meta4RN archive
“meta4RN“ is a homophone that can be read as either “metaphor RN” or “meta for RN”
From September 2012 to September 2022 this nursing blog yielded over 200 posts and nearly 200,000 words.
The meta4RN.com website was mothballed in September 2023, and can now only be accessed via the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine), Trove (National Library of Australia) or the free version of Wordpress.
Below is a chronological list of the content on meta4RN, a brief description of the post/page, date and a link to an archived version.
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meta4RN.com content [the free wordpress version]
Home
Introduction/landing page
About
Introduction
Hello World!
meta4RN.wordpress.com/hello-world
Introduction
SoMe, You + AHPRA
meta4RN.wordpress.com/some-you-ahpra
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Breast is best. Bottles are good enough
meta4RN.wordpress.com/breast-is-best-1
Validation of bottle feeding as an option for some families
Deploying complex information via a QR Code
Description of a prize-winning idea presented at the Health Roundtable
What is social media saying about perinatal and infant mental health this week
meta4RN.wordpress.com/pmh-paper
Introduction of a “virtual newspaper”
#acmhn2012: Looking Back at a Mental Health Nursing Conference through a Social Media Lens
meta4RN.wordpress.com/acmhn2012
Description of social media use at conferences, and collation of Twitter data from ACMHN’s 38th International Mental Health Nursing Conference
Using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
Tips for clinical practice
#bePNDaware: Looking Back at Postnatal Depression Awareness Week through a Social Media Lens
meta4RN.wordpress.com/bepndaware
Collation of data re a social media campaign
On Being a Dementia Nurse Newbie
meta4RN.wordpress.com/dementia
Tips for clinical practice
Questions of Compassion
meta4RN.wordpress.com/questions-of-compassion
Reflective practice and social media
We Nurses: Communication and Compassion
meta4RN.wordpress.com/wenurses
Reflective practice and social media
That Was Bloody Stressful! What’s Next?
Staff resource re acute stress reactions
Nurturing the Nurturers
meta4RN.wordpress.com/nurturers
Clinical supervision
Social Media for Nurses: my ten step, slightly-ranty, version
Social media tips
What has social media been saying about clinical supervision this week?
Introduction of a “virtual newspaper”
Precovery: a proactive version of recovery
meta4RN.wordpress.com/precovery
Utilising mental health recovery principles for pregnant women and new mums
The National Perinatal Depression Initiative and a Canary in a Coal Mine?
Lamenting the defunding of a perinatal mental health program
Perinatal Jargon Busting
Tips for clinical practice
Dymphna: The Amazing Story of a Catholic Patron Saint
Marrying history/fable with contemporary practice
Should May 15th be International Mental Health Nurse Day?
Discussion-starter
#ICNAust2013: Looking Back at a Nursing Conference through a Social Media Lens
meta4RN.wordpress.com/icnaust2013
Description of social media use at conferences, and collation of Twitter data from ICN’s 25th
Quadrennial Congress
Perinatal Mental Health Workshop: an experiment in social media enhanced education
meta4RN.wordpress.com/workshop
Marrying a traditional education format with social media
Blokes + Kids + Pics #bePNDaware
Promoting a social media campaign
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Nurse eNetwork
meta4RN.wordpress.com/enetwork
Promoting an email network
Omnipresent and always available: a mental health nurse on Twitter
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
#ACMHN Looking back at the 2013 Consultation Liaison / Perinatal Infant Conference through a Social Media Lens
Description of social media use at conferences, and collation of Twitter data from ACMHN Consultation Liaison / Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Nurses Annual Conference
#HCSMANZ: be unafraid, speak up, join in (letter in the TQN)
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Thinking Health Communication? Think Mobile.
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Follow Friday and other Twitterisms
Tips for using social media
Mental Health Nurses in the Pacific (to be specific) #alajcu2013
Discussion of two outcomes from a workshop
Emotional Aftershocks
meta4RN.wordpress.com/aftershocks
Reflective practice and patient aggression
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Reflection on the transition of medical records from paper to computer-based
Hits and Misses: The First Twelve Months of meta4RN
meta4RN.wordpress.com/12months
Collation of data re social media
Professional use of Twitter (my #ACMHN2013 conference poster)
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
A Twitter Workshop in Tweets
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
Professional use of Twitter and Healthcare Social Media #NPD100
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
The Myth of the National Perinatal Depression Initiative
Lamenting the defunding of a perinatal mental health program
Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
Reflective practice and patient aggression
Nursing’s Peculiar Privilege
meta4RN.wordpress.com/privilege
Reflective practice and patient suicide
Perinatal Mental Health: A Good News Story
meta4RN.wordpress.com/goodnews
Reimagining a public health campaign
Cyclone: Alert, Not Alarmed
Reimagining public messaging
Perinatal Mental Health Workshop Links and Resources
Marrying a traditional education format with social media
Yay AHPRA!
