This time last year I wrote a blog called β2020 .. a year for us!β in which I shared my hopes for the year of the nurse and midwife, I wrote: βWhat a time and opportunity to reset and think again β¦. 2020 year of the nurse. What better time for me as a nurse…
The Nursiest Nurse
Think of the Nursiest Nurse you know … you know the one … the one who we all want to be like, the Nurse who is knowledgeable, confident, courageous, and is the best Nurse you have ever met. Now imagine that Nurse tells you that they want to leave nursing … this is what happened…
Socially distanced (mandatory) learning
Recently I had to pop into my clinical workplace where I do the (very) occasional shift to undertake my mandatory training. Now I had best be honest about this and confess that it’s not my favourite day of the year, if there’s a way to kill interest in a topic then calling it “mandatory” does…
A new cohort of PUNCs
This blog post is in the form of a vlog …. press play to discover all about PUNC20
Context collapse
This blog is in the form of a vlog … enjoy π
The day the world stopped …
The day the world stopped …. I remember it really well as it was the day after my daughters birthday. Though I suppose it wasn’t really a sudden stop, but rather a gradual slow down over a few days; first the vulnerable were told to stay in, then the schools closed, then the restaurants and…
The eye of the storm
I have been trying to write this blog for some weeks now, I have made copious notes and voice memos to myself, I have written it and re written it in my head over and over but not only I have I been unable to find the right words I have not been able to…
Covid-19 & our digital mental health
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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…