The latest installment of Change of Shift is up over at The Nurse Practitioner’s Place with our infamous Nurse Practitioner (who saves lives). She gives us the down and dirty “Oh no you didn’t’ edition.

This was her first time hosting our wonderful Blog Carnival, and she did a great job!. Like other hosts before her, she also urges everyone to keep submitting posts. The amount of blog post being submitted keeps dwindling. I talked about that here.

I was bad and didn’t submit a post this edition. Can I use the ‘life was busy’ or ‘I was sick’ excuse?. This were truly busy these past two weeks. Heck I haven’t really posted anything of worth in quite some time.

As always a BIG THANK YOU to Kim over at Emergiblog for getting the CoS party started!

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Are you a blogger?

Are you involved in the career of nursing?

Then this is all about YOU!

BLOG = short for weB LOG. We have all started a blog for many reasons. Some did it for personal validation, others wanted to use it as a therapeutic tool, and the majority just wanted their voice to be heard.

Nursing bloggers do just that and more. We use our blogs to share, to educate, to inform, to vent frustrations, and if anything shed a little bit more light on what that darn word ‘nursing’ is all about.

We’re out there. Spread across the blogosphere in so many different forms. Our blogging is equally as diverse as our career. There is no simple or straight answer to nursing, and there is no simple or straight answer to blogging about nursing! That’s what is so great about our messages, we come from many walks of the nursing path!

So many sharing so much. Our numbers are vast, but a thin spread can be so ineffective at getting our messages out there. There is something said about the power of focused energy. Don’t you think centralizing and corralling our efforts would give our voices such an amazing amount of leverage and power? What if we could all congregate in one place of the blogosphere to share our words and echo our voices loud enough for all to hear?

Guess what?

THERE IS

It’s called a Blog Carnival.

Kim’s blog Emergiblog has such a thing called Change of Shift! It’s a blog carnival for nurses. A blog carnival for bloggers from all walks of life along the path of nursing.

It’s a simple yet effective way of sharing your voice. There is no right or wrong. Are you blogging about nursing? Then be sure to participate! It’s that simple.

Do you have a blog (or two, or three) post you’d like to share? Here’s what you do:

You can formally submit your blog post here: The official Blog Carnival website

Or

You can email Kim over at Emergiblog directly : kmcallister-nine-one-one at yahoo.com (you can figure it out)

Here’s what’s great about a nursing blog carnival:

You get to share your voice and your blog content which means more traffic to YOUR blog

You get to meet and learn about other nursing bloggers

You have the chance to learn and grow with those who share your passion.

So stop on over to this weeks Change of Shift (CoS). And while you’re there look at the Change of Shift schedule. The next CoS is in two weeks and it will be hosted by Keith over at Digital Doorway.

Be sure to send Keith your blog submission!

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The latest installment of Change of Shift is up over at Emergiblog with none other than the creator of this amazing nursing blog carnival Kim! CoS is back home for this edition.

It was a little disheartening to learn there were not many blog post submissions by med blogging nurses around the blogosphere. Now I know there is not a shortage! I personally visit quite a number of nursing blogs. So I know you’re out there!

Kim left open a discussion on how to proceed with the future of Change of Shift. I would love to hear your feedback, either here or over at the original CoS post.

I am one of the guilty. I was lazy this week and did not submit a post (even though I vaguely remember having 2 or three in mind for CoS)!

As always a BIG THANK YOU to Kim over at Emergiblog for getting the CoS party started!

All my fellow nursing bloggers out there please chime in, we want to hear from you. No matter how much experience you have as a nurse or as a blogger, we want you! You’re blogging may have many reasons, but I’m willing to bet one of them is to have the chance for others to hear your voice!

Let’s hear it!

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