Medicine in Social Media
Nursing in Social Media
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One of the most active online medical communities is dedicated to nurses as the number of nursing-related websites is enormous. Nursing in Social Media helps you find relevant resources.

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Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed


Micro-blogging is the practice of sending brief text updates, photos, audio/video clips or links and make these public on a website and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. These messages can be submitted by text messaging, instant messaging or e-mail.

Many micro-blogs provide short commentary about medical news, medical specialties or a company's products and services.

Webicina features two microblogging platforms including Twitter and Friendfeed.



Nursing on Twitter


Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.



Nursing News / Organizations

AJN Nursing Journal
The American Journal of Nursing is the leading voice of nursing since 1900.

allnurses
The #1 Nursing Community

ANA Government Affairs
ANA Government Affairs is leading the fight for nurses on Capitol Hill. Follow us as we make sure that the issues facing nurses and their patients are front and center.

Get Nursing Job
Nursing jobs, careers and community site.

MNT Nursing News
The latest nursing news published daily. Articles from research centers, universities and prestigious journals.

NurseTogether.com
A daily dose..er, TWEET of nurse empowerment, encouragement and enjoyment.

Nursing Crib
Nursingcrib.com aims to provide quality information and resources to help nursing student achieve it's goal of becoming a full-pledge nurse.

Nursing Ideas
Sharing ideas and passion to improve nursing, health and healthcare.

Nursing in the News
Up to the hour nursing news.

Nursing Times
All the news, practice and opinion from NursingTimes.net.

NursingLink
Where nurses call the shots.

Pediatric Nursing
Pediatric Nursing is a clinically based journal focusing on the needs of professional nurses in pediatric practice, research, administration, and education.

RNchat
RNchat is a twitter community for registered nurses.

Students Nurse
Nursing Students getting help preparing for the NCLEX, network with other student nurses.

The Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies. It has 400,000 members in the UK.



People Who Post About Nursing

Andrew Lopez, RN
Registered Nurse, we review and approve healthcare resources on our site.

Beth Anderson
Nurse, Mom, passionate about technology, wannabe artist, football fan.

Carole Eldridge DNP
College dean who embraces nursing, technology, health, online education, developing people, and empowering everyone.

D. Sankey,RN,MS,BSN
Public awareness, Pt. advocates, supporters of safe nursing practice rules and regs. LPN to RN education, CPR and ACLS.

Dawn McKinney, MS/RN
RN/Nursing educator, consultant. Interests include peds neuro and psych, including genetics. Former Navy LCDR with varied acute care experience.

Dr. Peter Carter
Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing.

Emeliza Palma
I finished my Nursing degree for 4 years and so concern about relevant health issues. Being a God fearing person enables me to overcome life's disaster.

Jamie Davis
RN, paramedic, educator, podcaster, speaker.

Joe Weaver, RN
Registered nurse and author will post medical, mental health and smoking cessation tweet, not intended to diagnose, prevent, or treat illness.

Kathy Cunningham
RN working to provide a better, safer environment for children and those who care for them.

Lisa Morris Bonsall
Clinical editor for Lippincott's NursingCenter.com.

Lorry Schoenly PhD RN
Correctional nurse educator, instructional designer, freelance writer, biblical worldview advocate, hiker, civil war buff, janeite.

Phil Baumann
Founder of RNchat, blogger.

Robert Fraser RN
Nurse, graduate student and other things. Learn more, help others.

Shelley Webb
Registered nurse; geriatric care manager; I help caregivers of aging loved ones and offer social media to small biz. Love nature, dance, wine...and chickens!

Susana Machado RN MS
OB Nurse, educator, photographer, techie, and lover of social media and networking. Graduating in May with MS in nursing education.

Terri Schmitt
Spreading the important word about how Nursing can change Health Care. Faculty, NP, and student myself.

Vernon Dutton, R.N.
Critical care R.N. student of Nursing History. I collect historical nursing related items.



Directories


There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about nursing.

Twellow


Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.



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Search.twitter.com


It lets you track all the tweets and Twitter users focusing on nursing.

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Friendfeed


Friendfeed is an aggregator that collects the updates from social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among a community.


Nursing


  • Description: An on-going public discussion and information-sharing feed concerning the nursing profession, health care, patient advocacy, professional collaboration. This room is open to RNs, physicians, other health care professionals and the general public.

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