Category: Nursing & Social Media

xxx On Thursday this week I got up very early and trundled off to London for the CCIO Annual Nursing conference. The conference had lots of great speakers but one speaker stood out for me: xxx xxxx Sarah Amani is a mental health nurse turned manager and I have been following her on Twitter and…

Sunday 12th May was International Nurses Day and the online #nursecommunity came together and shared.  The nursing community has gone from one tweeting nurse to over 6000 proud and passionate nurses and this pride and passion shone through on Sunday.  Now I could go on … or I could just show you what happened ……

I have been thinking a lot this week about nurse community – Sunday being International Nurses Day WeNurses are hosting a Nursing History Twitter Share-a-thon and photos showing our proud nursing history and blogs telling our own nursing stories are being shared already.  I have been so very touched by everything being shared that I…

This is the last blog in my 5 Reasons series – a few weeks ago I explored 5 reasons nurses give for why they don’t (or won’t) use Twitter and last week I looked at 5 reasons why nurses should use Twitter. This blog post is all about what nurses should know when starting out…

Share this post via a Tweet  In my last blog post I explored “5 reasons nurses give for why they don’t (or won’t) use Twitter” and advocated that commonly given excuses are really just excuses … and we can get around them very easily in our quest to show others the value of the nursing community. …

Part 1  Share with a Tweet One of the hardest things to do as a nurse that uses and advocates social media is to ignite that spark in others and help them to see the value.  My next three blog posts are entirely dedicated to the excuses, the reasons why nurses should use Twitter and…

I recently had a conversation with a group of nurses and their comms department – The nurses were really fired up about social media and wanted to tweet and share and explore, however the comms department were slightly more risk orientated and wanted to control everything.  The solution the comms department came up with was…

  I am a big believer in not re-inventing the wheel and an interesting feature of social media is that sharing, borrowing and evolving is fine.  We don’t always have to come up with new inventions,sometimes we can apply new uses to old principles or tap into things that are already in a social space…

Share with a Tweet I would like to share with you this  infographic of the Nursing Social data in my previous blog post The Baseline

Share with a Tweet In this, my first blog post on teresachinn.co.uk and as the founder of @WeNurses (Twitter chats for nurses) I want to share this data study with you, but please bear with me as this is rather a long post – I promise to try not to make a habit of it! If…