Sign up for email newsletters; these are called Ezines, to receive
frequent updates on the State of the Art in nursing care. A list of
the best general nursing Ezines can be found below.
Email newsletters are a great way to get information and help you to
stay up to date. They deliver bite-size chunks of information. You
may have trouble sitting down to read a whole news article in one of
your journals because you don’t have the time to sit down and read that
journal from cover to cover.
But, with an Ezine, you get small pieces of information at a time.
Usually you can go through and read this in a few minutes. Usually,
it’s about two to three pages. E-mail newsletters are a great way to
stay up to date: they’re easy, quick, and for the most part they’re
free. Get the information, but make sure you take it back to work and
apply it in your practice right away. That’s how it’s really going to
sink in.
Some great nursing newsletters:
Nurses’ NewsWire: www.Nurses-NewsWire.com.
Medscape Nursing: www.medscape.com, click on newsletters at the top.
Nursing Insider from the ANA: www.nursingworld.org
Nursing 2006 E-alerts: www.nursing2006.com.
RNeNews, from RN magazine: www.RNWeb.com.
Best wishes,
David W. Woodruff, MSN, RN-BC, CNS, CEN
President, Ed4Nurses, Inc.
www.Ed4Nurses.com
www.dwoodruff.com