Category: Nursing & Social Media

The day following WGT16 I remember reading Roy Lilleys blog post   – Roy always seems so very adept at turning blog posts around very quickly and very eloquent in his posts and his post WGT16 reflections were no exception.  The post talked about how a huge community of NHS workers are in regular touch…

It’s now been a whole week sine #WGT16 .. the coming together of over 250 people all interested in health and social media and I have found myself reflecting on 3 things – the past, the present and the future.  This blog is, therefore, the first in a series of three; This blog post explores…

Oh wow it’s been a long time since I blogged! It’s not for want of topics, ideas or inspiration but merely due to the summer running away with me … I mean, seriously, how can it be October already?? Anyway I have to say that I have missed putting pen to paper (or fingers to…

Have you ever walked into a room full of people and shouted out “I’m holding a party next Wednesday at 8pm please come” and then walked out again ? No I thought not ! It’s just plain weird isn’t it ? So why do people insist in social media spaces on consistently shouting out messages…

We receive a lot of tweets via @WeNurses, in fact some might say more than a lot with @WeNurses engaging 19226 amount of times over the past month “a lot” might be somewhat of a understatement! WeNurses gets all types of tweets from drawing our attention to blogs to people telling us about their day…

I have been doing some spring cleaning … ok yes I know its not spring yet (I live in hope) but the new year always galvanises me into doing some sorting and tidying.  This year with the NMCs revalidation looming over the horizon my spring cleaning has extended to my digital spaces too and I…

This week my V-Log reflects on value in social media … and also a short reflection on my V-Logging experience at the end xxxx Value from tree chinn on Vimeo.

25,000 WeNurses Followers from tree chinn on Vimeo.

I have been thinking a lot about public health and health promotion recently mainly due to the recent week of action #PHPweek and the “At the heart of it all: Personalised care and population health” conference.  Now I do have to say that although health promotion and public health has been occupying my thoughts it…

When I first started WeNurses I was an isolated agency nurse looking for just one other nurse to connect with. It’s really no secret that I didn’t set out to rock the nursing world or conquer the universe I really did just want another nurse to talk to.  I find myself these days often telling…