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SOS
April 23rd 2013 by @WeNurses
Over the past few years we have found that the #NurseCommunity on Twitter has gone from strength to strength in terms of the way that we support one another, a strong theme that comes out again and again when we talk to you about what you gain from Tweeting as a nurse is support. Invariably in a supportive environment troubles are shared and we have many times received direct messages and emails where nurses have...
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Sharing the pride to CARE
April 6th 2013 by @AgencyNurse of @WeNurses
Nurses shared photos of their nursing memorabilia that to them were their addition to nursing history. They tweeted picture of their badges, pins, first qualified day photos, capes, hats, puffy sleeves and even some original certificates and course material from quite some time ago. Many of these items weren't to hand, partners were sent into attics, “rooms turned upside down” photos were scanned and shared in any way they could be and at 11pm, some 6 hours later (we told you the time was important) and following the Twitter Jailing of the WeNurses account…..
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Host your own #WeNurses
January 22th 2013 by @WeNurses
Following the New Year #WeNurses chat that looked forward to 2013 we have had a great response from people wanting to be guest hosts, so we thought that we would put this into action.
Guest hosting a #WeNurses chat is a great way for individual nurses to share the specialist knowledge and expertise that you have with the online nurse community. You don't have to be a director of nursing or a nurse consultant to guest host as everyone adds value...
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Real action from #MyAction
January 4th 2013 by @philipraball
There has been a healthy debate over the value of the #6C's; for me they represent an opportunity to discover more about nursing, and what nurses and midwives do. The #6C 's also reminded me of the characterisitics of the nurses I had found inspirational in my career. So having submitted #myaction video to #wenurses, I was committed to asking the students for feedback. ...
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#OnDuty Sharing the shifts with thise on duty over Xmas/NYE
December 2012 - Jan 2013
As a little experiment, you know how we like them, we thought we would create a picture wall of those #OnDuty over the festive and celebratory shifts. Tweet us your pics using the hashtag OnDuty and we will pick up your pics and storify them below much like our chat transcripts...
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#WeNurses summary video of 2012
20th December 2012
We have put together some of the many highlights from our first six months of "connecting, driving and supporting" the nursing community, but without your support #WeNurses would be nothing! ...
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Social Media & Midwives 2012-13
17 December 2012
On the 12 th December, Anne Cooper, tweeting as @AnnieCoops, National Clinical Lead for Nursing within the Department of Health Informatics Directorate gave an inspirational talk at the Chief Nursing Officer's conference in Manchester. The presentation was about nurses and other health workers use of social media #SoMe and Anne encouraged senior nurses to engage with using social media and introduced the term ‘Digital Professionalism' which describes the blending of professional and digital behaviours. Nurses seem to be ahead of the game...
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#WeNurses ON TOUR - helping you share how & why nurses should be tweeting
10 December 2012
The lovely people at Made Incredibly Easy , tweeting as @Incredibly_Easy , have provided some funding for WeNurses to provide 3 Twitter workshops, 2 hours in length, with places for 20 attendees per workshop AND free of charge for you! In the New Year we will be sharing with you the benefits that 1000's of nurses get from Twitter through examples and case studies created by tweeting nurses, as well as helping you get signed up to twitter.
Find out how to apply for one of the 3 free sessions...
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CareMakers took Twitter to CNO2012 and #CNO2012 to Twitter
07 December 2012
To be at the very start of something is a privilege but being at the start of something as inspiring as our (and it really is ours) nursing vision and strategy and the birth of the CareMakers at #CNO2012 was not just a privilege but also inspiring, energising and exciting...
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#WeNurses top 10 videos
28th November 2012
A collection of 10 great nurse related videos you shared with us via twitter, collated here for you to enjoy and share...
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The #NurseCummunity #6Cs stats & Infographic **AMAZING**
17th November 2012
Friday 16 th November was the cut-off date for providing views on Jane Cummings (Chief Nursing Officer for England) and Viv Bennetts (Department of Health Nursing Director) consultation document “Developing a culture of compassionate care: Creating a new vision for nurses, midwives and care givers...
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Social media for healthcare research ..
13th November 2012
In traditional Healthcare research it is often hard to get participants together – the joy of using Social Media, uch as the #WeNurses TwitterChats is that here, everyone can join from far and wide. Involvement may be for just 5 minutes or the whole chat, or reading transcripts at a later date and Tweeting responses ‘false-live', reawakening the debate for both new and existing members.
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Last night Twitter "saved my life"...
31th October 2012 by @Salsa442
As a registered Learning Disability nurse with some years experience, I returned from maternity leave to work part time in the job I loved, managing respite services for people with LD and complex health needs. It was a difficult decision to go back to work, and I opted for part time hours, feeling I would be able to increase them ...
