Focus on Not Focusing
Ten years is a long time in blog years.
I have witnessed the community evolve:
-writing anonymously to
-writing semi-anonymously to
-”being out” (if I am allowed to borrow the phrase) as an individual to
-writing (or not writing) due to corporate clamp down to
-changing writing to only blogging professional topical content to
-blogging with corporate semi-acceptance to
-blogging being accepted and an expected resume replacement to
-what?
This doesn’t include the changes brought about by social media and the 140 character, SnapChat world.
Today, after a good amount...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - January 6, 2014 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Long Form Post Professionalism Source Type: blogs
The Year of Exploration
As 2014 is looming on my door step, I am once again reflecting on the past, and thinking about the future. The fact that my blog is now 10 years and 2 months old has enhanced my pondering the past. What have I done? What did I accomplish? But most importantly, what did I give back?
As a professional, I receive and read a lot of information from different organizations. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is one that is important to me and receives most of my reading attention. Each new organization president introduces a theme or mantra for the year. This is supposed to le...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - January 3, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: crzegrl.net Source Type: blogs
The Year of Exploration
As 2014 is looming on my door step, I am once again reflecting on the past, and thinking about the future. The fact that my blog is now 10 years and 2 months old has enhanced my pondering the past. What have I done? What did I accomplish? But most importantly, what did I give back?
As a professional, I receive and read a lot of information from different organizations. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is one that is important to me and receives most of my reading attention. Each new organization president introduces a theme or mantra for the year. This is supposed to le...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - January 3, 2014 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Long Form Post Source Type: blogs
The Day the World Stood Still
I have no idea why I titled this post as such. Maybe it is because I finally feel ready to write again. So much time has passed that it seems foreign to me. Like an old runner who gave it up because life became too much then one day decided to strap on the old shoes to see if the love was still there.
So, here I sit, with my foot in a walking cast. The laundry is done, the bills are paid, the dogs are fed. The online accounts are all de-cluttered and the logins are all updated. All that is left to do is write.
As I look back at this blog my mind wanders through a decade o...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - December 28, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: crzegrl.net Source Type: blogs
The Day the World Stood Still
I have no idea why I titled this post as such. Maybe it is because I finally feel ready to write again. So much time has passed that it seems foreign to me. Like an old runner who gave it up because life became too much then one day decided to strap on the old shoes to see if the love was still there.
So, here I sit, with my foot in a walking cast. The laundry is done, the bills are paid, the dogs are fed. The online accounts are all de-cluttered and the logins are all updated. All that is left to do is write.
As I look back at this blog my mind wanders through a decade o...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - December 28, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: My Life Source Type: blogs
Tell Me About Flight Nursing
I was asked to assist a nursing student with a project in which he needed to explore a specific type of nursing of his choice. I was honored and excited that he chose flight nursing. Below is my answer to him and thought it would be a good overview for anyone thinking about becoming a flight nurse as well.
My official name/title is:
Emily J. Bennett, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CFRN, CEN, CCRN, NREMT-P
(Nursing and its continued plague of credentials for “credibility” makes me insane, but it is the game we play)
I am educated as an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, I have nursing certifications in flight, emergency an...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 6, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Archived Flight Medicine flight nurse HEMS Source Type: blogs
Tell Me About Flight Nursing
I was asked to assist a nursing student with a project in which he needed to explore a specific type of nursing of his choice. I was honored and excited that he chose flight nursing. Below is my answer to him and thought it would be a good overview for anyone thinking about becoming a flight nurse as well.
My official name/title is:
Emily J. Bennett, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CFRN, CEN, CCRN, NREMT-P
(Nursing and its continued plague of credentials for “credibility” makes me insane, but it is the game we play)
I am educated as an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, I have nursing certifications in flight, emergency an...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 6, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Flight Nurse Long Form Post Flight Medicine HEMS Source Type: blogs
Tell Me About Flight Nursing
I was asked to assist a nursing student with a project in which he needed to explore a specific type of nursing of his choice. I was honored and excited that he chose flight nursing. Below is my answer to him and thought it would be a good overview for anyone thinking about becoming a flight nurse as well.
My official name/title is:
Emily J. Bennett, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CFRN, CEN, CCRN, NREMT-P
(Nursing and its continued plague of credentials for “credibility” makes me insane, but it is the game we play)
I am educated as an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, I have nursing certifications in flight, emergency ...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 6, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Flight Nurse Long Form Post Flight Medicine HEMS Source Type: blogs
The 10 Responsibilities of the Long Form Blogger
During my time with Mike and Sean, two icons in the medical and nursing blogospheres, I began thinking about why being a long form blogger is so difficult to maintain overtime and why it is running the risk of becoming obsolete. The three of us have all struggled with social media burnout and have scaled back, or in my case, have disappeared from social media all together. We even tossed around the following question:
Is long the long form blog dying?
Yes, dear reader, I believe it is. But why? Where did it go? Where is the love?
1. Writing is difficult: Blog posts of substance req...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 3, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Archived LongFormPost SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
The 10 Responsibilities of the Long Form Blogger
During my time with Mike and Sean, two icons in the medical and nursing blogospheres, I began thinking about why being a long form blogger is so difficult to maintain overtime and why it is running the risk of becoming obsolete. The three of us have all struggled with social media burnout and have scaled back, or in my case, have disappeared from social media all together. We even tossed around the following question:
Is long the long form blog dying?
Yes, dear reader, I believe it is. But why? Where did it go? Where is the love?
1. Writing is difficult: Blog posts of substance require a lot of thought, some ...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 3, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Long Form Post Social Media LongFormPost SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
The 10 Responsibilites of the Long Form Blogger
During my time with Mike and Sean, two icons in the medical and nursing blogospheres, I began thinking about why being a long form blogger is so difficult to maintain overtime and why it is running the risk of becoming obsolete. The three of us have all struggled with social media burnout and have scaled back, or in my case, have disappeared from social media all together. We even tossed around the following question:
Is long the long form blog dying?
Yes, dear reader, I believe it is. But why? Where did it go? Where is the love?
1. Writing is difficult: Blog posts of substance require a lot of thought, some ...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 3, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Long Form Post Social Media LongFormPost SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
No Shit, There I was
L-R Sean (@iamunafraid), Emily (@crzegrl15) & Mike (@drmikesevilla)
When I was in the Army, the best stories began with:
“No shit, there I was . . .”
When that slid off of a soldier’s tongue, you knew you were in for a whopper. The story, if told by a FNG (f’ing new guy), was usually one of boasting and exaggeration, which no one was expected to believe. We would listen anyways out of simulated respect and only groan when it was the 5th time or the 100th time we heard the same old thing. If, however, an old crusty sergeant uttered the same statement—the type personified in old John ...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 1, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily Tags: Archived FOAMed LongFormPost SocialMedia Source Type: blogs
