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…
Category: Thoughts
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…
Gathering viewpoints – having & eating cake!
I have been engaged in a few projects recently where we have taken the time to step outside of the expertise in the room and ask people beyond the project their thoughts and ideas. Now we all know that in theory this is what we should do .. but in reality is it really worthwhile?…
What makes a good blog?
After months of not blogging rather surprisingly @SarahChapman30 tweeted me asking for some advice on blogging. Luckily she also copied in @AnnieCoops and @ProfJuneG too – who blog in a slightly more organised and less rambling way than myself. The Twitter thread unravelled some great suggestions and you can read it HERE. The conversation got…
That will never work !!
I recently asked a question via a Twitter Poll about nurses use of social media: The results didn’t surprise me too much but what did surprise me was some of the tweets i received in response to this poll. What most surprised me were the comments made in relation to using social media to communicate…
A challenging week
Challenging practice is perhaps one of the most difficult things that a nurse has to do. Seeing practice that is harmful or potentially harmful is not only upsetting but also can be very stressful. Having found myself in a “challenging” situation this week I can testify that it makes you question yourself, your judgement and…