Twitter Chats

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Members of the BACCN National Board will be hosting regular Twitter Chats and encourage you to join them at @BACCNUK.

Dates are listed below and remember to use the relevent # to follow the conversation. 

New to Twitter? CLICK HERE to download our step by step guide on how to get involved and join in the conversation.

Following some feedback our regular twitter are now on a rolling schedule which means the chat will take place on a different day of the week every month to enable more of you to take part, although each chat will still start at 7pm for 1 hour.  Looking forward to continue our debates around some very interesting topics.

#letskeeptheconversationgoing by @karin_gerber on behalf of @BACCNUK 

All chats will take place 19:00 - 20:00

• Incivility in hospital environment - 7th of October (Monday)   #rudenessatwork  
• Compliance with EWS - 5th of November (Tuesday) #ews
• Pet therapy: pro / con - 11th of December (Wednesday) #pets
• Enhanced levels of care: how does this impact ICU - 16th of January (Thursday) #enhanced
• Pediatric patient in adult ICU - 21st of Feb (Friday) #paeds
• Staff moves across the organisation - 23rd of March (Monday) #staffmove
• Children visiting in ICU - 28th of April (Tuesday) #visit 
• Artificial Intelligence & ventilation: scary and off or allowing critical care nursing further autonomy - 6th of May (Wednesday) #AI
• NIV: proactive vs STDS - 11th of June (Thursday) #NIV
• HELP: I'm presenting at conference, what now?- 10th of July (Friday) #presentation
• #BACCNConf2020 - 7th of September (Monday) 

 *Topics subject to change* Click on topics for more info

Why we should engage with SoME as Professionals

For more information on why we should engage with SoMe please see below link and video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6xJkePaGq0&feature=youtu.be

Twitter Chat News - October #rude

Well, the twitter chat regarding rudeness at work was brilliant!! A massive thank you to everyone who took part. Sadly it seems that most of us are the victims of rudeness at work every week and often daily. 

Causes of rudeness may be overwork, stress, tiredness and unachievable expectations. HALT (hungry, angry, late and tired) was suggested as an acronym for the potential to be rude. We can all empathise with staff in this position!!! 

We talked about how rudeness makes us feel and you offered some very powerful examples "underappreciated" "undervalued" "belittled" "feeling dismissed" "distracted" and "questioning my profession". We also felt that not all rudeness is verbal and how an eye roll and looking the other way when you are speaking can be just as upsetting for the recipient. But does rudeness at work affect your job and how you make decisions. You thought it did. We reflect on that episode of rudeness long after the event and when put in a similar situation this has the potential to have a cumulative stress effect. This in turn affects how we make clinical decisions, how confident we are and how able we feel to stand up for ourselves and our patients. It can create a culture of fear!

So what is the answer. It is unlikely that out stress levels, workloads and hunger pangs are going to reduce anytime soon! For me it is about having emotional intelligence, an awareness of the incidence and impact being rude can have on another person and how, often unintentionally, you may be the rude one! Our ability to reflect on our own behavior and how others may view us is so important especially when we hold leadership roles. It is often so easy to forget about the pressures others are under, the stress felt by a newly qualified nurse, the ward nurse trying to free up beds for patients waiting in the emergency department. 

My take home messages from the chat were before I make judgement on others remember the saying "walk a mile in my shoes". We don't know what pressures that person is feeling. Kill them with kindness, manners, compassion and respect cost nothing!!! Finally an acceptance that we all have it in us to be rude to others so the ability to reflect and the courage to go back and say "I'm sorry" makes us the people we want to be.

Please find our usual Twitter wakelet summary https://wke.lt/w/s/SPBDfp that can be used for revalidation purposes. 

Why not join us for our next twitter chat which will be taking place on Tuesday the 5th of November where we'll be talking about "compliance with EWS", so why not join in and #keeptheconversationgoing  https://www.baccn.org/events/twitter-chats/

Thank you

@credland_nicki on behalf of the @BACCNUK