Twitter is a great way to keep updated on nursing issues and to get involved in the nursing community. Twitter can be used to help with CPD and PREP requirements and is a useful tool to allow nurses to share thoughts, ideas and experience. If you are new to twitter and this is a guide that will help you to start.
1 Go to www.twitter.com and sign up to twitter
2 Add some information about yourself
3. Search for people you want to follow by searching for them and clicking on
follow, our recommendations are :
@NurChat
@theRCN
@NewcrossHealth
@NursingTimes
@RCNPublishing
@NMCNews
@BBCHealth
4 You can then Tweet about anything you find interesting or you think that others will find interesting.
5 You can reply to any tweets that you find interesting and chat with other twitter users
6. You can also re-tweet a tweet that someone else has written that you like or find interesting.
7. You can search for subjects that you find interesting to find others that are interested in the same subject eg by searching for NursingTimes you will view all tweets that are by, or to, or mention the Nursing Times and you can join in nursing discussions.
Always remember that Twitter is a public forum and must be treated as such and thereforeconfidentiality must be adhered to at all times. The NMC have produced guidelines in relation to this and this can be found here. It is strongly recommended that you read this before starting out.
For guidance on joining in NurChat please go to our
“New to Nurchatting” page
