Well, it is that time of the year again.
Impactednurse.com is up for renewal in a few weeks.
I make absolutely no money from this site (notice the lack of annoying advertising banners?) so it’s time to dive down the back of the chairs in the waiting room to check for spare change.
Make no mistake though, I have absolutely no problems with coming up with the dosh to keep the site going.
After all, it has become not only a labour of love for me……but it is my own personal portal to interact and cross pollinate with some of the most incredible nurses and doctors that exist in the known universe (apart from the ones I work with that is).
And that my friends, is value you cannot buy.
Each year just before I part with my hard earned dosh, it has become a sort of ritual for me to attempt to get a little fix of comment crack to help numb the pain.
I could tell you I just like to get some idea of who is actually paying a visit, which I do, but truth is there is more than a little ego stroking involved here as well.
So please take a moment to drop a hit of high grade comment crack in the box below.
Simply leave your first name, what you do , and where you work.
That’s all I need.
If you are reading this in an email, please take a sec to click through to the site , and leave your mark.
And if you happen to be a regular reader, mention that too….’cause I really appreciate you taking time to read my stuff!
Ian.
Hi Ian,
I’ve been reading this site before I had even APPLIED for uni in 2008, if you can believe it. Now I’m a GRN working in haemodialysis in north QLD.
Hi Ian,
Love your work!
I work in Drug and ETOH/Mental Health Duel Diagnosis as a Clinical Manager.
But I have worked general surg and ED as well in a past life.
Over in NZ as a change of scenery from Perth where I normally live and work
Smiles
Rae Webb
Hi Ian,
Love your page and look forward to all the emails. Great info, great insights, great sense of humour. Keep it coming!
Sarah/Nursing Clinical Practice, Policy and Research
Perth
I’ve been following your blog for a couple of years now, love it!
xx
Camilla
nurse at the ED, Umeå University Hospital, Sweden
Hi Ian,
Have followed your site since I started as an END in 2008, continued on with studies and now doing my TPPP and on my 2nd rotation in TQEH ED (SA) at the age of 50.
Thank-you so much for sharing your site and knowledge with like minded colleagues – like the down to earth content and look forward to it’s continuation.
Cheers
OB nurse from Albany,NY here. Love your blog, Ian and have been reading for the past 4 years or so.
Sarah
Great site, I’m upstairs on L5 Paeds.
Keep rockin’!
Hi Ian, Sooz here – rural RN in country NSW, wow what an eye opener! Love it though, currently doing my midwifery training so by Feb will be RN/RM.
I did a brief stint in your ED back in July 2010 as a student, loved every minute of it, you guys are fantastic. Been reading this blog since about then too…….
I will graduate in December with my bachelor’s degree at age 46. Value your blog immensely for the insight into what it will really be like. My favorite posts are the ones I know you really stick your neck out for that involve the political aspects of nursing. They don’t teach that stuff in school.
Soon (but not soon enough) to be newbie RN in rural Virginia, USA
Paeds nurse in Melbourne- reading your blog for about 3 years now. Love your musings, educational tidbits and bravery. Thanks Ian.
Thanks Ian,
Have been reading,laughing and crying alongside for many years. After 28 yrs at various forms of WVH, RCH and TCH mostly in Paeds- have spent the last 4 years in the relatively sane world of the community. Kee up the good fight – you make a real difference to many.
work in a and e telford shropshire england
only recently come accross your blog found your booklets on a and e nursing useful for students
better than offical journals
Ian,
Nurse, Gold Coast ED, Love your work, And use some of it to. Keep it going.
Ian – RN, Educator, former university academic, now training ENs for aged and community care. I use your links as teaching tools on the facebook page for my students… I was an avid reader to start and contributor then I had to apply to AHPRA for a new EN course so most of my spare time is GONE! Will return to the joys of IMPACTed nurse regularly once time permits. Great work… highly recommended.
Love your work. I am an RN in the West Kimberley, the Kimberley mind not that B place in the Northern Pilbara!
Ian – your blogs are great and I love reading them. Am a freshly hatched EEN working in the acute environment at a private hospital in Melbourne. Have learnt heaps from you and hope you can continue your inspiring writing.
