Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE

RN, nurse educator, single mom, PhD in Nursing Education finished 12/22!
President of the Wisconsin Nurses Association 2024-2025
Views are my own.

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Done! ✅💙💛

I challenge my UWEC colleagues - former and current faculty, staff, students, emeriti - to donate to the UWEC College of Nursing Advancement Fund on this Giving Day!

#GiveUWEC!
#NursingEducation

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[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Thrilled to meet @DrVincentRamos @UWEauClaire - fantastic speaker and nurse leader!!
#Nursing
#HealthPolicy
#EndingUnequalTreatment

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Love the NLN Education Summit on competency-based education. Dr. Ernie Grant received a Presidents Award. Dr. Beverly Malone at the PCEO Summit Address - always enjoy hearing her - never dull & always with humor! Such an Inspirational nurse Leader!
#NLNSummit24
#NurseEducator

[Dennis @GrandpaDennisP]

I picked 5 people that I know are republicans, and I asked each one separately what trumps platform is. NOT ONE of them knew. I asked if they knew what project 2025 was. Only one had an idea, and he said it was to help America. When I asked how, he didn’t know. I asked ALL of them if they thought they should know what their party offered before they voted. ALL OF THEM SAID NO.
The ignorance of so many republicans is what’s going to make it so hard to fight for Democracy. They have NO CLUE what they’re voting for. I don’t mean to disgrace these people, but it looks like we have an entire political party of stupid people that just vote because they’re told to, but have no idea why.

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

#ANAHillDay
@wisconsinnurses
@ANANursingWorld
@RNAction

Hot day on the Hill today - but great meetings with the WI Senate and House staffers!

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Let's make sure every voter can cast their ballot in the upcoming election!
I just ordered a free, nonpartisan voter badge from @vot_er_org so I can offer students and patients the opportunity to register to vote or view their ballot. Get yours ⤵️ https://t.co/X6rshQR67w

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Excited to attend the @MidwestNursing Annual Research Conference #MNRS2024
#NursingEducation
@UWEauClaire

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

More pics #WINDAC2024
@wisconsinnurses
@sensmithwi
@UWEauClaire

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

#WINDAC2024

Wonderful day taking @UWEauClaire nursing students to the Capitol today. Thank you Representative Clint Moses, Wisconsin State Representative Donna Rozar, and Senator Jeff Smith!

@sensmithwi
@wisconsinnurses

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

#WINDAC2024

Thank you Senators Rachael Cabral-Guevara and Kelda Roy’s and Representatives Greta Neubauer and Gae Magnafici for speaking with 1000 nurses and nursing students about communicating with legislators!

@wisconsinnurses

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

#WINDAC2024

So proud to introduce Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez at NDAC with about 1000 students and RNs in attendance!

@wisconsinnurses
@UWEauClaire
#nurses
#nursingstudents
#Wisconsin

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

This is needed now more than ever - especially in the Chippewa Valley region with the HSHS & Prevea closings!

@GovEvers

[Wisconsin Nurses Association @wisconsinnurses]

APRN Bill: Victory in the Assembly! On to the Governor! The Assembly passed the Senate version of the APRN Modernization Act, SB 145 yesterday. This is the bill that WNA supported. LEARN MORE- https://t.co/qhbwNZ87JX

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

When programs and offices for what’s now called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) started to be created in the 1960s and 1970s, do you know what group opposed them the most? Jim Crow segregationists. Do you what Jim Crow segregationists renamed efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion? Discrimination. Racism.

Times have changed, the racist playbook remains the same.

[Wisconsin Nurses Association @wisconsinnurses]

🚨 Attention Nurses! 🚨
The NFW is offering $5,000 in educational scholarships for 2-4 individuals pursuing BSN Completion or Master's Degrees in Nursing (not APRN). 🎓💼
Applications open until Nov 15, 2023. Apply now! 👉
https://t.co/Xlml2DYGxP

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Went to the @HolocaustMuseum this morning before the @NLN Summit began.

#NLNSummit2023

[National League for Nursing @NLN]

National League for Nursing co-founder Isabel Hampton Robb was born #OnThisDay in 1859. Hampton was a nurse educator whose influential textbook "Nursing: Its Principles and Practice" helped establish standardization in nursing education. #NursingEducation #Nursing #History

[Anna Clemens, PhD @scientistswrite]

15 bookmark-worthy tools for researchers that cost you nothing and will save you time (& nerves) when researching, writing and publishing.

