Category: Personal reflections

This blog has been rattling around in my head for a few weeks now, mainly because I wanted to find the right words to share my thinking.  Sometimes I feel that we have to be careful with our words so that we don’t get misinterpreted .. I hope that I have chosen the right words…

When I was a student nurse someone told me a story that went something like this: One day Mrs Jones went into hospital for a minor operation. Before the operation the consultant came to the ward to see Mrs Jones and said “Hello Mrs Smith I am your consultant Mr Brown” Mrs Jones, quite rightly corrected Mr…

I think that’s it’s time to open up the debate on the term resilience – I have a problem with resilience, I know its en-vogue currently for nurses to be resilient, and in theory I get why, but in reality I am not so sure. How about we start this with a definition …. The…

I was looking down my Twitter stream this week when I came across a really though provoking question: Pondering upon why the caring professionals often find it hard to ask for help when they need it themselves? #CarersNeedCaringForToo — Ruth Sanders (@ruthalexsanders) June 22, 2015 I found it thought provoking for a good reason, and…

It feels almost like it was yesterday – my exit interview at the nursing agency I worked for – I can hardly believe that it is actually getting on for 3 years ago now, but I will never forget the words of the manager who conducted that interview.  This was the manager who would laugh…

Reflections on #Carespace from tree chinn on Vimeo.

I have been thinking a lot lately about the student nurse journey and becoming a newly qualified nurse, Twitter has been awash with nurses starting out, student nurses qualifying and newly qualified nurses getting their first jobs.  In addition to this #WeNurses this coming week discussing Supporting Nurses With Specific Learning Needs on Tuesday and…

Foreword After my first day at RCN Congress this year my initial thoughts were “funny old day” It was pretty amazing to meet so many wonderful and passionate Tweeting nurses however it felt “weird” to not to have the #nursecommunity invited in via a Twitter wall in the main hall.  I also have some mixed…

I am not sure how many times in my nursing career I have written Mrs Y is at risk of falls because of reduced mobility due to X,Y or Z but I am pretty sure that it must run into the thousands, however they do say until you walk a mile in another mans shoes…

A few weeks ago I had my own words read out to me (and many others) at a conference.  Now it’s always a bit weird when someone quotes something you have said but on this occasion it was on a whole new level …. A while back I wrote a blog that wasn’t my usual…