As fall is upon us men and women, young and old are entering nursing classrooms and learning environments around the world. Whether diploma, degree, graduate students or PhD research there is so much to learn. No matter how much you learn, there is so much that is not being taught. As my undergraduate is further [...]
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Tagged as: advice,biology,health assessment,student | Posted in: Blog
The problem is Google forgot how the internet works, and this why Google Health failed. For those of you who missed it, Google Health was a personal health record (a place to track your health information) that launched a few years ago and Google recently decide to slowly shut down. Now what I mean by [...]
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As many of you may know, I recently finished my courses for my Masters of Nursing at the University of Toronto (a university in the heart of Toronto). This brings about a new phase in life, the job search, which I hope to write more about in the next coming weeks. However, I’ve been blessed [...]
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Tagged as: Employment,Job | Posted in: Blog
Focus, it is something we are constantly struggling for in today’s world, in so many ways. I’ve recently come to the idea that along with the increased focus in my life I want to bring that focus on my use of technology. One way that I think my life is out of focus is mobile [...]
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Tagged as: Apps,Clutter,iPhone | Posted in: Apps, Blog, iPad, iPhone
Jared Sinclair recently asked me if I had seen “Keep your crisis small” by Ed Catmall President of Pixar (creators of Toy Story). The talk was recorded at a Stanford Business School event. It is a fantastic lecture on why business fail, which learns from Pixar’s success. It is a great video and worth watching if [...]
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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
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