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Ruth Oshikanlu

@ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social
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Award-winning #Nurse/#Midwife/#Health Visitor. Enabling women to raise happy babies, and children to achieve outcomes. #WithPeople #TraumaInformedCare #SoulMama with infectious smile #MadeToCare #LeadingWithLove while #BeingMe #NurseSky

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Tj. @tjeerd001.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
First #ICN2025 presentation done
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So this hapoened today and I’m so humbled to have my contribution to health equity in nursing and academia recognised by the hoghest in the land. www.linkedin.com/posts/lsbu_c...
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⭐ Congratulations to Prof Calvin Moorley, Chair of Diversity and Social Justice in Nursing, who has been awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours List for outstanding contributions to nursing...
⭐ Congratulations to Prof Calvin Moorley, Chair of Diversity and Social Justice in Nursing, who has been awarded an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours List for outstanding contributions to nursing...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/06/2025
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When white women in leadership steal your idea and repackage it and give other white women to run with what you started! It’s ugly business and believe you me I’m not stepping back on this one
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Olga Leach-Walters @olgaleachwalters77.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Connecting with RCN Fellows and past Presidents at #RCNCongress2025 was a real highlight of the week. Their wisdom, warmth and unwavering commitment to nursing leadership is truly inspiring. @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social @calvinmoorley.bsky.social @natlou28.bsky.social @kumbikariwo.bsky.social #Cecilia
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Here we are Liverpool 2019
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#Congratulations #LizMadigan @debrae.bsky.social #DianaBaptiste #FeliciaKwaku @johnunsworth10.bsky.social #WendyOlayiwola @sheilasobrany.bsky.social #JimBlai🎉🎉🎉 Looking forward to future collaborations!
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
One of the highlights of my career was becoming an #RCNFellow It was a great delight to welcome beautiful colleagues from the UK and around the globe to the @rcn.org.uk #Fellowship yesterday. #RCN2025 #RCNCongress
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
With my bestie @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social thank you for always looking out for me & lifting me and being your authentic self. Happy International Nurses Day
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Gorgeous start to #NursesDay #InternationalNursesDay #IND2025 Waking up to a glorious sunrise overlooking Liverpool Docks. #HappyNursesDay to nursing colleagues around the globe #OurNursesOurFuture #CaringForNursesStrengthensEconomies Today the State of the World's Nursing #SoWN report 2025 is out!
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Beautiful start to @rcn.org.uk #RCNCongress #RCN25 Dinner with fabulous colleagues and friends. #ElizabethMadigan @debrae.bsky.social #DianaLynBaptiste #BarbaraStilwell #DanielKelly #LizWestcott @sheilasobrany.bsky.social and my brother from another mother @calvinmoorley.bsky.social
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A true pleasure and honour to celebrate my mentor, colleague and very dear friend @debrae.bsky.social on her award of Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing @profbrendan.bsky.social @usydnursingschool.bsky.social Congratulations Debra! A well deserved accolade. @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social
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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Shout out to whoever wrote #NursesInRed #Wikipedia entry for Josephine - I just tripped over her with joy. @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social 1956 GNC registered #NigerianNurse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephi...
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Josephine Okwuekeleke Tolefe - Wikipedia
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Apart from #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfDiscrimination today is also #SingleParentsDay! Wishing all fellow single parents a happy day, and continued success. It is the most challenging role I have had to date. Single parents often face discrimination too! Thanks to everyone in my village!🙏🏽💜
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This post reminded me about a day I spent in a bookshop in Oakland, during my #ChurchillFellowship to the USA. It was February 2020, #BlackHistoryMonth in the States. I spent several hours at Marcus Book store I didn't want to leave. Happy #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfDiscrimination!
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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We hold a variety of books, eBooks and articles on this topic, so why not take a look? Browse our Reading list here: buff.ly/f5glym4
Collage of various book covers on topics related to racial discrimination displayed to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March 2025.
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It's great to be back on here. Took an enforced break. After returning from Australia, came down with the nasty virus that has been plaguing many. Grateful to be vertical again. It's been a busy week! Today it was @nursingtimes.bsky.social #SNTA 2025 judging with fabulous colleagues.
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sheilasobrany.bsky.social @sheilasobrany.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
#RCNLongCOVID #InternationalLongCovidAwarenessDay2025 #LongCOVIDAwareness @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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International Long Covid Awareness Day | Royal College of Nursing
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Aww Ruth I’m glad you met up with Brendan. Looking forward to catching up when you are back
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A super busy 3+ weeks in Australia undertaking the 2nd leg of my @churchillfship.bsky.social #ChurchillFellowship in Trauma-informed Care. Now I am aiming for #TraumaResponsive care. It's not enough to be informed! We as healthcare professionals must learn about how trauma shows up & respond to it!
