Blogging is something that I might consider doing outside of this class. I think it is a good thing when you need advice. When I have questions or need advice about anything I type it into google and read other people's blog posts about the topic and most of the time it is extremely useful! Blogging in the workplace however is a completely different situation. I think it is very improper and think that you should get information from more reliable sources.
At first, the whole blogging thing was very confusing and I was not very fond of it. But now since I have been doing it a lot more, I am starting to enjoy it! It is also amusing to read other people's blogs and writing styles.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Scrapbooking!!!
For this weeks prompt, we were able to write a blog about anything that we wanted! For my topic, I am going to talk about scrapbooking!
Scrapbooking is both a great way to express yourself and a good way to keep all your memories together instead of them getting lost in time! Scrapbooking lets you be creative and productive!
How do you start scrapbooking? Well, in this blog I will give steps on how to scrapbook! The first step is to find a scrapbook that defines you. For example, mine has flowers on it and is quite simple; this expresses me because I am down to earth and enjoy the simple things in life! The next step is to gather and sort through any memorabilia. These may include:
Scrapbooking is both a great way to express yourself and a good way to keep all your memories together instead of them getting lost in time! Scrapbooking lets you be creative and productive!
How do you start scrapbooking? Well, in this blog I will give steps on how to scrapbook! The first step is to find a scrapbook that defines you. For example, mine has flowers on it and is quite simple; this expresses me because I am down to earth and enjoy the simple things in life! The next step is to gather and sort through any memorabilia. These may include:
- Pictures
- Movie stubs
- Pins
- Entrance wristbands
- Notes
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Week 7 Prompt
I read an article from Bakers online database called "Nursing and medical students benefit from training together" written by Erin Dean. Dean, Erin. "Nursing and medical students benefit from training together." Nursing Standard 25.3 (2010): 9. Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 23 Feb. 2012.Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA238979369&v=2.1&u=lom_falconbaker&it=r&p=HRCA&sw=w. The blog that I read was called Study: "When Nurses are Safer, Patients are Safer". NursingJobs.us, (n.a.), 2012. Retrieved from http://www.nursingjobs.us/blog/tag/workplace-safety/.
The article talks about the importance of nursing students to work with other students to help them become more efficient and effective nurses in the workplace. The blog is about the relation between nurse to patient safety.
I believe both the blog and article have the same audience. The audience is anyone that might be going into or is currently in the nursing field and/or staff of health care facilities to improve their business.
Both the blog and article talk about how to make the workplace a better working environment. In the article it says that if nursing students work together and study together, they will be more prepared for any situation. The blog states how to keep safe as a nurse and lists the top reasons for nursing and patient accident/injury ratio.
I was surprised at how the blog was formatted. It was much more like a scholarly article rather than a random blog compared to the past blogs I have read. It however was a little confusing because it seems like the writer was trying to be formal that it was hard to follow and did not give much detail. The article was a very easy read and went into great detail about the topic at hand. I would much rather read an article rather than a blog. Most authors of scholarly articles know how to keep it formal without speaking in terms that day to day readers cannot understand.
The article talks about the importance of nursing students to work with other students to help them become more efficient and effective nurses in the workplace. The blog is about the relation between nurse to patient safety.
I believe both the blog and article have the same audience. The audience is anyone that might be going into or is currently in the nursing field and/or staff of health care facilities to improve their business.
Both the blog and article talk about how to make the workplace a better working environment. In the article it says that if nursing students work together and study together, they will be more prepared for any situation. The blog states how to keep safe as a nurse and lists the top reasons for nursing and patient accident/injury ratio.
I was surprised at how the blog was formatted. It was much more like a scholarly article rather than a random blog compared to the past blogs I have read. It however was a little confusing because it seems like the writer was trying to be formal that it was hard to follow and did not give much detail. The article was a very easy read and went into great detail about the topic at hand. I would much rather read an article rather than a blog. Most authors of scholarly articles know how to keep it formal without speaking in terms that day to day readers cannot understand.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Week 6 Prompt...My blog thingy is FINALLY working =]
Dunk, Ann Marie, and Jan Taylor. "Understanding and closing the knowledge gaps for graduate nurses." Australian Nursing Journal Aug. 2011: 39. Nursing and Allied Health Collection. Web. 15 Feb. 2012.
