Summary of the Group discussion: "Blogging" + "Nursing"

In my Yahoo! Group, we had discussed something about blogging and nursing. This is my question.

"Why do we as a student nurse need to learn about creating a blog since we are not using it in the ward?if we learn it and create it for the purpose of the IT course, do u think that student nurse will continue blogging after they finish this course?"

For the first question, someone said that blogging can be a tool to share information among a certain group of individuals of shared interests or maybe even profession. Blogging give us the opportunity to share our thoughts about what happened in the wards, and also view other people's blogs to get info about theirs. Continuous blogging can helps us to build a strong relationship among the colleague besides improving the nursing career as we can share many information and gaining new idea regarding the life and profession. Although we do not use in the world, it is beneficial to learn new things.

Someone also said that blogging can help our thinking to be more expanded and open-minded and not limit to our surrounding only. By sharing information and discussing anything that came out in our mind in our blog, this can be one way to release our tension after a long day working and facing many patients' behaviour. We can share anything that we want to tell people about our daily activity, our feelings and etc.. this can reduce our stress level. In conclusion, this is the world full of IT, blogging has been used so widely in this world, so as a nurse, we must know how to use it in order to get the newest and latest information.

For the second question, I had set up a poll related to it in order to get more accurate response.

Question
blogging..do you think that you will continue blogging after this course?
Yes
No

From the poll, I get the result that 61% of my Group members which mean 11 persons will continue blogging after the IT course while 38% of my Group members which mean 7 persons will not continue blogging after this course. People who choose the answer 'Yes' might due to the answer that they gave in the first question. People who choose the answer 'No' have their own reason.

They think that not everyone can surf Internet in their home. Plenty of work and their own commitment that need to be done after they graduated and time is limited if compared to the time which they have during their studies. Besides, someone said that nurse is a job that work on different shift, they may have limited time to write blog. But all of this is all depend on personal whether to continue or not. Maybe after 1o years time in future, there is wireless in every way or in the whole country and we can surf Internet whenever and wherever we like. There is no problem about difficulty in access to the Internet exist again in future. There is nothing that we can predict what will happen in future.

As a owner/moderator of the Group, how do you manage your Group?

On the first day of the IT class, we were ask to create a Yahoo! Group. So, now each of us have our own group. We were ask to think of one topic and discuss in our own Group. In my group, I had come out with topic about "blogging" and as the owner of the group, I have to facilitate the discussion in order to make the group work well and complete the discussion. How?

First : Planning.
I plan about the discussion and my Group. I plan about the question that I am going to ask. I make sure that my question is not sensitive to anyone. I also make sure that my question is simple and easy to understand in order to prevent anyone discuss out of topic. Then, I also set a poll in my Group. The question of the poll is related to the topic in the discussion. Through this poll, i can get more accurate and specific answer from my Group members. This poll can help the members to understand more about the question in the discussion.

Second : Monitoring
After posting the question in my Group, I will spend some time everyday to the computer lab to read on the messages that my Group members reply. This is to make sure that my Group members are discussing according to the topic and not out of topic. At the same time, I will also reply and give my opinion about the messages that my Group members have post. If my members have any question about the discussion, I will try my best to answer them too. This is the way that I monitor the discussion in my Group.

Third : Evaluating
After all the members had reply to the discussion and complete the discussion, i will read all the messages again and collect all different answer and response that given by all members. I will also closed the poll and collect the data from the poll which can give me actual number about who agree and who disagree about the topic. At last, I will make a conclusion by using all the information that collect from the discussion and poll. I will also post the conclusion in the Group in order to share with my Group members.

Journal on how to create a digital group/portfolio.

On the first day of IT class, I had learnt to create a Group in Yahoo. A Group is a place where you can invite your friends to become group members and have discussion in the group. You can exchange idea or opinion among your group members in the group. It is not difficult to create a Group. You just need to follow a few steps.


Step 1: Log in to your Yahoo account.

Step 2: Click on "Start your group".

Step 3: You can choose your Groups Category. You can either choose your group category in the list or you can type in the space prepared to search the group categories that you want and not in the list.

Step 4: To be more specific to categorize your group, you need to choose the group category that are more specific again.

Step 5: You can either continue to search for Group Category that best descibes your Group or if the Group Category that your choose in the previous is enough to describe your Group, you can click on "Place my group here" to continue to the next step.

Step 6: Decribe your Group. You need to fill in some details about your Group. Afer filling all the details,click on "Continue".

Step 7: The last step. Select your Yahoo! profile and email address for your Group. Then click on "Continue". Then after this, you will have your own Group.

After your group have created, you can start to invite your friends to join your group. Then, you can post messages in your group so that you can have discussion with your members. You can share photo or file with your friends in the group. As the group owner, you can also edit the membership in order to prevent people tht you don't know to join the group.

Journal on how to create a signature in email and the importance of the email signature.

Before entering the IT class, I never think of using a signature everytime i sent mail. During the first day of the IT class, the lecturer introduced us the email signature and taught us how to create a signature. Actually create a signature is not complicated. What you need to do is follow the few steps below and you can have your own signature and it appear in your mail everytime you sent out.


Step 1: Log in to your email account.


Step 2: Find the word "Options" and click on it.


Step 3: Click on "Mail Options".

Step 4: Click on "Signature"

Step 5: You can start to create your own signature. You can do a lot things on your signature. You can change the text font, font size, font colour and many more. You can even insert emotions in your signature. Lastly, tick on the box of "Add signature to all outgoing messages". Then, everytime you send mail, your signature will automatically appear in your mail.

An email signature is important in an email. The main advantages of an email signature are ease and time-saving. When you have a simple thank you that need to send to your friends, you do not need to type again your name in your email messages, your signature that include you name will automatically added to your email messages, imagine how convenience of having it. However, email signatures become much more useful once you put in your contact details including your web site address, phone numbers and alternate email addresses - the recipient will immediately know how to contact you!

Nursing...

I put nursing as the first choice when applying for the IPTA. I never thought that i will get this course before because with my STPM result, i don't think i can get it. Actually when i pick this course, quite a lot of people came and ask me, "why do you choose nursing?" "you are interested to become a nurse?"...i knew they were quite surprise and me myself was quite surprise too because for my whole life, i never think of becoming a nurse. So when they ask me, my answer is always "there is always a vacancy for a nurse, i don't need to worry about finding a job in future". This is my answer before entering the university. But after studying one semester in this course, i found that i have different answer for the question.

For most people, they might think that nurse is always doing some cleaning job, but actually no. Nurse can do a lot of things which can really help a patient to recover. A nurse care for the patient. A nurse give medication as prescribed by the doctor to the patient in the ward. A nurse can do dressing and help patient to clean their wound. Nurses are really doing a lot of work and work hard in the hospital to help the patient to heal. Nurses help people to regain their health. I gained a lot of knowlegde which not only can help in taking care the patient but also my family and friends.

 

So now if there is someone who come ask me the same question about why i want to become a nurse, i will answer "I want to help people and love to help people. That's is why i become a nurse." 

hi hi..

This is my first time writing blog. A lot of my friends have a blog and they did invite me to write a blog, but due to my lazyness, i just reject...but still, at last, i still need to create a blog and become a blogger because of a course i am taking in my study now which are 'FJ1623 Teknologi Maklumat Kejururawatan'. Advance right?the course is teaching me how to create a blog..but anyhow, in order to let me survive and succeed in this course, i will fight with my lazyness in order to let my blog always exist..hope anyone who read this can wish me good luck.