This article is not actually a research paper, because I couldn’t get access to the actual research paper, instead it is the newspaper article about the paper. The Article: New study calculates number of deaths caused by poverty Big Idea: Synthesizing 47 different articles into a meta-analysis paper, researchers were able to estimate the [...]
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Tagged as: Public Health,Research Challenge,Social Determinants of Health | Posted in: Blog
In January, while still feeling ambitious, I started a challenge to other nurses to read a research article per week for the year. The point was to push myself to read more research, however in graduate school this is not always a challenge, but I wanted to share what I was reading and push others [...]
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Tagged as: Journal Club,Research | Posted in: Blog
“It can be distressing to read through an open forum and see angry rantings, disillusionment, colleague-bashing, or even confidential patient information being shared online.” [1] p. 24 One of the regular problems, issues, concerns, barriers or any other term you could think to call the object to the use of online tools that is raised [...]
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Tagged as: Nursing,problems,solutions | Posted in: Blog
How individuals represent themselves in the electronic realm will become an increasingly important issue as the use of [social media] increases. [1] Have you ever googled yourself? Perhaps you don’t want to admit it, but maybe that you have searched online for someone else, a friend, a colleague, or someone you met at school or [...]
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Tagged as: medical professional,online,presense,social media | Posted in: Blog
For those of you who have never heard of the Shorty Awards that is alright, they are self-described as “The Oscars or Tony awards for Twitter”. Basically they recognize the wide range of things that are happening through twitter and should be recognized. Click here to see current nominations and rankings. This year the TV [...]
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Tagged as: Nursing,recognition,social media | Posted in: Blog
Recently I had the chance to attend two events that were so refreshing and exciting to take part in. Last week, I took part in the Emerging Leader Forum (ELF) event that brought Michael Kessel, CEO of Cleveland Clinic Canada in for an event entitled What role should the private sector play in Canada’s healthcare [...]
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Tagged as: entrepreneur,events,Innovation,Leadership | Posted in: Blog, Events
![Photographic Wound Documentation [Research Challenge 2]](http://nursingideas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Abstract-art-160x120.jpg)
*Update* There are now five people signed up for the nursing research challenge: J Doe, Terry Schmitt, Joni Watson, Anne Maguire, and Petrina Jensen. This week have been reading articles about wound care documentation, and photographic wound documentation. I really enjoyed a quote in one of them, that relates to why I wanted to work [...]
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Tagged as: articles,Nursing,Research | Posted in: Blog
A couple weeks ago I was invited to speak at the Canadian Nursing Students’ Association’s National Conference. It was a great to be invited back and to have the opportunity to speak with students, especially because I was in their seat less than two years ago. Looking at my resume, compared to previous years speakers, [...]
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Tagged as: experience,Innovation,Nurse,Nursing,student,Technology | Posted in: Blog
Better late than never. So far I have two people joining in the research challenge, and it is not to late if you want to take part. J Doe – 1 article a week Terri Schmitt – 1 article a week One of the great parts about having others take part in the challenge is [...]
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Tagged as: challenge,Innovation,Nursing,Research | Posted in: Blog
Think you have made all your news years resolutions? Think again. This year one of my goals is to keep up with more nursing research issues and trends, if I had an area of practice I would stick with that. To make this happen I am trying to read at least 1 journal article a [...]
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Tagged as: blogging,challenge,group,Research | Posted in: Blog
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