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Trying to Stay Focused
Reflective practice and patient centred care
Football, Nursing and Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision
Luddites I Have Known
meta4RN.wordpress.com/luddites
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
List of Australian Nurse Colleges
meta4RN.wordpress.com/colleges
A list
Does the End Justify the Meanness?
meta4RN.wordpress.com/meanness
A critique of proposed government legislation
A Mental Health Nurse in the General Hospital
Overview of the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry CNC role
Stay connected, stay strong… before and after baby
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Will GP copayment increase violence in hospitals?
Guest post by Briana Scully
Lalochezia
meta4RN.wordpress.com/lalochezia
Tips for clinical practice
How to do Dodgy Research: A Case Study
Critique
Sample Clinical Supervision Agreement
Clinical supervision
These words have been in my head and they needed to come out (a blog post about suicide)
Guest post
A Blog About A Blog About Suicide
meta4RN.wordpress.com/mindframe
Promoting the Mindframe campaign/principals
“It’s a Fine Line” – Myth vs Reality
meta4RN.wordpress.com/fineline
Tips for clinical practice
Free Open Access Mental Health Education for General Nurses and Midwives #FOANed
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Defending Mental Health in Nursing Education
A critique of the misrepresentation and misuse of Mental Health First Aid
Humanity to Man
Reprising a newspaper column from March 2003
Movies, Myths, Mistakes
Reprising a newspaper column from August 2003
A Nurse’s Guide to Twitter
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media commissioned by Ausmed
The Art of Mental Health
Reflective practice
What does a Public Mental Health Service Look Like?
meta4RN.wordpress.com/community
Description of mental health service, emphasising that it is primarily outpatient-orientated
Nurses on the 2015 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours15
List and biographies of honoured nurses
Health Professionalism and Digital Citizenship
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
Nurses with Cred
Professional credentialing for nurses
Fun Facts re Nursing and Midwifery
meta4RN.wordpress.com/funfacts
Referenced list of interesting info about nursing
We Bald Nurses
meta4RN.wordpress.com/webaldnurses
List of bald nurses on Twitter
When it’s illegal to be ethical
A critique of proposed government legislation
Living Close to the Water
Reflective practice and death
Crisis? What Crisis?
Tips for clinical practice
Once Up, Twice Down (not as depressing as it sounds)
Mindfulness & listening to lifts
Nurses on the 2016 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours16
List and biographies of honoured nurses
The Last 40-Odd Weeks
A reflection on a career disappointment
Example of Nursing Curriculum Vitae
Tips for career development
Mental State Examination: Looking, Listening and Asking
Tips for clinical practice
Nurses, Midwives, Medical Practitioners, Suicide and Stigma
Reflective practice and self compassion
What can Mental Health Nurses learn from the Amazing Story of a Catholic Patron Saint? (my #ACMHN2016 conference poster)
Marrying history/fable with contemporary practice
Learn about Obesity (and Twitter) via Nurses Tweeting at a Conference
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Why on earth would a Mental Health Nurse bother with Twitter? (my #ACMHN2016 presentation)
meta4RN.wordpress.com/acmhn2016
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
The Broken Leg/Psychosis Metaphor
Tips for clinical practice
Twitter is a Vector (my #ACIPC16 presentation)
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
Hand Hygiene and Mindful Moments
Reflective practice and self compassion
Dear Australian Student Nurses (a letter of encouragement, with data and a song)
Tips for career development
Mental Health and Cognitive Changes in the Older Adult
meta4RN.wordpress.com/ausmed16
Tips for clinical practice
Blatant Self-Promotion
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Nurses on the 2017 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours17
List and biographies of honoured nurses
The problem is the date, not the day
meta4RN.wordpress.com/changethedate
A critique of government legislation
The Hearing-Voices/Car-Driving Metaphor
Tips for clinical practice
First Thyself
Reflective practice and self compassion
Nurse can’t take Pulse. Seriously.
Critique of a TV show
Phatic Chat: embiggening small talk.
Tips for clinical practice
Social Media and Digital Citizenship: A CL Nurse’s Perspective
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
She ignored her emotions while labelling his corpse #8WordStory
meta4RN.wordpress.com/8wordstory
Reflective practice and creative writing
Nurses on the 2018 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/nurses-on-the-2018-australia- day-honours-list
List and biographies of honoured nurses
A Conversation about Documentation in Consultation Liaison
meta4RN.wordpress.com/documentation
Tips for clinical practice
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
meta4RN.wordpress.com/butterfly
Archive of Tweets
Delirium Risks and Prevention
meta4RN.wordpress.com/delirium
Archive of Tweets
In praise of marking assignments
Archive of Tweets
Stay Connected, Stay Strong
meta4RN.wordpress.com/connected
Archive of Tweets
#OzNurses
meta4RN.wordpress.com/oznurses
Archive of Tweets
My White Privilege
A rebuttal to misleading public commentary 180328 1347
Obesity: Personal or Social Responsibility
meta4RN.wordpress.com/conftweets
Archive of Tweets
@WePublicHeath
meta4RN.wordpress.com/wepublichealth
Archive of Tweets
#WeNurses Twitter Chat re Communication and Compassion
Archive of Tweets
Sex Essentials – The Fairy Tale
Archive of Tweets 180509 397
Diabetes and Emotional Health
meta4RN.wordpress.com/diabetes
Public education session
2018 ACMHN Consultation Liaison / Perinatal Infant Mental Health Conference on Twitter
meta4RN.wordpress.com/brisneyland
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Developing, designing and deploying a perinatal mental health referral pathway
Tips for clinical practice
BridgeBuilders
meta4RN.wordpress.com/bridgebuilders
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Perinatal Mental Health Workshop Links + Resources 2018
meta4RN.wordpress.com/perinatal
Tips for clinical practice
Top 5 Tips for #ACMHN2018 Delegates
Self compassion
Clinical Care and Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision
Why on earth would a mental health nurse use social media?
