Recently I had to pop into my clinical workplace where I do the (very) occasional shift to undertake my mandatory training. Now I had best be honest about this and confess that it’s not my favourite day of the year, if there’s a way to kill interest in a topic then calling it “mandatory” does…
Author: Teresa Chinn
A new cohort of PUNCs
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Context collapse
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The day the world stopped …
The day the world stopped …. I remember it really well as it was the day after my daughters birthday. Though I suppose it wasn’t really a sudden stop, but rather a gradual slow down over a few days; first the vulnerable were told to stay in, then the schools closed, then the restaurants and…
The eye of the storm
I have been trying to write this blog for some weeks now, I have made copious notes and voice memos to myself, I have written it and re written it in my head over and over but not only I have I been unable to find the right words I have not been able to…
Covid-19 & our digital mental health
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These times
I have heard so much over the past week that these are trying times, or difficult times, or hard times, or unprecedented times and people aren’t wrong they most definitely are. The emergence of the Covid-19 virus means that as nurses we are facing, and will face, challenges we have never faced before. One of…
Fireworks
For those of you who like me have been on Twitter for a number of years you will know that Twitter has changed significantly… some of the changes have been great and done not so great (ahem star / favourite button!) One of the things that has stayed the same though is “what’s happening in…
Six Twitter Hats
Have you ever come across this: These are, of course, de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats (more info HERE) the idea being that in order to have a productive meeting participants should direct their thinking in each of these areas, by metaphorically putting on these hats. However I do wonder if we have a naturally affinity…