Social media and nursing Tweetchat 3: Exploring the positive impact that social media is having on nurses and nursing Over the month of May WeNurses will be exploring social media and nursing.  We want start to understand the relationship that nurses and nursing has with social media and the impact that this is having so throughout May we will be holding tweetchats, sharing blogs, infographics and podcasts and running polls to really scrutinise where social media and nursing is.We want to consider two main areas:The impact that nurses & nursing are having on social media And The impact that social media is having on nurses & nursingIn each of these areas we want to explore  the positive impact but also explore the challenges we have faced a ...

Clinical placement is an essential component of the pre-registration nursing degree and allows the nursing student to translate their learning from theory into practice. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) specify, to gain entry onto the professional register, the nursing student must complete 2,300 clinical hours over a full-time three-year degree programme. The first clinical placement can cause a lot of stress and anxiety for nursing students (Morely et al., 2015) and Alsharani, Cusack & Rasmussen (2018) explain that a negative experience during a nursing students first clinical placement may be a strong indicator that the nursing student will withdraw from the degree programme without completion.There are various reasons nurs ...