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.
Hello my name is Nuno and im a Portuguese Nurse currently working in Spain.
Im a recent follower but i must say i’am impressed by the quality of the blog.
Best regards
Ian
This is the the only blog dedicated to emergency nursing and is the best nursing blog out there on the web. It has provide’s me with the inspiration, dedication and commitment both in my work and online.
I look to you as a mentor, for support, guidance and a laugh.
Impactednurse sits on the top shelf of my blog roll, and look forward to it staying there.
Kane
Rob Fraser – RN who misses patients. Focused on bringing the healthcare world online, when it has to be. The rest should be saved for real life.
Wanted to say we all know you are the BEST Nursing Blog out there, and probably in the top three for all Healthcare Professionals. Your constant stream of content is the highest quality and I love watching how you are using this blog for share you ideas and teach others and raise the bar in our profession.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!
Rob
Hi! I am a semi-retired RN in Florida. I enjoy the laughs and the viewpoint–kind of my “ER-fix!”
Keep them coming!
I LOVE your blog and have been hooked for several months. Have recommended it to several new grads and all of my fellow nursing friends. I am currently doing home health skilled cases– out of the SICU when I burned out several years ago and then couldn’t get back in after the economy nosedived. My CCRN has lapsed, but I keep up and use a lot of my knowledge base on complex cases and for my consulting business. I especially like your positive attitude in the face of much adversity and for you tenacious support of your colleagues.
Northern California
I am a CNS working mostly in academia now, but have had years of ED experience. I admire your eloquent writing, and how we mostly have the same issues, no matter where in the world we are! Shortage of supplies, no shortage of patient’s or patience! You hold the profession in high esteem, while not minding taking a poke or two at ourselves. I am honored to pass along your site to my colleagues and students. I am glad to see you continue!
Pediatrician from Los Angeles.
I enjoy the blog and pass on articles of interest to my wife who’s a nurse and some of the nurses I work with.
Thanks for all your real world insight into the nursing life, thanks for the articles that remind us that although we have phenomenal responsibility we can also enjoy a warped giggle about our profession. Thanks for providing a place where we can bring ideas, issues out into the open and get feedback from our peers without prejudice…
I’ve been reading the pearls of wisdom on this site now for a few years and will look forward to hopefully many more in the future!
Thanks Ian,
xx
Apart from being extremely informative from your diverse and sometimes warped perspective, this site has awesome procrastination value. Thanks for keeping it real. (student nurse)
Hi Ian, I follow your blog regularly and work as an RN in Maternity in Vancouver, Canada. Thanks for the quality and entertaining posts!
I’m an ED RN.
I’ve only recently found the blog, but I follow you regularly now. The content is interesting and informative.
Hey Ian, regular reader here-Michelle (RN) from ED in Sydney. Always great to drop by and see if anything is new. I refer my colleagues to your blog too if they are unsure about anything. Recently someone was asking about MAPs-I thought immediately of your little bit about MAPs and pulled up the website. She now understands a lot better! Thanks for the good work, Ian, keep it up!
I’m Christine, a nursing student from Canada, currently working in Bella Coola, British Columbia.
I’m a regular reader of your blog, you have a spot in my folder of bookmarked links to the nursing/medical blogs I read. I also send links to your blogs to my friends and family who are nurses when I find something especially relevant to what they’re doing. Thanks for making such a great site!
Mary. Ex-RN but now work for a nursing organisation in communications, which is how I found your blog only a few months ago. It’s the smartest and reallest nursing site on the web.
I am a 3rd year Registered Nurse working in cardiology at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. Thanks for the blog, it is brilliant!!
Paramedic from SA, have been reading since I was a student at uni many years ago.
Your blog is part of my recommended reading list for anyone asking where I get all these articles, ideas and quotes from!
Software Engineer
(My mother was a nurse)
RSS feed reader
I read your blog (via email) regularly and forward it on on occasion. I work in a 365 bed pediatric hospital in MO, doing disaster preparedness for the hospital. I really enjoy the insights, humor and occasional forays into the absurd!
My name is Michelle and I am a Nurse Informaticist.
I do read your e-mails when I get them.
I’m a student nurse and found your blog not long ago. I always enjoy reading it and am glad you’re going to continue.
Hi Ian,
Im an ED RN in Albury. I want to thank you for your blogs – the variety, information, humour and straight forward advice is appreciated and respected. Thankyou.
Currently on maternity leave but usually an inmate of canberra hospital ED. The site has actually kept me feeling like I am at least still a little in touch with the working world, though I’m sure the return to work will still be a rude shock and there may be some scared patients wondering who this nurse is that cant check a BP
I am currently working in Adelaide in paediatrics. Love your work, thank you for your generosity and commitment to the nursing profession.
Hi Ian, I’m a palliative care nurse in Hobart, Tasmania and I’ve only recently discovered your blog/site.
I really appreciated your comments on Advanced Care Directives.
Your ability to be so erudite on a daily basis ( and so early in the morning!) is inspiring, I look forward to each post.
Thankyou.
I’m Lucy, I just graduated from nursing in Brisbane, in fact my registration came through yesterday! I am currently home in Rural Qld, hoping to get a graduate position in Melbourne or Darwin next year. Your blog is so interesting, thank you, I hope that I can keep up to date with the latest knowledge now that I am an RN!
