Category: Thoughts

I am feeling a little under the weather today, sniffing and sneezing and a bit of a headache! I know its coming… my Christmas cold…. but just at the moment I am refusing to say I am ill, in the desperate hope that I can carry on regardless.  Feeling a bot sorry for myself i…

Thanks to the lovely Philip Ball (@hospicemanager) for getting me thinking today by tweeting a link to his freshly baked blog post: Trying #Onepp @WeNurses @Agencynurse @bartontd philspot: A challenge or piece of cake? Being person centred… https://t.co/Os6yQmRcdE — Philip Ball (@hospicemanager) December 15, 2015 In his blog Philip raises a very good point by…

I was pretty over the moon this evening after receiving this Tweet: The reason I was over the moon is that way back at the start of the year I met with Sarah Chapman from the UK Cochrane Centre, Andre Tomlin from the Mental Elf and Sally Crowe from CASP UK and we put our…

After a bust early shift I have to admit to not having really looked at any social media today – but during the 5 minutes I have just spent “checking in” this picture caught my eye: I think its so important that sometime we switch off and relax both as caring nurses and as tweeting…

This morning I briefly scanned down my Twitter stream and this tweet from @maxwele2 caught my eye (original Tweet by @sarasiobhan): Brilliant linguistic analysis of how NHS ‘apologises’- many staff use without thinking @KathEvans2 @johnwalsh88 https://t.co/yzg1VgnJIh — elaine maxwell (@maxwele2) December 12, 2015 Non apologies in communications between @Southern_NHSFT and us. Fascinating analysis by @AllyRgrs…

I was pretty overwhelmed by this flurry of tweets last night:   Its very rare that I stop and look around and really take in the impact that WeNurses is having and Tweets like this often take me by surprise.  WeNurses started because of my own need to connect with other nurses, as an agency…

We are pretty much a family of dyslexics and if I am not tweeting about nursing, social media or cats you can bet that the tweet will be around dyslexia.  The lovely @DiverseLearners brought this tweet to my attention today (original tweet by @ChrisMulryan) : @MariaDuffeyUK @hslonurse @AgencyNurse @Mynameisbekilem @KarenSFranks Short, funny conversation about #dyslexia https://t.co/6pwEwYNbnM…

Wow what a day we had yesterday! We had an amazing trip to have a look around Maxwell Hall for WeGetTogether (#WGT216) Many thanks to Salford University for making us feel so welcome.  I wanted to share with you this wonderful picture of some of the WGT16 team in deep conversation as tweeted by @VanessaLGaritty:…

I am putting my hands up and admitting that this tweet was sent yesterday ..but is happening today: @WeNurses seeing you tomorrow! — Becky Malby (@BeckyMalby) December 7, 2015 Some of the WeGetTogether core team are meeting up at the amazing Salford University to plot and plan the day and take a little look around…

Monday is always my catching up day … catching up on housework, catching up on food shopping, catching up on emails, catching up on work …. Monday never seems to end and when it eventually does I often found that I haven’t caught up on everything that I ought to ! So today, having spent…