Below is a SlideShare of #RNchat for Friday February 19, 2010, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Topics were:

T1 Grievances: What are best practices for grievances? When should nurses go public? How should they proceed?

T2 Pharmaceutical Industry: Is the industry sufficiently supportive of nursing? How should they be involved? What can they do for us?

T3 Women’s Health: What Dx and Tx disparities do you still see between men and women?

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

Tonight’s #RNchat at 9pm EST will include topics from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I’ve been working with them to get a discussion on RNchat about the future of nursing education and I’m very pleased that we will host tonight’s chat.

In order for the nursing profession to advance more fully, nursing education must undergo evolutionary leaps in its methods and purposes. I’m very happy that we have the participation and interest of RWJF.

Here’s a description of what we’re doing tonight:

Nursing Education: Peering into the Future

Special Edition of #RNChat

For the past year the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine has been gathering information, insight and guidance on the role of nurses in the health care system with the goal of producing a transformational report on the future of nursing. This report, due to be published in late 2010, will define a  clear agenda and blueprint for action on nursing with bold national recommendations for changes to public and institutional policies at the federal, state and local levels.

The Initiative has held forums, received and read testimony from nurses and nursing group, commissioned research, tweeted, blogged and joined together Facebook fans. Now we’re looking to engage the faithful following of RNChat.

The Initiative on the Future of Nursing will hold one last forum on nursing education on February 22, 2010 in Houston, TX. To help start the conversation for the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Education, and add new voices in the process, we’re participating in a special edition of RN Chat, Nursing Education: Peering into the Future on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 9 p.m. ET. The chat will focus on the theme of Nursing Education to help broaden the dialogue on this important issue.

Topics for this RNChat include:

1. What was missing from your nursing education?  What would you change?
2. Should nursing education continue to be based on time spent in the classrooms/training or on achieving specific competencies?
3. What do you think about online programs?

So join us tonight at 9pm EST. You can follow the conversation on Twitter Search by viewing here. You can also view and participate using TweetChat – just sign in and add RNchat and you’ll be able to follow along easily. And be sure to follow @RNchat on Twitter for future updates.

@PhilBaumann

Below is a SlideShare of #RNchat for Friday February 12, 2010, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). The chat was moderated by Ellen Richter (@EllenRichter on Twitter).

The #WinklerRNs case was the topic of conversation. In Winkler County, Texas, nurses who went through the torment of being charged for leaking private medical information. One of the nurses went to trial and was acquitted within one hour. Now the nurses are responding

This is an important case, one which – among many other things – highlights the need for swift and bold and sturdy nursing organizations. This case isn’t just about defending nurses: it’s ultimately about the safety of patients, the ethical fiber of nurses and doctors and administrators and government officials. Had Anne Mitchel been found guilty, the ramifications could well have been ominous for the integrity of our entire health care landscape.

Friday’s RNchat, discussed topical features of this case: the best practices for whistle-blowing and how to get more organizations behind nurses and the public. Feel free to share the presentation below.

Let’s hope that nurses don’t become scapegoated victims. Do nurses make technical mistakes? Sure they do – we all do. But it’s critical that nurses never feel afraid of expressing their sincere perceptions, their intuition nor their ethical belief system. People can die under those circumstances.

Nurses are the last Jedi Nights of our faltering Republic. A cheesy metaphor? Yes. But it’s true. Anne Mitchell and the other nurses involved in this case are Jedi Knights who fought through a derangement of how ethics and law and responsibility should work.

Anne Mitchell has gone through a Kafka-like hell. Let’s hope she receives comfort and equity and sanity.

NOTE: We also are preparing for a special even in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Details upcoming soon!

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

Below is a SlideShare of #RNchat for Friday February 5, 2010, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Topics were:

T1 Domestic Violence – How better (or worse) are healthcare, legal & community systems doing w/DV?

T2 Nursing News Sources – Where do you get your news on the profession? What are top sources? Blogs, Journals, etc.

T3 Community Nursing – What’s the current state of community nursing? What specific areas need attention?