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Indroducing & Welcoming #WeMidwives
29th October 2012
Today sees the launch of the latest twitter chat giving Midwifery a dedicated chat on twitter via #WeMidwives and being run by the twitter handle @WeMidwives . The community will embrace not only those formally trained or training in midwifery (tweet chats are a great addition to traditional learning) but also Duolas too.
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What's #WeNurses?
27th October 2012
Not only do we get asked a lot "What's WeNurses", we know you do too! This video helps explain not only where #WeNurses came from, but also what it does, what it means to the community that created it and a few things #WeNurses has done to date.
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The importance of being engaging
by @Agencynurse
I am a strong advocate a community approach to Twitter and believe that community needs to be at the heart of all we do on Twitter – in my series of blogs Twitter And The Elephant I extolled the virtues of community stating “The success of Twitter is down to the community approach – there is no point in just taking what you want from this network and not giving back, if everyone had this approach Twitter would be very dull indeed and be useless within hours!” Which is something that I firmly believe in however I wanted to say a little bit more about engagement and how, when it comes down to engagement on twitter, we need to think of the individual
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Learning disability nursing and the CNO's Vision for Nursing
by @DMarsden49
A few weeks ago I was talking to a musician friend who was mournfully explaining to me about how he wished he had been alive in the 1960's, as he perceived that to be the golden age of music, he then reeled off his about the live acts he had recently seen and the gigs he would be playing over the next few months. It made me think that sometimes we always consider another time to have been much better than now, even though we may never experienced it. ...
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Tweet Chats made simple...
by @WeNurses
Some people have asked lately for a basic guide to twitter chats ….. so here it is, for you to use, pass on and share. Twitter chats are often regular chats that take place at a specific time around a predetermined subject and use a hashtag (#) as a flag that binds a conversation (sometimes they are not planned too), they are an excellent way to use the Twitter professionally to discuss topics with peers (and often beyond piers)..
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The New Vision For Nursing: Important Dates for your Diary
by @WeNurses
25th October - 13th November 2012
Last month Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England and Viv Bennett, DH Director for Nursing published a document called “Developing the culture of compassionate care: Creating a new vision for nurses, midwives and care-givers” The document encompasses the 6C's – care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment stating that these values and behaviours are at the heart of the vision and should be...
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Is Anybody Out There
by Teresa Chinn
2nd October 2012
Two years on from Teresa's plea for help via her first blog she explains how social media has helped her become connected, supported and more confident as a nurse thanks to the community that she is now a part of. For those thinking social media is new this is worth a read...
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The 6 C's & NHS Change Model
Part 2: "The Power of Social Media " by Mandy Hollis
1st October 2012
This final part of Mandy#e blog series looks at the impact that social media had on spreading her ideas abut combining the NHS Change Model with the 6 C's. Following on a from using one of the 6 C's to tweet about her idea Mandy details where her idea has gone, who has had access to it and where she is taking it now with the support of those that were introduced to it via social media...
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How I Use Social Media To Complement My Work
By Sarah Amani
26th September 2012
I signed up for a personal account on Twitter in 2009 but didn't actually start to use it until November 2010. The reason being, I just didn't get what it was about – why were people posting these short sentences – and links? And I couldn't like their posts like on Facebook. And the whole followers thing. How can a person have 70, 000 followers – why were these people following this person? What are they gaining?? I was baffled...
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The 6 C's & NHS Change Model
Part 2: "My Wall Of Inspiration " by Mandy Hollis
24th September 2012
Looking at the 6C's of Nursing: ‘ Care, Communication, Compassion, Courage, Commitment and Competency ' and then looking at our local Trust vision, I realised they were both saying the same thing -‘ Delivering Compassionate Excellence '. Well that's great, but how do you deliver this? What do you need for sustained change...
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Social Media 1 - 0 Networks
21st September 2012
Over the last year or so I have been party to many conversations that have debated the virtues of “closed private networks” against “public social media” within both the social media and nursing world. I am often a long thinker, by which I mean that I will often take a long time to mull things over and form an opinion, and I have listened to healthcare professionals who have raised concerns over the public nature of social media and I have also...
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The 6 C's & NHS Change Model
Part 1: "Coffee - The Original Wonder Drug" by Mandy Hollis
19th September 2012
A great introduction exploring how changes in communication and the availability of different types of knowledge sharing, from within healthcare and patient groups, can provide some answers as to how modern ideologies and changes can benefit from communicating digitally and across social media...
