June 2009
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Top 10 Nurses to Follow on Twitter
What follows is a guest post from Dena White, a fellow advocate of health and wellbeing who promotes nurses and the medical profession in the health sector.
Twitter is a simple, unique and easy-to-use tool that has everyone wondering why no one has come up with it until now. It may seem a bit ridiculous to some, those who are wondering why anyone would want to use such a tool. However, it is ideal for communicating with people through brief messages, getting feedback on specific topics, updating others on what is going on in your world and best of all, finding out what is on the mind of today’s nurses.
Wanted: Twittering Nurses
Several organizations are reaching out to nurses through Twitter. The site is used to encourage nurses to contribute ideas and converse casually. It is a fun and inventive way to stay on top of the nursing community.
Nursing students can use Twitter to interact with experienced nursing professionals. Seasoned nurses can use the site as a great way to stay in touch with one another and share you daily thoughts with others.
The problem is that nurses are just now discovering the world of Twitter. Therefore, to help spread nursing throughout Twitter, we searched for and found the ten best nurses to follow. Keep in mind that this list may not be all specifically nurses, but also people in related professions such as EMTs and nursing students.
Top 10 Nurses To Follow On Twitter
Nursedotcom – Misty Turner is the director of Nurse.com. She also enjoys politics, social media and networking.
Vickie_Milazzo – Vickie L. Milazzo of Houston, Texas, is known as the pioneer of legal nurse consulting, as well as a best-selling author. She has been training legal nurse consultants for more than 25 years.
RNpathways – Nurse RN is devoted to helping all nurses, and best of all is employee-owned.
pcRN – A legal nurse consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ChristianNurse – A great site out of London, England that provides news and more related to nursing and other healthcare topics.
MyNursing – Steven The Nurse from Miami, Florida, brings us MyNursing.org, “Where a nurse can be a nurse.”
Bob_the_nurse – A psychiatric nurse who is presently employed by a mental health drug team.
WorkingNurse – A great place to find job postings and interesting articles for nurses.
NurseAusmed – A practicing RN from New Zealand who is also an avid blogger.
minoritynurse – Minority Nurse Magazine is a great resource for career, education and the nursing community.
Twitter is a great place to find amazing nurses who are obsessed with online gaming, having fun with their families, passionate about their jobs, and “tweet” about their lives or keep up blogs about the things that they do and the patients that they love. The nurses and nurse-like professionals listed above all have hundreds of followers and are from all different fields of nursing.
You will find professionals from all different nursing specialties on Twitter, everything from ultrasound techs to travel nurses. The links listed above are in no particular order; no one nurse is favored over another. In fact, I recommend that you follow them all to help you stay on top of the nursing community.
Dena White is a freelance author and writes about healthcare career topics, such as how to obtain a nursing degree, tips for job advancement, and more.
Healthy from the Inside Out
In this post, I’m going to look at some of the true benefits of not just living a healthy lifestyle, but being sensible about how to treat yourself in the kind of things that you load up your body with, or choose to avoid in order to gain a better level of overall health and fitness.
Healthy living and a healthy lifestyle are not entirely dependent on your following this or that fitness regime, or healthy exercise schedule. In fact when you really think about it on a common sense level, a healthy lifestyle needs to also come from the inside out.
By this, I mean you need to be very aware of what passes through your lips on the way to your stomach. Food and drink dictate the final outcome of your healthy state, so the saying “you are what you eat” is so very true. That also goes for what you drink, so a little caution and sensible thought put into your food and drink can work wonders with your overall state of health without you making any great changes or sacrifices.
It’s no good exercising down the gym like a lunatic and sweating buckets in order to shed a few pounds if you are simply going to stop off at the local pizza takeaway on the way home and load up with junk food. Similarly its no good to you to stop by your favourite bar and throw a few beers down your throat as reward for your particularly tough workout!
You need to take a whole person approach to health and that means exercising some moderation in all things, including exercise and diet. You can have a cold beer every so often just as you can treat yourself to the occasional pizza if that’s what you like. You have to treat these things as special treats that you award yourself for being good to yourself for several days at a time. That way you don’t restrict yourself to an unreasonable diet regime that you are far less likely to stick to because you hate it!
Be being sensible what you eat and drink, you’ll find that your body will reward you much better for feeding and watering it the right way!
There’s more info in an older post here that continues this mode of thinking and being here at Weight Loss Steps to Health. That post defines some of the better steps you can take to maintain a healthy weight while promoting good health as well.