T4 Tech Trends – What are the biggest trends in h/c & nursing tech? (Web, mobile, devices)

We also are preparing for a special even in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Details upcoming soon!

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

Below is a SlideShare of #RNchat for Friday January 29, 2010, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Today’s topics were:

T1 Nursing Informatics: What would you include in a Nrsg Informatics undergrad program?

T2 Green Nursing: What efforts to “green” nursing have you seen. What are biggest priorities?

T3 Unrestricted Visiting Hours: What are your thoughts? What might justify restrictions?

T4 Apple’s iPad: Do you think such a devise is worth investing in? How could it improve nursing process?

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

Below is a SlideShare of #RNchat for Friday January 22, 2010, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Today’s topics were:

1. T1 Psych Nursing: What are the biggest hurdles to proper treatment? (Not just for “Psych RNs” here – all Nursing.)
2. T1 As a follow-up: in your opinions has Psychiatry evolved much in 50 yrs? Or has it been neurobiology & psychopharm doing legwork?
   
3. T2 Nursing Challenges: What are the worst things about Nursing? What can be done to make changes?
4. T3 Internet Health: As the world increasingly uses the (Social) Web, what are the downsides? Addictions potential?

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

Below is a SlideShare of today’s #RNchat, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Today’s topics were:

1. T1 Tape: We’ll start light. So, tell us: how do you use tape? Are you honoring the stereotype?
2. T2 Celebrity Docs: Any “famous” docs who stand out for their online or offline media presence? Any nurses?
3. T3 Education Advancement: How important is building academic credentialing? Any programs matter the most?
4. T4 Internet’s Influence: How has the Internet changed Nursing? What hasn’t it change?

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

My friend Ellen Richter was very kind enough to answer my request for a moderator of RNchat held last night. One of my original goals in founding RNchat was to take advantage of the incredibly diverse range of nursing experiences and have several moderators. The benefits are obvious: every nurse has unique perspectives and experiences and opinions and having different moderators enriches the kinds of conversations we can have on these Twitter chats. Furthermore, I would eventually like to invite doctors and patients and patient activists and many others to moderate these chats. And I don’t want to exclude LPNs or CNAs (RNchat is just a shorter username than NurseChat).

Please let me know if you’re interested in moderating – either email Info@RNchat.org or hit me on Twitter: @PhilBaumann.

Below is a SlideShare of today’s #RNchat, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Today’s topics were:

1. Robo-nurses.
2. Using software to deliver care using algorithms & decision-trees.
3. Malpractice Litigation

You can download the file or view it in Full Screen mode as a slide show:

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org. Ellen did a fantastic job and my invitation to her and anyone else is open.

Below is a SlideShare of today’s #RNchat, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Today’s topics were:

1. Work Satisfaction: For nurses who are struggling with love of the profession, what are the reasons? What can help?
2. Shortage of Willing Nurses: What realistic things can be done to quell the shortage?
3. Thank You: How often do you hear that from the lips of administrators?

You can download the file or view it in Full Screen mode as a slide show:

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.

Below is a SlideShare of today’s #RNchat, organized in chronological order (from beginning of chat to sometime just after). Today’s topics were:

• T1 h1n1 Vaccine: Do facilities have a right to mandate nurses to get vaccinated? #RNchat
  T2 Education Requirements: Should a BSN be the minimum requirement for RN? Why or why not? #RNchat
  T3 Fall prevention: What are best practices? Are dangerous practices still being taught/reinforced? #RNchat
• T1 h1n1 Vaccine: Do facilities have a right to mandate nurses to get vaccinated?
• T2 Education Requirements: Should a BSN be the minimum requirement for RN? Why or why not?
• T3 Fall prevention: What are best practices? Are dangerous practices still being taught/reinforced?

You can download the file or view it in Full Screen mode as a slide show:

As always, thank you to those who joined today. If you’re new to #RNchat, just follow @RNchat on Twitter and we’ll provide updates and links on how to make the best use of this nursing chat. You can also send inquires to info [at] RNchat [dot] org.