This article was about how nurses need more training with handling infection prevention and wound management. There was a study done to prove that even with a little more training, nurses felt more confident with dealing with these kind of things and felt like they had a better understanding of the steps to take. This article has many great points on why nurses need better training.
I believe the audience of this article is nurses, doctor/hospital boards, and college professors/deans. I came to this conclusion because the authors give nurses a way to get more knowledge in these areas. Doctor and hospitals need to take into consideration that schools are not giving proper information and that maybe they should offer some kind of coarse them selves. And for colleges, they need to do something about this. If nurses are not going into their career with the correct knowledge, then the college obvisouly needs to change something to give nurses adequate learning abilities. In the blogs that I have read and commented on have had very broad audiences. They were pretty much for whoever wanted to read.
The content of this article seems very appropriate and professional. Words are spelled correctly and the authors have facts to back up their information. The format was very straight forward which makes it very easy to read. In the blogs that I read, the formats were very informal and easy to read but felt as if the authors did not put as much effort into their posts.
The article is my choice of a reading because they state facts, it is formal, professional, and they are very easy to read. The sources seem much more credible. However, in some cases you do not need to read something so formal. I think if I were looking for an advice column or something of that sort, I would rather read a blog.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Promt 5
The blog I read was "Guidelines that helped me for students and new grads". This blog relates to my future because it is my future. I will be a new grad and will be applying for jobs as an RN. The theme of entries on this blog is help and support. A lot of them are about how to deal with certain issues with being a nurse and obstacles that can and will occur. The audience of the blog seems to be new nurses and nurses that are trying to get a few pointers and are researching.
This blog was very helpful. She was very clear on the point she was trying to make and with helping people. It was an easy read for the most part. There were many misspelled words however which took me back for a second. It made me question her qualifications for a minute. Although some words were either misspelled or misused, it was a good read and made me very excited for my future and a nurse.
This blog was a lot better because it had more information and gave personal opinions and was more of a help read. However, the other blog was easier to read because it was written in bullet points and was all spelled correctly.
This made me want to write some "how to" or blogs that will help people in the long run that I have much experience with. This was a great blog and I appreciated the way she wants to help others succeed!
/http://allnurses.com/member-61908/
This blog was very helpful. She was very clear on the point she was trying to make and with helping people. It was an easy read for the most part. There were many misspelled words however which took me back for a second. It made me question her qualifications for a minute. Although some words were either misspelled or misused, it was a good read and made me very excited for my future and a nurse.
This blog was a lot better because it had more information and gave personal opinions and was more of a help read. However, the other blog was easier to read because it was written in bullet points and was all spelled correctly.
This made me want to write some "how to" or blogs that will help people in the long run that I have much experience with. This was a great blog and I appreciated the way she wants to help others succeed!
/http://allnurses.com/member-61908/
Monday, February 6, 2012
Promt 1
The blog I read was Ten Coaching Tips for Holiday Office Parties by Guest Author Patrick Boyd or The Boyd Law Group, PLLC -- This blog gives ten tips on what to do and what not to do for office parties during the holidays. This was a very direct blog; using bullet points for every aspect of the blog. It was easy to read and felt fast paced. There was not too much writing to read either, it was put together very well. The audience of this blog is most likely some time of boss in an office setting that wants to get the employees all together for a nice holiday social. I think these are great tips. He did a good job on keeping in mind that sexual harrassment can happen and quite frequently does at office social gatherings, especially when alcohol is involved. Something I would blog about would be keeping judgment to yourself and not acting on it. For example, if a patient has been shot and you find out that this patient was the shooter at a school, you need to still do everything you can to save the patient.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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