This blog began in February 2010 in response to a BSN school project for informatics. I started by visiting nursing blogs to try and determine 'what makes nurse bloggers tick'. Get it, nurse's watch, tick? Corny, I know...almost as bad as the proverbial knock, knock joke. Anyway, I soon enrolled in graduate school and this blog has followed right along with me, my partner in work and education. It has provided a reservoir for all kinds of project studies from nursing theory to Wiki development.
Well, who would have thought it; I'm on the web! Nursing Watch was noted in the article below located at Masters in Nursing: Online Nursing Degree Programs in a blog article from Linda. Thank you, Linda! Some of these blogs are sites, which I have visited, commented on, and follow as well. Congratulations to them and give them a read. To review the importance and reasons for nursing blogging you can go back to the first of this blog; otherwise hitch a ride as I continue to finish my MSN in Nursing Education and hope to start a PhD or DNP soon. I have included the article and link below. Enjoy ;)
2010
- Nursing School the Accelerated Route: Follow the blog of a student enrolled in an accelerated BSN program (January).
- The Student Nurse: Read about the adventures of a student nurse who is embarking on a second career (January).
- Travelista, RN: This blogger is pursuing both an ASN/RN and MS in Management (January).
- Just Call Me Nurse…Eventually: A wife and mother decides to return to nursing school (February).
- Nurse’s Watch: Registered nurse with a background in pediatrics, labor and delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn nursing (February).
- Nursebound: A former journalist goes back to school for nursing, where “It’ll only hurt for 16 months” (February).
- The Medical RNinja: A third-year medical student and RN blogs about nursing, medicine and considerations on becoming a doctor (February).
- Mom, Wife, Student, Nurse, Ahhh! This full time executive assistant is starting an evening CNA course and plans to become a nurse (March).
- Nursing & EDS! A 24-year-old with EDS has one more year of nursing school to go. This blog is dedicated to recording the bumps, bruises, and dislocations along the way (March).
- The Nerdy Nurse: A wife and mother and self-proclaimed “nerdy nurse” writes about her experiences (March).
- NurseXY: This nurse is starting a new grad critical care internship on the CVICU in a 1000 bed, Level I hospital in one of the largest metro areas in the country (April).
- R (etired) N: This retired RN still focuses on health, especially for women (April).
- GamecockNurse’s Brave New World: A male emergency room nurse uses this blog to work through the anger and tears to get to the smiles and laughs (May).
- Happy Hospitalist: This blog is dedicated to bringing the latest information about hospitals, hospital jobs, hospital equipment and more to readers (May).
- Madness: tales of an emergency room nurse: This blog is about the adventures of a veteran nurse in an inner city ER (June).
- Frazzled_razzleRN: A wife and mother talks about her return to nursing school (September).
- Tales of a School Zoned Nurse: A school nurse rigid in the frontlines of the war against lice, patching up playground boo-boos, begging parents to bring their child’s emergency medication to school, and helping the snacks in the teacher’s lounge mysteriously disappear (September).
- The Doctor Stole My Stethoscope: Raquel is not Florence Nightingale from her own admission…but she is a nurse and mom who tries to do an above average job at both (September).
- Sam the RN: Sam is an RN in a hospital located somewhere in the U.S. (October).
- The Nursing Ethics Blog: Dr. Nancy Walton is an Associate Professor of Nursing in Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Ryerson University and Dr. Chris MacDonald is a philosopher by training who has written widely in the area of applied and professional ethics, including nursing ethics (October).
