Have you ever come across this: These are, of course, de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats (more info HERE) the idea being that in order to have a productive meeting participants should direct their thinking in each of these areas, by metaphorically putting on these hats. However I do wonder if we have a naturally affinity…
Category: Thoughts
Looking after ….us !
Last week I spent a day at the Chief Nursing Officer for England’s Annual Conference (#TeamCNO) and whilst tweeting in the lead up to the conference I challenged Sam Sherrington and Kath Evans to write a blog about one thing that resonated with them during the conference. Kath has already written her blog post HERE…
Kindly disagreeing
I have spent quite a while thinking about this blog post, it’s a tricky one to write as finding the right words is important. I love social media and I love nursing …. but there is a huge negative to being an active and vocal nurse on social media in that sooner or later someone…
The wonder of social media
Over the last week or so I have been carefully constructing a blog around unkindness in social media spaces …. this is not that blog …. but I am telling you this, dear reader, because it gives a little context. The reason I have been constructing a blog around unkindness is because I have seen…
Fit to practice
For Christmas I was given a brilliant little book of facts (2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks) and for most of Christmas Day I stunned (ok – bored) my family with snippets of information and all was going well until I came across this on page 478: Wow! Just wow! Of course…
Monday morning
There was a time when on a Sunday evening I would take time to sit and plan my working week. I thought it helped me to focus and plan before the dreaded Monday morning hit … but I am not sure it did. In reality I was just a thief stealing time from precious weekend…
Blown over by #10kfornurses
Over a year ago now Paul Jebb (@pauljebb1) and I had a conversation on Twitter that was all about avoiding running a marathon. As a reluctant runner 10k is about my limit and Paul pretty much confessed the same … so we decided to run a 10k together. As passionate and proud Nurses it seemed…
Nurses uniforms are stupid
Sometimes I will write a blog and put a deliberately provocative title at the top to hook people in … however this time my sentiments are exactly what the title says … nurses uniforms are stupid !! I hate to state the obvious but it’s been hot … very hot … and when it’s hot…
Inches and miles
I have sat down several times over the past week to write a blog post and each time written a paragraph and then given up … it’s not that I don’t have anything to say, but rather that I have too much to say ! Last week was a incredibly busy week for me, with…
Blogging, nursing and lots of bicycle analogies!
Whilst helping a nurse friend to get blogging this week I noticed that my first blog post on this website was 5 years ago … although I had an anonymous blog before this one .. this blog marked my decision to be me in social media. Back then I both tweeted and blogged under “Agency…