Nurses ….. it’s about time we talked about lunch ! Not what’s in your lunch box, or your sandwich preference but actually taking a lunch break. I don’t mean grabbing a salad at your desk or eating whilst writing notes … I mean a real actual lunch break! What’s stopping us? Why is it that a…
Category: Thoughts
Open doors
If I had a penny for every time that a someone said to me “we have an open door policy here” … well you know the rest, suffice to say I would be richer than Midas ! Having an “open door” has not only become a buzzword but also a buzzthing (if there is such…
7% of people don’t trust nurses ?
I have a huge passion for nurses, nursing and the nursing voice …. Yep, 100% … and I would never deny that as a long time nurse who believes that nurses can make a valuable impact on the people we care for nursing is something that I unashamedly and proactively advocate. However sometimes I forget that others may…
Abbr.
Years and years ago, at some point in the 1990s I was a very quiet student nurse, mostly scared of everything and everyone and the bane of my life were abbreviations! I recall one handover when the entire time all the qualified nurses talked about were cabbages, I came out very bewildered but eventually plucked…
When the wrong time is the right time
It’s been a year since we first locked down in England – what a year ! As nurses we have been through so much and as the covid tidal wave recedes and advances in a continuous cycle we are finding times to breathe and reflect. I have been managing to do a little breathing and…
These times
I have heard so much over the past week that these are trying times, or difficult times, or hard times, or unprecedented times and people aren’t wrong they most definitely are. The emergence of the Covid-19 virus means that as nurses we are facing, and will face, challenges we have never faced before. One of…
Six Twitter Hats
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…
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…
