Category Archives: Technology
Online Health Information: Help or Hindrance?
“I Googled it”…these words strike fear into healthcare professionals’ hearts. I’ve heard it most often called Googlechondria, a term that has made it to the Urban Dictionary (so it must be legitimate, right?). It refers to a situation in which … Continue reading
Nursing Online: To Blog or Not To Blog?
Nurses who spend time on the Internet generally sooner rather than later happen across “the nursing blogosphere,” the nickname those of us in the sphere ascribe to that group of loosely networked and informally associated blogs written by nurses. There … Continue reading
Tech Tools for Nurses: Become a Gmail Ninja
The wisdom of using Gmail vs. other e-mail services can be and has been debated since the first Gmail beta came out years ago, so I will skip all that and make an executive decision to tell you that I … Continue reading
Tools for Nurses: Organizing Electronic Reading Material
Electronically active nurses and nursing students (presumably, readers of this blog, or they wouldn’t be reading this post) need a way to organize the large amount of online material available for education—or entertainment, for that matter. You may view, on … Continue reading
Tweeting on the Clock
A nursing student/CNA e-mailed me recently because of the column “Patient Privacy and Company Policy in Online Life” I wrote for AJN, which I quote not to plug my own column but to provide some reason why she would ask … Continue reading
Air in Fluid Bags
Air in liter fluid bags may not be the first thing that springs to mind as a practice issue, but it bothers me, and I can’t find any research on it. Let me explain the problem and why I wish … Continue reading
HIPAA, HITECH, and You
Unless you were just beamed in from another planet, you should know HIPAA forward, backward, and sideways by now if you work in healthcare or, probably, even receive healthcare. But HIPAA has a cohort that is just now poking its … Continue reading
Should You Carry Your Smartphone at Work?
When I first started clinicals, which really wasn’t that long ago, it was forbidden to have a cell phone with you because they were all flip phones. The only reason you would have a flip phone was to talk or … Continue reading
Top 25 Facebook Apps for Healthcare Professionals
Technology is creating bridges and opportunities to connect all the time. Even nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals are using technology — and even social media — to connect to others. There are a lot of opportunities online to get … Continue reading
Top 25 Health and Medical Search Engines
This list of top 25 health and medical search engines is perfect for nurses, doctors and other health professionals. Most also are helpful to the consumer, since these sites offer credible resources, and they may include communities, forums and directories. … Continue reading
