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.

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