This post is for any and all nursing managers, educators, directors, researchers, or executives- actually anyone working at a hospital that is given one monitor for their desk. Would you ever consider allowing you work to give you an desk the same size as when you were in elementary school? I hope I am not [...]
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Tagged as: Healthcare,Nursing,productivity,student,Technology | Posted in: Blog
Free time is not something that nurses have a lot of. Even as a student there is always to much to do and never enough time. Last summer I came across a talk that really convicted me of this. Dr. Randy Pausch became all to away of the need to manage time after he was [...]
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Tagged as: Time Management | Posted in: Blog
In the last four years my inbox has changed from being something I would occasionally check and infrequently get messages from friends. Recently my inbox has become something I compulsively check and that can dominates my life. The worst part is that even though I often check my email, and find things I need to [...]
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Tagged as: Nurses,productivity | Posted in: Blog
Recently I’ve been asked to write a book for the series “The Nurses Advantage.” As you may, or may not, have guessed from the title the point is to help explain different topics (Communication, Etiquette) that are useful to nurses. The basic format is to run through the basics, in a largely question and answer [...]
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After launching this website in 2008 through word of mouth and search traffic Nursing Ideas has continued to slowly grow. Lately things have been picking up a bit more speed and reaching new heights. This year for Nursing Week Nursing Ideas was feature in the Toronto Star and just this week and article was published [...]
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Tagged as: Media,Nurses,Nursing,Technology | Posted in: Blog
If you want to be a technology evangelist then you need to understand the technology. That and a hundred other half baked justifications (excuses), a bit more student debt, one expensive trip to the Apple store and this nurse has an iPad.
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Tagged as: Apps,iPad,Nurses,Nursing Students | Posted in: Blog, iPad
On June 7th 2010 I attended Ryerson’s Nursing Research day, it was a fantastic day and there were some great presentations. As nurses continue to increase their research efforts and knowledge translation events like this become more important. It was great to hear the research that was happening, within the university and the international visitors [...]
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For those of you that have an website Editz.com is something worth considering!
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The word “unconference” gets a mixed reaction from many, in healthcare it is usually more confusion then skepticism. For those of you that don’t know, the unconference was born out of the technology industry. They are about 4-5 years old depending who you ask, and they focus on participation by attendees. The wikipedia article on [...]
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I often wonder why individuals and organizations in healthcare have really taken to the social media and usually look down on “blogging”. Perhaps it is caused by mainstream media’s mentioning of twitter or others promises of what social media will do for healthcare. If you cringe at the thought of your organization blogging or even [...]
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