Over the course of my career as a nurse I have had the privilege of meeting and working with a number of Queens Nurses and all of them have been the most amazing role models for nursing in the community, demonstrating compassion and championing high quality care and a person centred approach…. in short they…
Walk like a Nurse
I have always been conscious that I have a “nurses walk.” I am sure you know what I mean. It’s the type of walk that is twice as fast as all your non nurse friends and family, It’s a walk where your head is thinking about the next thing you need to do and it’s…
Squishing hierarchies
One of the things that I have always loved about nursing social media is that hierarchies are irrelevant. The way that a nursing student can contact a chief nursing officer, or a director of nursing can chat with a newly qualified nurse, or even a professor of nursing can engage with a person who is…
Looking ahead & making plans
This year marks the 10th anniversary year for WeNurses ….10 years … yes I know …wow ! Looking back and reflecting there have been many changes over those 10 years. Over the last two years in particular the pandemic has caused a rapid acceleration in the uptake and use of social media and this has…
Pain – believe, evidence, act, escalate!
How many times have you heard someone say “pain is what the patient says it is”? I have heard this a lot of late, so much so that I am beginning to question it’s credibility. It was in 1968, over 50 years ago, that McCaffrey defined pain as “it’s whatever the experiencing person says it…
Lunch ?
Nurses ….. it’s about time we talked about lunch ! Not what’s in your lunch box, or your sandwich preference but actually taking a lunch break. I don’t mean grabbing a salad at your desk or eating whilst writing notes … I mean a real actual lunch break! What’s stopping us? Why is it that a…
Open doors
If I had a penny for every time that a someone said to me “we have an open door policy here” … well you know the rest, suffice to say I would be richer than Midas ! Having an “open door” has not only become a buzzword but also a buzzthing (if there is such…
What next?
This blog is part of the WeNurses Social Media May focus month – find out more about how to get involved here I have been doing this social media and nursing lark for a good few years now … and I have to say that it has had a huge impact on me, both in terms of my nursing career and my…
7% of people don’t trust nurses ?
I have a huge passion for nurses, nursing and the nursing voice …. Yep, 100% … and I would never deny that as a long time nurse who believes that nurses can make a valuable impact on the people we care for nursing is something that I unashamedly and proactively advocate. However sometimes I forget that others may…
Abbr.
Years and years ago, at some point in the 1990s I was a very quiet student nurse, mostly scared of everything and everyone and the bane of my life were abbreviations! I recall one handover when the entire time all the qualified nurses talked about were cabbages, I came out very bewildered but eventually plucked…