Category: Nursing & Social Media

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…

I hope I can be forgiven for being one of those people who really never understood how government and parliament effect us and how we affect it.  Day to day living and family life always seemed to get in the way to what seemed to me to be a removed organisation far far away in…

I have to say that I had seen people talking about one page profiles or #onepp on twitter for quite a while and I didn’t really see what all the fuss was about …. The one page profiles seemed to contain a small amount of information that really didn’t seem to mean that much to…

In my blog a few weeks back “Growing up or losing the plot” I admitted to a loathing of the word network and the coldness and mathematically driven language that is nodes and pathways.  In my dislike of this terminology in its relationship to warm, relationship-based and 3 dimensional world that is social media I…