Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to spend the day with the CareMakers at NHS Innovation Expo – for those of you who have been hiding under a rock and do not know who the CareMakers are they are a group of volunteer student and newly qualified nurses and midwives who were…
Teresa Chinn: Agent of Change and Ninja??
I have often heard the phrase “agent of change” especially of late with the upcoming NHS Change Day on 13.3.13 but it has never been a phrase that I have applied to myself. Agent of change to me conjures up all sorts of ninja style aggressive fighters that bravely storm the castle fighting the good…
Social Media 1 – Networks 0
Having completed the survey by the NHS Commissioning Board “Compassion in Practice” I must admit I audibly sighed that the theme of the survey leant towards the use of closed networks and I recall a blog I wrote a few months ago which was posted on the WeNurses website and which I have re- posted…
The Nursing Process
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…
The Question
Will the transparency that comes with social media offer our patients greater protection? This was a question that was tweeted to WeNurses this morning, and at the start of the week that sees the release of the Francis report it is a very interesting question indeed. With social media comes transparency, there is no doubt…
The Wheel
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…
The Nursing Social Infographic
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
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…