100% agree with this
October 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
100% agree with this
breastcancernow.org
October is breast cancer awareness month 🩷 If you don’t already check your breasts then now is a really good time to start
October is breast cancer awareness month 🩷 If you don’t already check your breasts then now is a really good time to start
We're Breast Cancer Now
We’re here to change the lives of people affected by breast cancer. How? By combining the power of research and support.
breastcancernow.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
breastcancernow.org
October is breast cancer awareness month 🩷 If you don’t already check your breasts then now is a really good time to start
October is breast cancer awareness month 🩷 If you don’t already check your breasts then now is a really good time to start
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
#BreastCancer is the most common cancer among women globally and represents approximately a quarter of all cancers that occur in women every year.
#BreastCancer is the most common cancer among women globally and represents approximately a quarter of all cancers that occur in women every year.
October 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
#BreastCancer is the most common cancer among women globally and represents approximately a quarter of all cancers that occur in women every year.
#BreastCancer is the most common cancer among women globally and represents approximately a quarter of all cancers that occur in women every year.
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Let's get this to 2 million!
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions share.google/yrbJu69IDd3s...
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions share.google/yrbJu69IDd3s...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
share.google
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Let's get this to 2 million!
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions share.google/yrbJu69IDd3s...
Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions share.google/yrbJu69IDd3s...
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Tomorrow's front page 📰
Empty room for Netanyahu
Empty room for Netanyahu
September 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Empty room for Netanyahu
Empty room for Netanyahu
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Have you made your organ and tissue donation decision known? Don’t leave your loved ones in doubt.
Find out more at www.organdonation.scot
#LeaveNoDoubt
Find out more at www.organdonation.scot
#LeaveNoDoubt
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Have you made your organ and tissue donation decision known? Don’t leave your loved ones in doubt.
Find out more at www.organdonation.scot
#LeaveNoDoubt
Find out more at www.organdonation.scot
#LeaveNoDoubt
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Were you in ICU, or are you a relative of someone who was? If so, the Intensive Care Society wants to hear from you, the patients and families, about your experiences of ICU, in order to identify their top research priorities. Take part here: bit.ly/JLAPSP-ICU
Help shape the future of intensive care research
Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Were you in ICU, or are you a relative of someone who was? If so, the Intensive Care Society wants to hear from you, the patients and families, about your experiences of ICU, in order to identify their top research priorities. Take part here: bit.ly/JLAPSP-ICU
Me today…
Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.
September 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Me today…
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"I hope there comes a day in Afghanistan when women can do whatever they want."
It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies.
Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies.
Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'In Scotland I can pursue medicine dreams the Taliban took away'
Omulbanin Sultani was among a group of Afghan medical students able to continue their studies in Scotland after the Taliban seized control of the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"I hope there comes a day in Afghanistan when women can do whatever they want."
It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies.
Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a year since we helped bring 19 female Afghan medical students to Scotland to continue their studies.
Omulbanin Sultani reflects on her life before and since then: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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🛌 Preventing ICU-Acquired Weakness
This umbrella review of seven systematic reviews found that starting rehabilitation within 1–3 days of ICU admission was associated with a 13% lower risk of ICU-acquired weakness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
@baccnuk.bsky.social
This umbrella review of seven systematic reviews found that starting rehabilitation within 1–3 days of ICU admission was associated with a 13% lower risk of ICU-acquired weakness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
@baccnuk.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🛌 Preventing ICU-Acquired Weakness
This umbrella review of seven systematic reviews found that starting rehabilitation within 1–3 days of ICU admission was associated with a 13% lower risk of ICU-acquired weakness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
@baccnuk.bsky.social
This umbrella review of seven systematic reviews found that starting rehabilitation within 1–3 days of ICU admission was associated with a 13% lower risk of ICU-acquired weakness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
@baccnuk.bsky.social
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We are pleased to share new guidance on “The Decision Making and Transfer of Critically Ill Adults to Their Preferred Place of Death” – providing a framework to help healthcare teams navigate one of the most sensitive and important decisions in end-of-life care.
July 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We are pleased to share new guidance on “The Decision Making and Transfer of Critically Ill Adults to Their Preferred Place of Death” – providing a framework to help healthcare teams navigate one of the most sensitive and important decisions in end-of-life care.
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Can the swimmer position for the upper limbs during prone ventilation lead to brachial plexus injury in ICU patients with ARDS?
