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You’ve Figured Me Out: I Blogged About Nurse Amanda Trujillo’s Cause for Personal Gain

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I’m ruined.

Yep. My blogging career is over.

Wordpress is going to corrupt my database. Studio press is going to take away my Genesis theme. ICANN is going to take away my domain name. The Nerdy Nurse will die a bitter death in the nursing blogosphere.

How to Support Amanda Tujillo (Arizona Nurse Fired for Patient Advocacy)

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  The nurse bloggers have heard Amanda Trujillo’s story and are responding loud and clear. We have taken her cause to our various social media fortes and are telling the world of her unfortunate story. Patient advocates everywhere have to get a sick feeling in their stomach when they read about a patient’s whose rights [...]

7 Resolutions for the Nursing Profession

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With the new year we make many resolutions to improve our lives. As nurses, we have the unique ability to improve the lives of others on a daily basis. However, there are many nursing issues that we as face on a daily basis. We should be focusing attention on these areas to make the nursing profession and more desirable one to be a part of. We need to band together to ensure the best patient care possible.

Act Like a Pro: Owning Your Expertise Confidently

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Be confident in your area of expertise. You are an authority, so own it.
Forrest Gump said “Now, it used to be I ran to get where I was going. I never it thought it would take me anywhere.” Blogging is to The Nerdy Nurse like Forest Gump it to Running.
I am an expert in using social media to promote innovation in healthcare and technology because I live and breathe it everyday. I am an expert on lateral violence and the methods to be used to combat it because I experience it first hand, have spent countless hours researching the phenomena, and know the legal implications a company can face if they allow it to happen. I am an expert because my passion in the areas of nursing and technology has forced me to constantly strive to promote innovations to help nurses and medical professionals work smarter not harder.

Blog World Expo Social Health Track: Nerdy Nurse Incoming!

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I am attending Blog World Expo 2011 in LA. Being a nurse blogger has brought me so many fantastic opportunities. It was much of the reason I landed my current job, as a clinical informatics specialist ( the nerdiest nursing job ever!).

Patient, Nurse, and Technology Advocate Who Happens To be a Woman: AKA Know-it-All

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Women have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time.Being a patient, nurse, and technology advocate who is also female, is a rewarding challenge.

Navigating the Work Environment: Embracing Zero Tolerance for Bullying, Webinar, Free for ANA Members

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Received an email about a Free webinar for ANA members about lateral violence in nursing and steps to eliminate it. If you are a non-member it is $15. It is part of the Navigate Nursing: ANA Leadership Resources. I’ll copy the contents of the email below for your convenience.It gives 1 CE our if you [...]

10 Reasons Why My Coworkers Don’t Read My Nursing Blog

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With so many healthcare providers on the fence about social media and the risks of liabilities associated with having an online presence, I wanted to take a some times to highlight some of the reasons why I don’t run up to every nurse I work with and tel them “You just have to read my [...]

Nurses Eat Their Young : Resources for Lateral Violence

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  The phenomena that is often laughed off in the nursing profession when nurses refer to it as how “Nurses Eat Their Young” is known by many other terms. These include: Bullying, Horizontal Violence, Lateral Violence, Hostile Work Environment, Harassment, Nurse to Nurse Violence,  Horizontal Hostility, and likely many more that I have not directly [...]

Things They Don’t Tell you When You’re In Nursing School: Advice for New Grads

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not one of these people who grew up being a nurse. It would be nice to say that I put bandages on my dolls, and had dreams of nursing since I was a child. But I just can’t say it. It’s not true. I came to the [...]