Moving Day Tomorrow: Last Night in Our First Home
With new opportunities for professional growth, often comes a need to relocate and readjust. I'm incredibly blessed with a great new job. Working as a Clinical Informatics Nurse has been a wonderful...
View Article10 Tips For Blogging Success as a Healthcare Professional
A few things that I think has made my experience with blogging more fulfilling and have increased my reach, and consequently expanded the impact of my voice in the blogosphere:
View ArticleBlogging Conferences and Questions
Next year perhaps I can convince some awesome brand that they need The Nerdy Nurse to represent them at one of these fabulous conferences. Social media connections are fantastic, but it would be nice...
View ArticleBlog World Expo Social Health Track: Nerdy Nurse Incoming!
I am attending Blog World Expo 2011 in LA. Being a nurse blogger has brought me so many fantastic opportunities. It was much of the reason I landed my current job, as a clinical informatics specialist...
View ArticleBlog World Expo: Social Media and Passion Inspired by Mom
As I gather my belongings and prepare for my 5 hour flight across this beautiful country, where women have the ability to be successful and leaders, I am reminded that the last time I made it, it was...
View ArticleAct Like a Pro: Owning Your Expertise Confidently
Be confident in your area of expertise. You are an authority, so own it. Forrest Gump said "Now, it used to be I ran to get where I was going. I never it thought it would take me anywhere." Blogging is...
View ArticleOrganize Your Life With NeatReceipts Portable Scanner and Digital Filing...
NeatReceipts is a mobile scanner and digital filing system to help you tame that paper monster in your life. NeatReceipts and the NeatDesk are smart scanning solution that does more than just scan your...
View ArticleShort Takes: Narratives by Nurses–How I got Into Nursing
Johnson and Johnson are continually promoting the nursing profession in a positive light. They highlight nurses and really make me proud of the profession. So when they reached out to me and asked me...
View ArticleLet’s Pin Arizona Board of Nursing and Banner Health: Support Amanda Trujillo...
By now you’ve hopefully heard the buzz among the nursing blogosphere and the social media community about Amanda Trujillo, the registered nurse who was fired by Banner Health after educating her...
View ArticleHow to Avoid The Social Media Teenage Monster in Healthcare and Any Other...
Social media is sort of like a confused teenager at this point. Are you going to create a teenage angel or teenage monster? Just like any juvenile, there are potentials from success and failures. There...
View ArticleYou’ve Figured Me Out: I Blogged About Nurse Amanda Trujillo’s Cause for...
I’m ruined. Yep. My blogging career is over. Wordpress is going to corrupt my database. Studio press is going to take away my Genesis theme. ICANN is going to take away my domain name. The Nerdy Nurse...
View ArticleManaged Hosting By Zippy Kid: How I Got out of the Dashboard and Back to...
There was a time when I my constant tinkering and tweaking broke my blog more often than I’d like to admit. Just as Emergiblog and Nurse Ratched’s Place about how I sat at Blog World Expo for 2 hours...
View Article18 Patient Identifiers HIPAA Defines as Off Limits
Hospitals and healthcare providers every start shaking in their boots when they think of social media and healthcare. They freak out about the possibly of a HIPAA violation. But the fear that is struck...
View ArticleOnline Password Safety Tips For You and Your Family
But do your children know about password safety? Have you taken the time to explain to them how to protect their privacy online by properly managing their passwords? If you aren't already discussing...
View ArticleHow to Really Make Money Blogging
Making money on the internet is not a myth. But it’s not as simple as paying $19.99 to have Freddy in India set you up a website and have it go on autopilot, either. Making money online takes work....
View ArticleThe Business and Busyness of Blogging
I had no idea when I started blogging that I would be able to turn into a part time income. I had not even began to think about the fact that if I was dedicated to it, and made a leap, that I could...
View Article25 Outstanding Medical Blogs By Nurses
I am honored to be included on a list for 25 Outstanding Medical Blogs By Nurses created by QuickMed. Many of the nurses on this list are my friends and I admire their work online. A few of them I've...
View ArticleAllNurses Really Grinds My Gears
Without a doubt, AllNurses.com is one of the largest nursing forums on the web. Heck, they may even be largest. They have an amazing potential to help other nurses connect with each others and help...
View ArticleFrom Blogging to Book Writing
Things have certainly been busy in my neck of the woods. If you’re a regular reader you might have noticed that my updates have been light for the last few weeks. Most of my writing energy has been...
View ArticleCan Nurses Use Blogging and Storytelling to Improve the Nursing Profession?
Most people know that blogging is an excellent way to tell stories and share information. It places power with individuals and allows anyone anywhere the ability to have a voice. But even thought it’s...
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