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.