Helen Cowan 💙

Award-winning health writer, social care nurse, informal carer, Oxford PhD physiology. Tweets personal.

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

My article for @TheQNI on @HoratiosGarden - how it has helped my husband and I to heal. Horatio’s Garden, like the QNI, is one of the beneficiary charities of @NGSOpenGardens #beauty #NatureTherapy @JuliaBradbury @lifeafterpara @spinalinjuries https://t.co/LAPC155no1

[Seen and Unseen @seenunseenmag]

Nurses have an abundance of time on a twelve-hour shift, but simply not enough time to do all that is asked of them. Interruptions are ingrained in nursing care — one study showing an interruption every six minutes during a nursing shift.

https://t.co/XDB0zfgnhe

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

@womenwritersnet

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

Interruptions are ingrained in #nursing care - one study showing an interruption every six minutes during a nursing shift. I've learned to surrender. Here is my piece. RT @Christianitymag @WomanAliveUK @UK_CMF
https://t.co/iOiw0W7ig1

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

Interruptions are ingrained in #nursing care - one study showing an interruption every six minutes during a nursing shift. I've learned to surrender. Here is my piece. RT @Christianitymag @WomanAliveUK @UK_CMF
https://t.co/iOiw0W7ig1

[Karen Lee @Karen_karenelee]

I am utterly fed-up of seeing comments about the failure of the assisted suicide Bill. As a nurse of 20+ years & a Mum whose daughter died of cancer I opposed it & would fight it with every breath in my body should it ever reappear. Focus instead on improving Palliative care.

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

I’m grateful for all those MSPs who voted down the assisted dying bill. No legislation of this sort can ever safeguard the vulnerable, to protect against coercive control or self coercion. Autonomy for those with agency would always entail the worst for the many without it.

[Seen and Unseen @seenunseenmag]

Paul Kalanithi’s memoir of dying sharpens how we see living

Read the full article 👇
https://t.co/pZSyRk2GGC

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

@Christianitymag inspired by your testimonies. Here is mine, inspired by a moving autobiography of a doctor who speaks in his life and his death. https://t.co/EKO2asVDU7

[Alison Moore @alijanemoore also on Bluesky @AliJaneMoore]

The collapse in recruitment of nurses from overseas laid bare.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Those religious people and lobbyists in full:

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

No issue is more important in the world than the preservation of human dignity.

[Seen and Unseen @seenunseenmag]

"A name tells much about a person’s identity, heritage and self-worth."

https://t.co/vRyKEmrr5c

[Donald Macaskill @DrDMacaskill]

As we celebrate #ChristmasDay thank you to the thousands of women and men who are working in #homecare and #carehomes today and all those unpaid #carers. You are the best of us at all times and we need to do better by you. #careaboutcare #carecreates.

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

@Justacarehomeg1 And you too!

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

My piece on stillness in illness and wellness #nursing

[Seen and Unseen @seenunseenmag]

"Her role model was Jesus himself who often stepped away to be still, to seek spiritual sustenance."

https://t.co/L2UXnCNDDX

[Seen and Unseen @seenunseenmag]

"By contrast with the stillness of the Neo-Impressionist’s dots, the dashes used by Van Gogh possess a much greater sense of energy and movement."

https://t.co/8oo11yAh1M

[Prof Katherine Sleeman @kesleeman]

Here are nine reasons why the Complex Life and Death Decisions (CLADD) group at ⁦@KingsCollegeLon⁩ believe the Terminally Ill Adults bill is bad law as currently drafted 👇

[Past Medical History @PastMedHistory]

WWI recruitment poster - nurses urgently needed #histmed #historyofmedicine #WWI #pastmedicalhistory

[Helen Cowan 💙 @HelenCCowan]

@SchoolofCLife Being still has helped me as a nurse to diagnose, to help and to heal. Stillness in illness, and wellness. https://t.co/HAXbecZbjU

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

On the issue of Pres Trump allegation that paracetamol can cause autism, it’s worth noting that, as the Health Secretary Wes Streeting says, a major study carried out last year in Sweden, involving 2.4 million children, didn’t support this suggestion.

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

One summer evening in 1894, Winslow Homer spent hours capturing this scene as it unfolded in front of him. It was painted in the light of the moon, and never retouched. That tiny pin-prick of red, off-centre on the horizon, is a lighthouse on Wood Island, Prouts Neck near Maine.