Nursing in the Blogosphere

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• Author: Gina Rybolt
• Description: "This is a place for sharing stories. It all started on our personal weblog. As an RN, I started posting stories about what happens at work, and people really enjoyed reading them. A friend suggested that I start an entire blog dedicated to medical stories. I thought it was a great idea."
• Quality: It has been regularly updated since 2002 and has clear contact information.

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Correctional Nurse.Net

• Author: Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN
• Description: "The specialty practice of correctional nursing focuses on care for incarcerated individuals in jails, prisons, and juvenile facilities. These patients are often the most needy and most disadvantaged citizens requiring quality healthcare. This population is growing – 1 in 100 Americans is in some part of the corrections system."
• Quality: Correctional Nurse.Net is dedicated to making visible the challenging profession of nursing in a correctional environmnent. It features description, disclaimer and contact information.

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Digital Doorway

• Author: Keith
• Description: "A digital venue for creative expression, nursing adventures, reflections, thoughtful reverie, thoughtless repose, and other flotsam and jetsam."
• Quality: It has been updated since 2005, has clear contact information and description.

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Dr. Peter Carter's Blog

• Author: Dr. Peter Carter
• Description: "Welcome to my Blog. I hope you find the posts interesting, informative and perhaps even entertaining(!). I'll update this Blog with my responses to topical stories of the day, important news and tales of my travels up and down the UK, meeting our inspirational nursing staff."
• Quality: Dr. Peter Carter is the Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

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Emergiblog

• Author: Kim McAllister
• Description: "The purpose of Emergiblog is to give me a forum to discuss my experiences as a nurse in the emergency department and other topics related to nursing."
• Quality: One of the top rated nursing blogs around the net. Also it is Member of the Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics.

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Impacted Nurse

• Author: Ian Miller
• Description: "Ian Miller hopes to offer up an eclectic mix of reflections, tutorials and articles. They are intended to educate, to stimulate some introspection, to inform and amuse. More importantly, they are offered in the hope that they might be used as a jumping off point to inspire other nurses to think about their own practice, to explore the latest research, best practice guidelines, and to search out and deepen their knowledge, improving the quality of care they deliver."
• Quality: Ian Miller is a registered nurse with nearly 23 years experience working in the Emergency Department of a major teaching hospital in Canberra Australia. It has contact information and description.

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Infusion Nurse Blog

• Author: Cora Vizcarra
• Description: "An informative platform for discussion and sharing ideas related to infusion nursing, vascular access and infusion therapies."
• Quality: Clear description, comment policy and contact information are available. It has been active since 2009.

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Nerdy Nurse

• Author: Brittney
• Description: The rants and raves of a mother wife and nerdy nurse.
• Quality: Detailed description and contact addresses are available.

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Nurse Ratched’s Place

• Author: Mother Jones, RN
• Description: This website is designed to provide personal information, views and commentary about the author’s life experiences.
• Quality: Member of the Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics.

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Nurse Story

• Author: Terri Schmitt
• Description: "This blog is full of thoughts on nursing, nurse practitioners, service to others and life in general. It is a compilation of things that interest me and are important to me. I believe that nursing is the most vital of health care professions and is one of the solutions to the health care crises ACROSS the globe, not just in the U.S."
• Quality: It published a clear description and contact information.

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Nursing Research: Show me the evidence!

Vivian Norman, RN, MSN, CCRN; Theresa Ullrich, RN, MSN, FNP; Soudi Bogert RN, BSN; Danielle Linden, MLIS, AHIP; Stacey Fischer, RN, BSN, OCN; Dana Rutledge, RN, PhD; Julie Smith, MLS, AHIP; Victoria Morrison, RN, MSN, FNP and Kathy Dureault, RN, MSN.

• Description: "The St. Joseph Hospital (Orange, California) Nursing Research Blog will communicate the nursing research activities at SJO to staff. Communications may include, but are not restricted to, announcements of Nursing Grand Rounds, Nursing Journal Clubs, Nursing EBN classes, ongoing nursing research and relevant medical library announcements and news."
• Quality: This blog has been written by professionals since 2006.

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Phil Baumann

• Author: Phil Baumann
• Description: "This blog is about you. I’m a registered nurse with a background in enterprise accounting and treasury operations. I blog primarily about how technologies influence us, with an emphasis on health care applications of social software."
• Quality: Member of the Better Health network of bloggers.

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Those Emergency Blues

• Author: TorontoEmergencyRN
• Description: "Asystole is just a very slow bradycardia"
• Quality: Clear disclaimer and contact information.

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