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Brendan McCormack @profbrendan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
such a joy to spend time with @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social at #SydneyNursingSchool. Exciting conversations in global efforts to rid #Nursing of #colonial & #racist histories @sydneyuni.bsky.social @sydneypolicylab.bsky.social @pcpicop.bsky.social @louisesheehy.bsky.social
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Laura (she/her) 🍉 @midwifehippie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social @hannahrjrm.bsky.social @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social @drrosena.bsky.social @sandallj.bsky.social @calvinmoorley.bsky.social @hackneyabbott.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @dramandafirthrm.bsky.social @thelovelymaeve.bsky.social @blackmidwifery.bsky.social
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Read our latest paper in response the NMC independent culture review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social @johnunsworth10.bsky.social @crystaloldman.bsky.social @helenallen.bsky.social
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The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing @theqicn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
QNI's @crystaloldman.bsky.social & @johnunsworth10.bsky.social+@calvinmoorley.bsky.social @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social & Helen T. Allan have co-authored a new commentary in Journal of Advanced Nursing. ‘Redefining Regulation: Towards Equity and Social Justice’⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Redefining Regulation: Towards Equity and Social Justice
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Roger Kline @rogerkline.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Roger Kline @rogerkline.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
There is greed. And then there is this. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages
Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/01/2025
Why do high-profile child-abuse cases involving elites escape scrutiny? As debate swirls around ‘grooming gangs’, Peter Thurlow looks into systemic bias, selective justice and bandwagon-jumping politicians.
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Child sex abuse? Forget Pakistanis, it’s a tax dodger’s crime
A former media minder for child abuse survivors takes a long, hard look at the people who mistreated them
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Good scholarship opp here:
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ProfDoc David Evans @david-t-evans.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Wishing you all a happy and joyous New Year, with every joy and success for 2025 David x
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#HappyNewYear #Happy2025! From London! 💜💜💜
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Out in London Town tonight
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#February2024 meetups with @calvinmoorley.bsky.social #LellyOboh #DebbieBrown and fellow judges at the @nursingtimes.bsky.social #STNA judging day! #CelebratingConnectedness
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Going down memory lane celebrating #connectedness with fabulous colleagues who have become friends #January2024 meetups with #JulieRoye @dohertyta.bsky.social and #AdebolaAroboto Looking forward to growing together in 2025!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in
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Ruth Oshikanlu @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I have been quiet on here! I've been busy being present with those who truly matter to me: my immediate family. Came back from holiday last week and have been very reflective. I'm in #Gratitude mode! On our return flight, we hit #stormDarragh 1/
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
So TIME Magazine is putting convicted felons and adjudicated rapists on their cover now? How disgraceful.
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Retired Atheist @retiredatheist.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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Afghan women reportedly barred from studying nursing and midwivery
Several sources confirm the Taliban pronouncement, part of ongoing efforts to curtail education for girls and women. Women studying these subjects say they were barred from classes this week.
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Professor Calvin Moorley @calvinmoorley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Its not only medical misogny but sdd misogynnoir to that Black women are also treated differently www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Medical misogyny leaves women in pain for years, say MPs - BBC News
Women experiencing conditions such as heavy periods and endometriosis are being dismissed when they ask for help, a report warns.
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ProfDoc David Evans @david-t-evans.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
One year ago: Remembering that day in Dublin, with #RCSI_Nursing with great affection. Best wishes to you all, and for the next Award Ceremony for new Fellows, 2024. @lauraserrantltd.bsky.social @ruthoshikanlu.bsky.social @calvinmoorley.bsky.social davidtevans.wordpress.com/2023/05/21/f...
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FFNMRCSI 2023
Fellow ad eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Early in 2023, I had an unsolicited e-mail from a person I had never met (and still haven’…
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Alison Leary @alisonleary1.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
For 150 years district nursing worked pretty well. Alongside primary care ot seemed a pretty proven model
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption.. And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail Let's see. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Covid corruption commissioner gets to work
Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Trickle down economics has been nothing short of a disaster. Get our union-printed shirt now and help @rbreich.bsky.social and Inequality Media get out the truth about this economic scam: inequalitymedia.goodstockcompany.com/product/YGBc...
Robert Reich wearing a t-shirt calling trickle down economics a trick.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you - have never published anything - have no readers - didn't write anything this month - didn't write anything this year - can't articulate words anymore - can only float and mournfully wail - were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
UK Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe. First focus: £8.7bn of unusable PPE bought during the pandemic. A gimmick to manage public opinion or will anyone be prosecuted - Grenfell, Leveson, infected blood, Post Office, banking crimes ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Covid corruption commissioner gets to work
Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.
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Alison Leary @alisonleary1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
'Doctors, charities and MPs' are not the primary providers of end of life care. I wonder if anyone bothered to ask nurses who actually do this work or thought to address the 50% loss of district nurses
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