A thread. 🧵

#AcademicTwitter #AcWri #PostDoc

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#1: Track your time with Toggl ⌛

https://t.co/CSjKRFoS0i

• Understand how you are spending your time
• Track how long each task is taking you so you can plan accordingly
• Be more focused on the task at hand

I use Toggl daily.

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#2: Proof-read your papers with Writefull 🔎

https://t.co/vcYBY2XFni

• AI-powered proof-reading tool specifically for scientific texts
• Integrates into Word and Overleaf

Members of my program - the Researchers' Writing Academy - love this one!

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#3: Organise your references with Zotero 🗃️

https://t.co/5svcJL5Jly

• Open-source program
• Saves references from your browser
• Organises them in folders and using tags
• Creates bibliographies for your article
• Lets you co-create citation libraries with co-authors

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#4: Stay focused with Forest 🌳

https://t.co/tToDcNi0Vv

• Start the app when you want to write or deep work
• A virtual tree starts growing
• When you leave the app to do something else, the tree dies
• The larger your forest, the more deep work you got done!

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#5: Discover papers with Research Rabbit 🐰

https://t.co/LsfFCoGGRr

• Build your own citation network
• Label network entries
• Download paper PDFs
• Get alerts for new papers

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#6: Visualise your thoughts with XMind 🧠

https://t.co/vVEhz5GIJl

• Intuitive mindmapping tool
• Embed hyperlinks, images & attachments

Excellent for organising references for review papers or brainstorming the story of your paper!

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#7: Notion 🖥️

https://t.co/rCzNNJVHOr

• Powerful all-rounder
• Note-taking
• Project management
• Wikis & databases

Some members of my program - the Researchers’ Writing Academy - swear by it!

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#8: Listen to scientific papers with Audemic 🎧

https://t.co/947nFj8RQF

• Highlight text while listening
• Take notes
• Get summaries that go beyond the abstract

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#9: Record training or feedback videos with Loom 🎥

https://t.co/16fRAIIYvi

• Record your screen, webcam and/or audio
• Share the video link after recording
• 25x 5-min videos included in free plan

I use this one all the time!

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#10: Project manage your papers with Trello 🗂️

https://t.co/ITAn01Y2R9

• Use lists, cards & checklist to organise the tasks in each project
• Collaborate with co-authors
• Communicate via comment function

PS: We provide you with several Trello templates inside our program!

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#11: Choose your target journal with SciRev 📗

https://t.co/w4gbPzZd1g

• Compare publication speeds, peer review quality and journal statistics
• Contribute your own publishing experiences
• Made by researchers

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#12: Compare journal policies with Transpose ↗️

https://t.co/nHtjkyRPBY

• Compare journal policies on open peer review, co-reviewing and preprint policies

You might be surprised how vague some journals are on these topics!

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#13: Share methods on Protocols 🧪

https://t.co/Z2ZdpWbHWo

• Publish your chemical synthesis protocols, clinical trial descriptions or computational workflows
• Keep them updated
• Receive a DOI
• Run protocols as checklists
• Free for open research

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#14: Cite correctly with CiteAs 💬

https://t.co/uMYRKULRZv

• Obtain the correct citation for preprints, software and datasets in one click
• Open-source tool

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#15: Understand your research landscape with Dimensions 🌆

https://t.co/WAF5uRwmYl

• Analyse all research-related data (grants, papers, patents, datasets, online mentions, clinical trials, policy documents)
• Identify collaborators
• Find who has cited and used your work

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TL;DR - 15 free tools for researchers you should bookmark now

#1: Toggl
#2: Writefull
#3: Zotero
#4: Forest
#5: ResearchRabbit
#6: XMind
#7: Notion
#8: Audemic
#9: Loom
#10: Trello
#11: SciRev
#12: Transpose
#13: Protocols
#14: CiteAs
#15: Dimensions

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However, the best tools won’t make you more efficient at writing papers if you don’t have a streamlined writing process in place.

💻Therefore, if you liked this thread: Watch my free writing training 👇

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" has been taken off shelves due to attacks by the GOP, who wants to take away our right to read freely & learn a full account of history.

Sign to add "The Hill We Climb" to every recommended reading list in the US! 👇 https://t.co/BBac3g6A8H

[Gail Hanson Brenner, PhD, RN, CNE @brennegm]

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