Humour, intelligence, vital information and inspiration are some of the reasons I recommend your page to others. In 3 months I’ll be an RN – I’m a bit reserved on the excitement side of things but comments from you and others are steering me toward taking the next step and apply for a grad year. Keep the inspiration coming Ian, if I’m offered a position I might just take it. BTW – how are those Thunderbox papers going?
Tegan, currently stay at home mum-ing but until recently I was a public health researcher at UQ.
Love the blog!
I work in a little town called Tatura in country Victoria, home is now a sheep and cropping farm a couple of Towns away. The same time in commute I used to have in the city but the scenery and drive is far nicer these days. Worked in many specialties, love the articles find them a great read and relevant. Wouldn’t miss a post. Keep up the great work, it’s inspiring. Hanna
Sharon working as a RN in the Wimmera. Love reading your posts! Been reading your blog since uni, and I have learnt so much from your handy hints and videos. Please keep going! Xx
would not miss a single post
Paediatric Nurse and Child and Family Health Nurse, I love your blog keep up the good work. I look forward to every post. I love the way you write, easy to read and always interesting. Thanks heaps Ian.
I am a mature (very) age Nursing student due to complete my degree this year.
Many thanks for your site …. among many things it’s amusing, informative, educational, inspiring and reassuring.
Hi Ian, I am an EEN from Far North Queensland working in Aged Care and the public hospital. Look forward to reading your emails and pass them on to collegues or print and display at work. Please keep up the Blog. Love your sense of humour and use of words. My vocabulary has broadened since reading your blogs. Well done! Rhonda
Kim, I’m an RN2 in PACU here in Canberra. Read every post.
Thanks for all your hard work~
Hi Ian;
I am a long time reader, very infrequent commenter. I really get a lot out of your work here! I am a nurse, 26 years in the trenches of community mental health in a variety of settings, currently geriatric mental health here in Canada. Interesting times indeed, all over the world for health care. Gotta laugh or you cry, but I still love the work, and think being a nurse is one of the best jobs there is. Thanks for all you do. I forward your stuff to my colleagues all the time…
Hello, I’m Kate, a nursing assistant at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC, USA. I read your blog regularly by email and love some of the deeper issues you get into. An aspiring Physician’s Assistant, your blog not only discusses issues I witness everyday, but also issues that I will encounter in more depth in my career as a PA. Thanks for writing!
Please please keep up the impacted nurse blog. I have worked in a Rural Hospital in SA for 28 years love your blog Only found it recently you are definitely on my wave lenghth have never laughed so much at what is so true. I agree and support you in the issues that challenge us in nursing today especially the bullyiing, valuing all members of the Heath care team All the best with your new role but once again Please Please keep up your great blog
Hi Ian, I do peds ED in Atlanta and I read every post. I love it!
Heya! Love your regular ‘emails’ from the blog. Am a registered Nurse, Qld, surgical.
I’m passionate about what we do, and reading your blog reminds me that I’m not alone, there is plenty of joy for our job out there. It makes me think about the issues that we all face, and gives me a few interesting points to consider and debate with my colleagues. Keep it goin! Brilliant meeting place. I was directed to your site by a fellow ‘sister’ through her facebook ‘like’.
uni educator, ICU nurse, and massage therapist in Adelaide
love your wisdoms,sneak peaks into your brain and those of others around the world
if you add a paypal donate button, I would love to send a few dollars to help maintain the site as it is one I always enjoy
Hi Ian,
Work upstairs in EDSU, you have been a saviour through my student and times and love reading and learning every post, huge thanks
Hi Ian,
I’m a Health Services Researcher from Brisbane. Been reading your site about 18 months. It’s easy to get discouraged by the many many bad (truly horrendous), wasteful, apathetic, terrifying things about healthcare. So I love reading your blog (and a few others like it) to remind myself that there are passionate, skilled, caring healthcare workers out there who really do give a rats, and there are people actively trying to improve the system. It also helps me poke my head outside my ivory tower to see what’s happening, and what the genuine issues are, in the real world.
That’s a perdy picture you painted, maybe you should be an artist instead of a nurse? ;-p
-M.
Ian.