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#NICCJournal #CriticalCareNursing #ProneVentilation #ARDS #BrachialPlexusInjury #SwimmerPosition #ICUResearch @baccnuk.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#NICCJournal #CriticalCareNursing #ProneVentilation #ARDS #BrachialPlexusInjury #SwimmerPosition #ICUResearch @baccnuk.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Can the swimmer position for the upper limbs during prone ventilation lead to brachial plexus injury in ICU patients with ARDS?
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#NICCJournal #CriticalCareNursing #ProneVentilation #ARDS #BrachialPlexusInjury #SwimmerPosition #ICUResearch @baccnuk.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc...
#NICCJournal #CriticalCareNursing #ProneVentilation #ARDS #BrachialPlexusInjury #SwimmerPosition #ICUResearch @baccnuk.bsky.social
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If a nurse wrote down your story while you were unconscious in the ICU... would you want to read it?
Explore how nurse-written diaries are changing lives, one entry at a time.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc.7… #SundayReflectionsn#ICUDiariese#PatientRecoveryry @baccnuk.bsky.social
Explore how nurse-written diaries are changing lives, one entry at a time.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc.7… #SundayReflectionsn#ICUDiariese#PatientRecoveryry @baccnuk.bsky.social
https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.7…
July 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If a nurse wrote down your story while you were unconscious in the ICU... would you want to read it?
Explore how nurse-written diaries are changing lives, one entry at a time.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc.7… #SundayReflectionsn#ICUDiariese#PatientRecoveryry @baccnuk.bsky.social
Explore how nurse-written diaries are changing lives, one entry at a time.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/nicc.7… #SundayReflectionsn#ICUDiariese#PatientRecoveryry @baccnuk.bsky.social
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There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers.
What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
There is no justification on earth for blocking deliveries of baby formula to starving babies and mothers.
What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
What Israel is inflicting on Gaza is monstrous, genocidal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms
For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“There’s only so many times you can be lucky, sweetheart.” I spent several days at The Thistle - the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility - talking to staff & users. Here is the piece I wrote for the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The replies to this post are wonderful
At the back of your kitchen cupboard is something pickled or preserved in a jar that you were given for Christmas several years ago that you’ve never quite felt like eating.
Throw it out now.
Throw it out now.
July 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The replies to this post are wonderful
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Find out if your MP voted for the rights of disabled people, or against, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How did my MP vote on reforms to the benefits system?
Check whether your MP voted for or against the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
www.bbc.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Find out if your MP voted for the rights of disabled people, or against, here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Improving palliative and end-of-life care has never been more important.
I am thrilled to announce the Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care, which will accelerate better care for dying people by closing the gap between evidence and practice.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/half-of...
I am thrilled to announce the Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care, which will accelerate better care for dying people by closing the gap between evidence and practice.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/half-of...
Half of UK adults worried about painful death
Almost half (47%) of UK adults are worried that they or their loved ones will have a painful or undignified death, according to a survey commissioned by King’s College London.
www.kcl.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Improving palliative and end-of-life care has never been more important.
I am thrilled to announce the Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care, which will accelerate better care for dying people by closing the gap between evidence and practice.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/half-of...
I am thrilled to announce the Impact Centre for Palliative and End-of-Life Care, which will accelerate better care for dying people by closing the gap between evidence and practice.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/half-of...
Brilliant night at the Kings Theatre Glasgow to see Restless Natives the musical - we absolutely loved it
June 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Brilliant night at the Kings Theatre Glasgow to see Restless Natives the musical - we absolutely loved it
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The Intensive Care Society welcomes the important report published by the Palliative Care Commission - we believe there is significant potential to improve how palliative care is delivered within intensive care settings.
Read our full statement below👇
bit.ly/pallcarecomm...
Read our full statement below👇
bit.ly/pallcarecomm...
June 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Intensive Care Society welcomes the important report published by the Palliative Care Commission - we believe there is significant potential to improve how palliative care is delivered within intensive care settings.
Read our full statement below👇
bit.ly/pallcarecomm...
Read our full statement below👇
bit.ly/pallcarecomm...
Great idea. Will look forward to hearing more
Trials have begun in Bath for an inflatable pillow designed to make moving ICU patients safer, quicker, and easier for #NHS staff.
#Research #ResearchWithImpact
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
#Research #ResearchWithImpact
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
June 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Great idea. Will look forward to hearing more