This blog has a variety of content around nursing, through to family life and current events.
My attempt to keep up the #100WorkingDays in 2022 to reflect and recollect foundered after the death of my mum. In 2024 I’m refreshing my blog hoping to be better at making regular contributions.
The blog content is entirely mine and does not represent the views of my employer or other organisations. Spelling mistakes may occur!
One approach may be to say nurses don't need publicity for doing good things; certainly the posted comments on the NT site reflect the stance that a thank you is good enough. Another way of looking at it is to remember that failing to publicise good practice keeps good ideas away from our colleagues. Not everyone is motivated to look at journals or contribute to them - indeed I think nursing is very bad at doing this - compared to the field of education. We don't all seek the limelight for personal gratification but let's not keep quiet because some of the profession assume that those who have shared their good ideas are self seeking publicists. Nursing needs positive publicity - to encourage it as a career choice, and to remind those who are facing challenges in service improvement that someone else might have found tools that are useful for us. That is putting patients first, not ourselves.
One approach may be to say nurses don't need publicity for doing good things; certainly the posted comments on the NT site reflect the stance that a thank you is good enough.
ReplyDeleteAnother way of looking at it is to remember that failing to publicise good practice keeps good ideas away from our colleagues. Not everyone is motivated to look at journals or contribute to them - indeed I think nursing is very bad at doing this - compared to the field of education. We don't all seek the limelight for personal gratification but let's not keep quiet because some of the profession assume that those who have shared their good ideas are self seeking publicists.
Nursing needs positive publicity - to encourage it as a career choice, and to remind those who are facing challenges in service improvement that someone else might have found tools that are useful for us. That is putting patients first, not ourselves.