Hi Ian,
I have been reading for a few years now, and although my role has varied dramatically recently I still do the occasional ED shift. I love reading your tid bits, and find most of what you put up on the net very useful, inspiring and alot of the time it is the perfect way to start my day on a good note. So THANK YOU!!! Kelly
Hi Ian, I quote you often, the one about “they’re waiting for you.” And so they are. Love your blog and thanks so much for keeping it going. Am a float in med-surg, progressive, and mother-baby in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Have been a nurse for 39 years but took 15 off to raise a daughter. It’s a great job and I love it, even when an old woman tells me she’s going to smash my f***ing head (and she’s bigger than I). Whatever. They all need us and it helps to have a cheerleader coming up on the email. Carry on! We’re waiting for you. . . .
Hi Ian,
Euan here.
I’m an Emergency Nurse Practitioner from Dundee in Scotland. Been nursing for 30 years.
Have been following you for a while and sent a text to you at New Year when you ill advisedly gave out your mobile number. Out of curiosity did you keep the number or change it?
Interesting hearing from the other side of the world and realising that we’re not too different in what we do.
Greetings from
Philadelphia Pa, USA.
I am registered nurse In a surgical/trauma ICU. I do believe I started getting the email while looking around to find out how others handled strikes, unfair working conditions etc. we are union nurses here at Temple Hospital, an inner city location, with a base clientele of uninsured ,unemployed, men women and children. We fill a terrible need with some of the best medical specialists around. However, we can always do better. Going out on strike a few years ago left many of us in that horrible place…what’s best for my family vs what’s best for those who have so little. I’ve been an RN for 33 plus years, mostly pediatrics, until I made the switch to adult ICU 4 years ago…..no I didn’t hit my head really hard , I have to think I evolved to this place. I started as an infant ICU nurse and now have finally got here. I enjoy reading your insights. Primarily the input from a different nation of nurses, with political issues, and of course there’s always the emergency room vs ICU “opinion”. I hope you keep on .
Hi Ian – I’m an endo/rheum CNS on a mixed medical specialty unit in a Melbourne tertiary hospital. I found your site several years ago, through a link on allnurses.com, started visiting regularly a couple of years ago, and subscribed a few months ago, an experience enhanced by following you on Twitter.
I really enjoy your voice, perspective, and advocacy – for the profession, for education, for our patients, for ED, and for ongoing pursuit of better practice. I particularly like the blend of realism, pragmatism and relatability with which you tackle each post, and even if I hadn’t been a participant (thank you!) I thought your idea of creating a virtual book of nurses for International Nurses Day was inspired. Thank you for making the blogosphere, and nursing, better places
Your writing is insightful, funny, and helps me remember that we do important work. Work that only other nurses really understand. Reading your blog helps me keep it all in perspective, and gets me ready to go back in for more. (with a better attitude)
I often share your posts with coworkers. Although we don’t work in the ER, we have that similar dark, inappropriate humor one needs to make it through a shift when a pt tries to assault you or hang himself with bed sheets.
Keep writing. You are reaching more nurses than you know. And you are MOST appreciated.
Hi Ian,
Thank you for your wonderful blog which connects all nurses.
Thank you for your sharing and allowing us to share as well.
Thank you for voicing our own thoughts at times.
Thank you for reaching to the very soul of us , Nurses.
Thank you for your time & dedication !
Mioara ( RN – Perth, WA)
Angie,
RN in ED
northern nsw
thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge / experiences / opinions with all of us out here.
your site is often the little nudge i need to remind me to push myself to better practice.
and thank you also for opening a whole world of information via twitter, i dont post much but i read heaps. (and occasionally i even look a bit clever because of it!)
thanks again and here’s to another year of excellent blogging
This is a great site, not only do I have the privilege of working with such an amzing person, nurse and mentor.
I have learnt so much from working with you, and love hearing your story and experiences you have had in ED.
I also get to read and see great articles on the site .
This site has it all teaching, the funiest sides of nursing, the stories of why we are nurses, it tells the truth about the health systems…
I love it…
It would be very sad if you were not able to do this anymore. I am happy to donate money to such a great resource to all of us
Hi, I’m a nurse/midwife from rural WA Goldfields. Love the site, regular reader and big fan. Keep up the good work!!
This is my first year of ‘following’ impacted nurse! I have loved the stories, information and humor that you have shared. Realizing that things that happen in my ED happen all around Australia and indeed the world has been fabulous. Nurses (particularily ED ones) have a black sense of humor and you cater to this well!! Keep it up Ian, I look forward to 2012/13 with bated breath!
Love your” take” on nursing , always thought provoking and insightful ., esp for the younger nurses . I share this site with my co workers. It is nice to get a laugh here and there and really at the end of the day All Emergency Depts seem to be the same !
I am willing to donate to the “Ian fund” if you so wish
Our uni,s and govenrments need more people like you Ian.
Keep up the great work
Chris
Not only am I a regular visitor to your site, but I also share postings from impactednurse.com with my hospice coworkers and members of our nursing support groups at various hospitals. The question that begs to be asked is “Who takes care of the Caregiver”. And my answer is my Hospice does by providing Breakfast to the hospital night shift before they go home, lunch to the day shift, and Midnight Brownie Runs to night shifts at nursing homes. At each event we provide handouts of interest to nurses and extend emotional support as many of us a nurses ourselves. (I’m a social worker) . On day an RN came in and as I was reciting the menu to her she said, Hell with the food, I live for the handouts (often from impactednurse.com). This week’s hand outs will be #2 of the Thurderbox Papers. Thank you Ian Miller for your sense of humor. Joyce Lewis, LCSW
I’m Jo, I’ve just started in ICU in Perth. I’ve been reading your blog since I was in uni and needed a pick me up. Love your “zen” approach to nursing. The example of nurses like you has helped me see that I alone determine the kind of nurse that I am, not my environment, coworkers or superiors. Cheers, Ian, and best of luck for the coming year.