Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈

Pre-registration Student Nurse @NUchildnursing. RCN Student Ambassador @theRCN. North Eastern cheedleader. Dog Mam. (re)tweets/like are my own (she/her)

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

Sobbed my way through a second day. Juicey. 👍

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

Yes, therapy helps heal trauma. Learning about the mind-body connection is also a great resource. What is often overlooked is the power of validation. The words that tell someone we don’t think they’re crazy, we think they’re hurting. This has immediate and lasting impact.

[Grace Petrie @gracepetrie]

It’s funny, I remember when I was a kid and my mum explained periods to me and I was like - sorry, what the fuck?? This sounds appalling??? And now I’ve been menstruating for nearly 20 years I have to say - I was spot on

[Gearóid Brennan PhD RN @gearoidbrennan]

Reasons why this is NOT good
1️⃣ We have a RETENTION problem not recruitment
2️⃣ without experienced RNs who is going to educate in PLEs
3️⃣ we have a shortage of nurse academics. So again, who is going to educate them?
4️⃣ plug the multiple holes in bucket BEFORE adding more water

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

I don't make a ton of mistakes at work but when I do I make them in front of the same person every single time who must think I am the dumbest person ever to live

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

@MRadford_HEECN 🤞🤞 hoping the work behind this follows through for all. Learning to be a nurse is a privilege and I'd love to see the rise is interest be matched by a ready workforce. Time will tell

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

Let's not rest on numbers alone - more students without proper support in training has a risk of affecting quality of learning. Can't just bring more people in the room without looking at what resources are currently available to train them.

[Prof Mark Radford CBE PhD RN @MRadford_HEECN]

Today @ucas_corporate have released their end of cycle data. @CNOEngland and I are thrilled to see we have exceeded 30,000 acceptances for nursing & midwifery courses at English universities for the very first time this year. This works out as a 34% increase since 2018.  (1/5)

[Kate is grumpy @KidDocKate]

I'm thinking we pediatricians need to write a book called "weird, creepy shit newborns do that are totally normal and why".

[Vicky Thomas @LittleDoctorVic]

For my colleagues, for our patients, for their families, with love .

From #TheseAreTheHands inspired by @MichaelRosenYes, curated by @emergencypoet and @Bigger_Pict and printed by @fairacrepress

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

Play Specialists/Nursery Nurses are the unsung heroes of children's care in hospital. They honestly cannot be praised enough for the work they do 👇👇

[Starlight @starlight_uk]

Every day, children across the UK are admitted to hospital. The ability to play and laugh is essential for these children and their families.

But, more than half of all UK hospitals don't have the budget to make play happen, and a third don't have dedicated play professionals.

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

@Kiml71 @WeStudentNurse @StNurseProject @Gpnsnn @RCNStudents Basics of simply creating a culture of inclusion go so far in making for a good placement. Great things you get to see and do are fab of course, but feeling welcome at work everyday is far more conducive to good learning. Too easy to be seen as "a student" rather than a human

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

I have a vivid memory of opening up to a uni doctor at 22 about mental health issues I barely understood, and his reaction was to ask me if I'd "talked to Mam recently". I have never felt so infantalised. It was a few years, and acute MH crisis later, before I tried a GP again.

[Alyx Gorman @AlyxG]

FOMO is dead, long live FOPA (fear of participating awkwardly)

[Erica Isherwood (she/her) 💙 @ericasmart]

Can a clinical skills facilitator improve staff retention?
Yes they can!!

Excellent article @hollystephanie @rcni 🌟

3 factors for staff retention
1️⃣Clinical skills
2️⃣Job satisfaction
3️⃣Well-being at work

Clinical Educators can provide practical and emotional support ❤️

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

The Golem effect is where our behaviour leads to poorer student performance.

It's where we place lower expectations on our students, and consequently their performance is worse.

If you've ever had a supervisor who doesn't believe in you, you'll know this effect well.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

The sheer contempt and callousness contained in the word "only". As if only perfectly healthy children count.

[Jen Hall 🏳️‍🌈 @JenHall14]

The tweet I didn't know I needed!!!!

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Women who stand up for themselves get penalized.

51 studies: a woman who negotiates for herself fears—and faces—backlash as selfish & aggressive.

If she negotiates for others, suddenly she seems caring.

I want to live in a world that celebrates women advocating for themselves.