Thank you so much for an extraordinary blog. I laugh a lot (and sometimes cry) and am constantly impressed with your insights and take on the world of nursing and politics. I regularly pass on your stuff to friends and colleagues and it resonates with all of us. Please keep up this important work – you help make the difficult times worthwhile.
Penny – an ‘elderly’ nurse educator and researcher who works in an organisation for people with severe disabilities (intellectual and physical) and complex health needs.
Hey,
I am an A&E specialist, who was working in major metro ED’s but am now rural/remote and much prefer it. Been reading for a couple of years and love how you mix education with politics and personal things without it becoming a quagmire.
Really enjoy reading ImpactED nurse. And certainly is an unofficial avenue when info is needed!
Cheers!
Hey Ian, upstairs in Neuro (stroke unit) 7A. Love your work!
Hi Ian
Love reading everything on your blog: you are a natural writer! The world’s a better place with you around – keep it going…
Annie – EEN, Gold Coast, Australia
Hi Ian
I work as a staff development nurse on the liver transplant ward in Perth Western Australia.
Impacted Nurse is in my top 5 websites to visit.
Thanks!
Karen
Teacher of under-graduate nursing students at a large Melbourne university, and agency nurse. Doing a Masters degree at present. Love your work and I’m a regular reader. Please keep it up.
Hi Ian, truly love reading anything you write about. Also appreciate the nursing knowledge you share so well.
I am a Div 1 working in Emergency and love ImpactedNurse!
Tina
Hi there, newly introduced immediate addict to impacted nursing!
I share your stuff to anyone who seems moderately interested and flagrantly link my students and new grads in.
I think it’s love, maybe just an addiction?
Thank you for writing about stuff I want to know or already believe in and for writing in the language I speak!
Kassie
CNS emergency
Maja!
Part Time Clinical Nurse Educator/CNS at North Shore Private Hospital (and family friend).
Keep up the good work! I can tell you loads of people around Royal North Shore and North Shore Private love it!
X
Hey Maja,
Cannot tell you how amazing it has been watching you flourish from a ‘goofy cute kid’ to a nursing leader.
I have no doubt you have made plenty of people proud of you.
4 stars.
Jackie, RN, Whangarei, New Zealand.
Love it. Keep it up….wish I could count reading this blog as professional development time
Dear Ian,
You inspire me in so many ways! This site is simply wonderful.
Your descriptions are so exquisitely true to my own nursing experience. Your words and pictures and other creations have left me laughing, crying, uplifted, inspired and amazed at your ability to share the universal nursing experience. I often think of this site when I am at work, especially if I am having trouble with some of the trivial but trying nursing experiences – like scrub ties that won’t undo properly (I recall your how-to piece on fastening scrub trousers – very funny and useful!).
Thank you for providing this amazing way of connecting us all. _ Laura (ICU RN) – NC, US
Nathan, Intensive Care nurse, Madison, WI, USA. Absolutely love this site. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Love, Love, Love your site! I always find great stuff here. Some things to share with my colleagues and students, (I teach in a 2 year ADN program in Kentucky), and lots of things to think about. Thank you for taking the time to keep us all connected. Tina
Thank you for all your hard work keeping this site going!
I work as an RN in the ER in Ayer, MA
Linden. Emergency Dept Tasmania. Love, love, love it.
Hey Linden,
I will be coming down to Hobart for the CENA conference at the end of the year. Maybe I will see you there.
Then we are hiring a campervan for a 10 day road trip.
Enjoy the CENA conference!
I think you’ll enjoy the rest of the state so much better though
. 10 days is nowhere near enough time to see everything tho. Anywhere specific you were wanting to visit. Tasmanians love to show their state off (I can boast, I live there!).
Things round Hobart: Mt Wellington, Salamanca Market, Hobart Waterfront, Port Arthur (the drive down is rather scenic), Sorrell Fruit Farm, Huonville (very pretty, lots of orchards) Mt Field National Park. There’s heaps to do, and even more stuff around the state.
Have a great holiday!
Hi Ian
I am a Student Operating Department Practitioner (Fingers crossed with results a registered ODP in sept)
Im from Southport in England
Keep up the good work!
Hey Ian,
Your blog ROCKS!!! Love it, please keep going!
xxxx