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From @Ninjabetic1 @Type1Nurse
16th September 2012
A compelling journey from discovering diabetes as a teen and supporting others using social media, Laura talks about how the tweeting nurse community has given her the drive and focus to become a nurse and share the experience through her new twitter venture as @Type1Nurse...
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Tweeting for an NHS Trust
13th September 2012
Following a recent blog entitled "The war of the roses" where we explored the style of @NHSleeds tweets following a conversation "with them" on Twitter including several other trusts, @NHSmanchester for one. Consequently we were delighted to be able to work with @NHSleeds to look a little deeper into what tweeting means to them...
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From Students to CNO's
11th September 2012
One of the great things about using Twitter as a nurse is the wonderful nurses that I meet. I not only get a real sense of fellowship and community from the Nurse Twitterverse but as @kathjlo tweeted recently I also get “the knowledge that so many of us are still v passionate about it!! I feel it's been lost a bit with media coverage”...
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Hello #LDnurse chat bought to you via @LDnursechat
7th September 2012
As more and more nurses identify the value of social media it is no wonder that specialty nursing groups will need to connect on more often with each other than maybe other nursing cohorts.
To that end we are really excited that @LDnursechat has been launched by a group of experienced tweeting nurses within the Learning Disabilities specialty, whilst twitter provides an environment for...
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Twitter Communities: Part 3 (Sharing The Elephant)
7th September 2012
In part 1 and in part 2 of this blog we explored peoples differing views of Twitter and compared this to the John G Saxe poem “The blind men and the elephant” and we then went on to look at what the whole of the Twitter elephant looks like. However it's all very well if WE know what the elephant looks like but this does not embrace the fundamental principle of a sharing community that makes Twitter so successful...
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Twitter Communities: Part 2 (The Whole Elephant)
5th September 2012
In the last blog (see part 1 here) we looked at how people's views of Twitter differ and why it is that Twitter is different things to different people – rather like the John G Saxe poem “The blind men and the elephant.” So what happens if we zoom out and have a look at what the whole of Twitter looks like...
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War Of The Roses
4th September 2012
Those of you who were up late last night may have noticed, or even participated in a ground breaking twitter discussion. NHS Leeds and NHS Manchester jumped out of their corporate suits and became human. The transformation was amazing to watch – I have long since felt that trusts are too robotic on...
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Twitter Communities: Part 1 (The Elephant)
2nd September 2012
I recently had a Twitter conversation about the importance of community on Twitter. I was trying to get my point across, slightly hampered by the 140 characters, that it is important that people and particularly health care professionals understand that Twitter is a community in order to use it to its full potential...
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A community to be proud of
24th August 2012
What started as a seed of an idea from one dedicated and open minded nurse has grown over time to become an absolute shining example of how to build a digitally connected professional community...
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#WeNurses & #NurseShift bring you twitter chat netiquette
21th August 2012
Two of the hosts of the most popular twitter chats combine thoughts to bring a guide to getting the most out of twitter chats, through suggestions to appropriate conduct and advice if things go wrong.
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#WeNurses welcomes #NurseShift
20th August 2012
WeNurses are very proud to welcome @NurseShift to the WeNurses site and we hope that this will be the start of a wonderful friendship leading to collaborative work for the nurse community.
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#WeNurses goes weekly!
18th August 2012
#WeNurses chats will be held every Thursday at 8pm and to be honest we have had so many chat suggestions from the online nurse community that if we continued with fortnightly chats we would have never got around...
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How to get the best out of twitter chats and CPD
14th August 2012
So you have either been twitter chatting for a while and thought about using the time for CPD, or you are looking for great ways to spend time with other nurses and use for CPD? Well, now either way here's a helping hand...
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Why the face of NHS Jobs relyse on nurse twitter chats
4th August 2012
During this year I have, through Twitter, become part of an ever growing community of nurses and other HCP who are using this form of Social Media to connect and share ideas and information. I've become hugely passionate about it and I am lucky enough to have found so many great professionals who are sharing ...
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Teresa Chinn RN video-blogs "Why communities are about people not brands..."
4th August 2012
@AgencyNurse , talks about what the nursing community means to her and how it underpins the development of an excellent service from nurses. Teresa continues to express that communities, united by social media, aren't about brands and companies but it's about people...
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Anne Cooper video blogs for #NurChat birthday
31th July 2012
Anne is the national clinical lead for nursing, providing clinical leadership in the development of informatics policy for the Department of Health, watch what #NurChat has meant for her professionally and personally.
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Happy Birthday #NurChat (my smiley moments).
26th July 2012
1 year ago I was one tweeting nurse … now we are a thriving, growing and evolving community of nurses. What an ground breaking first year it has been, one which you the nursing community should be proud of because you all played a part in the development of this amazing resource.
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