Wow it’s been hot lately ! Temperatures have reached 30c quite a few times in the last 10 days or so and I have found myself worrying: My first thoughts were for our children – Did they have sunscreen? A hat? Water bottles for school? Were they cool enough (in the cold sense not the…
Category: Nursing & Social Media
Inspire and be inspired
The last few weeks have flown by in a flurry of tweets and blogs it seems – ever since we first launched #70nursebloggers and #70midwifebloggers I have found myself attached to my computer … in a good way! The idea behind #70nursebloggers and #70midwiifebloggers is simple … inspire 70 nurses and 70 midwives to get…
The positive side of leaving digital footprints
Being a nurse who advocates social media I often come across doubters – those people who say that nurses shouldn’t use social media on a professional basis as it will damage their reputation and that of their organisation, those who doubt that social media can do good and those who firmly believe that as nurses…
Strategy AND Policy
I have been thinking a bit lately about social media and what we need to move social media forward in nursing. Even after 7 years of being a Tweeting and Blogging nurse I still hear stories of social media being shot down, of employers and universities emphatically urging nurses and student nurses to steer clear…
Being smart not unprofessional !
Two conversations caught my eye on Twitter last night, both seemed to get a lot of air time. The first conversation was sparked by this tweet from @DebsCooper131: The tweet got many responses and a good deal of interaction with lots of people tweeting about finding and loosing pens. It was a good fun sort…
Stuck on CPD
I have had a few conversations lately both on and offline around continuing professional development (CPD) in nursing, I guess its only natural as more and more of us are revalidating CPD is very much on our minds. However with austerity still very much the order of the day it worries me that many nurses…
Reflecting on a discussion
It’s not long now until I have to revalidate for the first time and I am trying to be super organised. As my revalidation date is at the start of September I thought it best to get everything sorted this side of the summer. I have always been an overly organised person – when we…
That will never work !!
I recently asked a question via a Twitter Poll about nurses use of social media: The results didn’t surprise me too much but what did surprise me was some of the tweets i received in response to this poll. What most surprised me were the comments made in relation to using social media to communicate…
Has it really been a year since #WGT16 ?
As we hurtle towards the end of February I have been thinking lots about this time last year and how we were busy plotting, planning, organising and doing in preparation for February 29th and WeGetTogether or #WGT16. And what a day it was! For me it was definitely one of the busiest days of my…