2015 Nightengale Nursing Blog Awards

Introducing the 2015 Nightingale Blog Award winners!  The Nightingale Blog Awards were established as a means to recognize the BEST nursing resources within the blogging community. After sifting through dozens of nursing websites, we’ve identified those who demonstrate superior efforts by providing updated information on nursing education, nursing careers, and an every-day glimpse into their world. To our 2015 winners, we send our warmest thanks for your efforts and recognize you now for your willingness to make a difference in the healthcare community! 

Included below is our list of 2015 Nightingale Blog Award winners (in no particular order).  We’ve included some of our favorite blog articles next to each site. 

Building Boys

• Stop Stereotyping Teen Boys

Digital Doorway

• A Speech for Graduate Nurses

Confident Voices in Health Care

• What Are & How Do We Build Positive Emergent Behaviors in Healthcare?

Nursetopia

• What If We Welcomed New Nurses Like We’d Want to Be Welcomed?

Nurse Together

• 10 Real Life Tips for Nursing Students Going Back to School

Off the Charts

• Some Essential AJN Resources on Care of Older Adults, Family Caregivers, More

The Nursing Show

• Hourly Rounding by Nurses Keep Patients Away from Call Button

Advances in Nurse Science Blog

• Caring across Cultural Groups

Reality RN

• Confronting Male Nurse Myths

Diversity Nursing

• Disabilities in Children Increase, Physical Problems Decline

Nursing Ideas

• Supporting Patients Using Online Tools to Collect Health Data

Soliant Health

• 6 Ways to Fight ‘Tired All The Time’ (TATT) Syndrome

Nursing Daily

• Eating Healthy: During 12hr Shifts

The Nurse Path

• How to Manage Your Patient with an Intellectual Disability

Living Sublime Wellness

• Essentials Steps to Enjoy Your Life (Even as a busy nurse)

RTConnections Nurse Blog

• #1 Deadly Sin Causing Nurse Bullying

Dear Nurses

• Dehydration – What Is It?

Your Career Nursing

• 7 Tips For Stressed Out Nurses

The Nerdy Nurse

• How to Pass the NCLEX with 75 Questions in One Attempt

Digital Doorway

• A Speech for Graduate Nurses

The Makings of a Nurse

• The Whole “Self-Care” Thing

Nurse Gail

• Negligent Nurses on Social Media | Medical Internet Ethics

The Days When I’m Not a Nurse

• How to Be the Perfect Patient

JParadisi RN’s Blog

• The Sacred Space of Patient Care

A Place I Call Home

• Stress

Sarah Beth RN

• The Science and The Art of Medicine

Rehab RN

• Looking for a Nursing Job?

Infusion Nurse

• Large Volume IV Solution Shortages

Registered Nurse RN

• Free Quiz to Discover Your Nursing Personality Type

A Writer in a Nurse’s Body

• Impossible Customer Service for All

According to Kateri

• A Fierce Advocate

Meta4RN

• A Mental Health Nurse in the General Hospital

Nursing Notes of Discord

• Tight Schedule

This Nurse Wonders

• How Dare You? Nursing [Data] At Its Finest

N Is for Nurse

• 6+ Years a Nurse, and…

The Underside of Nursing

• Complications

See Jane Nurse

• Consciousness

Marijke: Nurse Turned Writer

• Have I Read Anything You’ve Written?

RN2Writer

• Online Resources for Freelance Nurse Writers

Nurse in Australia

• Survey Reveals Nurses as the Most Highly Regarded Profession

Nurse Power!

• Are You Just a Service Provider?

Stethoscopes and Scrubs

• Continuing Education

Nurse Eye Roll

• How to Deal With Gossipy Nurses

Word Lust

• How Not to Manage Your Stress

Making Memories

• The Weight of the World

Nurse Barb’s Daily Dose

• Questions Every Man Should Ask About Health

Nurse Practitioners in Business

• 5 Low Overhead Practice Ideas

The NP Mom

• A Surgeon General’s Call to Action No One Should Ignore

Ask the Nurse Practitioner

• Advice for Health Care Professionals – Treat Patients The Way You Want to Be Treated

Mimi Secor

• Mammograms in Older Women Better Done Biennially Than Annually

It Shouldn’t Happen in Healthcare

• Alternative Medical Dictionary

My Strong Medicine

• Advice to My Pre-Nursing Self

Nurse Story

• Encouraging Student Writing: Kindness Matters

Advance for NPs and PAs

• Failure to Communicate

The Nurse Practitioner’s Place

• Changes in Practice Locations
• Should You Shadow at a Location before Working There?

Barefoot Nurse

• Not a Physician, Not a Nurse…What?

NP Odyssey

• NP Independence Expands Again

Nurse Practitioner Bootcamp

• Be Prepared

At Your Cervix

• A Synopsis of Office Days

Nursing School Ins and Outs

• I’m still alive!! Tomorrow is the NCLEX!

This Nursing Journey

• Office Space

Adrienne, Student Nurse

• Introduction to a Patient

Confessions of a Student Nurse

• Reasons Nursing School Is Worth It

A Journey through Nursing School and Beyond

• Once upon a time…

BSN Degree

• Advice for Nursing Students

Nursing: RAW

• The Verdict Is IN!

She’s Off Again

• Juggling

The Dean’s Blog

• An Opportunity to Reduce Premature Births

The Nurse Teacher

• The Patient’s Perspective

Noggin Blog

• New Grants for Tech

EDNurseasauras, Still in the Trenches

• Tao of Scrubs

Our Front Door

• It’s Not What We Do, It’s Who We Are.

Blissful Entropy

• Convalescing

Madness: Tales of an Emergency Room Nurse

• Drug Seeker Fail
• The Lighted Rocky Thing in the Lobby

ER Nursing Insanity: The Traveling Years

• Night Shift

Travel Nursing Blogs

• The Future of Nursing

Sunbelt Staffing

• Overcoming Feeling Lonely While on Your First Healthcare Travel Assignment

Travel Nurse Source: Notes

• You’ll Never Guess What Celebs are Former Nurses

Disruptive Women in Healthcare

• Stop Expecting Antibiotics to Be Handed Out Routinely: Here’s Why

ONS Connect Blog

• Do You Know How and When to Manage Depression in Patients With Cancer?

Tales of a School Zoned Nurse

• Premature Tears

Correctional Nurse

• Personal Safety during Medication Administration

Jail Medicine

• Pseudoseizures—the Right Approach

Hospice Diary

• Gifts of Love

Lois Roelofs

• Happiness Can Be a Woman’s Purse

INQRI Blog

• Nurses Lead Innovations in Geriatrics and Gerontology

The Adventures of Nurse Niki

• Rashes & Fevers

Midlife Nursing Crisis

• Dealing with Burn Out

Nurse on the Run

• The Reality of Nurses on TV

What Should We Call Nursing?

• When I Get the Narc Count Wrong and Have to Be Extra Careful Not to Screw Up a Second Time

Building Boys

• Stop Stereotyping Teen Boys

Nurse Manifest

• What Are Nurses Saying?

FlightBridgeED

• Identifying Horsepower

Nursing Research

• Clinical Inquiry