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Diagnostic Overshadowing [original, now updated]
meta4RN.wordpress.com/shadoworiginal
Tips for clinical practice
Conversations, not just citations, count: Social Media and the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
#ACMHN2018 on Twitter
meta4RN.wordpress.com/acmhn2018
Description of social media use at conferences
Your Ordinary is Extraordinary
meta4RN.wordpress.com/ordinary
Reflective practice
If you can Tweet you can Blog (and vice versa)
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Australian Clinical Supervision Association (ACSA) inaugural Cairns Local Members Meeting
Clinical supervision
Snow White, Complex Trauma and Twitter
meta4RN.wordpress.com/snowwhite
Archive of Tweets
Diagnostic Overshadowing
Tips for clinical practice
Nurses on the 2019 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours2019
List and biographies of honoured nurses
Self Care: Surviving emotionally taxing work environments
meta4RN.wordpress.com/selfcare
Reflective practice and self compassion
Zap!
Just for fun
Thanks
Reflective practice and self compassion
10 Delirium Misconceptions
meta4RN.wordpress.com/10delirium
Tips for clinical practice
ieMR Liaison Psych Templates
Tips for clinical practice
Share or Perish!
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Protecting Nurses and Patients
Reflective practice and clinical supervision
Scale Fail
Critique of a TV show
Ye Olde Yahoo CL Nurse eMail Network
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
How can we be integrated if nobody knows about us? #ACMHN2019
meta4RN.wordpress.com/acmhn2019
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media. Conference presentation.
A tale of two hashtags
Description of social media use at conferences
Digital Professionalism 📱 vs The Dinosaurs 🦕
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Complimentary Criticism
Reflective practice and cultural safety
Email to a suicide survivor
meta4RN.wordpress.com/digital01
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Email to a person who experiences persistent pain
meta4RN.wordpress.com/digital02
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
20 Tweetable Fun Facts for 2020: Year of the Nurse #Nurses2020
meta4RN.wordpress.com/nurses2020
Referenced list of interesting info about nursing
Nurses on the 2020 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours2020
List and biographies of honoured nurses
School Based Youth Health Nurse (SBYHN)
Reflective practice
Clean Hands. Clear Head.
Self compassion
Positive Practice Environment (the other PPE)
Reflective practice and self compassion
Supporting Nurses’ Psychological and Mental Health
Reflective practice and self compassion
An end of April #COVID19 snapshot (Queensland perspective)
Self compassion
Saint Dymphna and The Zombies – a mental health nurse’s perspective
Marrying history/fable with contemporary practice
One. Step. Beyond.
Clinical tips and self compassion
Liaison in the Time of #COVID19
Reflective practice and self compassion
Are there smartphone apps specifically for people who experience eating disorders?
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Cairns Nursing and Midwifery Awards 2020
Reflective practice and a humble brag
Batman is a hero. I am a health professional.
Reflective practice and self compassion
My First Podcast
Reflective practice and self compassion
Queensland’s #COVID19 Comparative Advantage
Reflective practice
2020 has been weird.
Just for fun
Responding to Trauma
Tips for clinical practice
Twenty Twenty Hindsight
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Nurses on the 2021 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours2021
List and biographies of honoured nurses
Ye Olde Antiemetic Sniffing of Alcohol Swabs
Tips for clinical practice
Clinical Supervision Starter Kit
Clinical supervision
Vaccination Celebration
Self compassion
Axe the Fax
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
Mental Health in the General Hospital
Tips for clinical practice
Why don’t nurses trust Australia’s most trusted profession (nurses)?
Reflective practice
Mental Health in the General Hospital (video version)
Tips for clinical practice
Nurses on the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List
List and biographies of honoured nurses
Voluntary Assisted Dying (a nurse’s open letter to their state member of parliament)
A critique of proposed government legislation
A Nurse’s Digital Identity
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
CLovid Communication
Tips for clinical practice
Vax Facts for Nurses by Nurses
meta4RN.wordpress.com/vaxfacts
Tips for clinical practice
Voluntary DOES Mean Voluntary; Scaremongering Means Scaremongering
meta4RN.wordpress.com/voluntary
A rebuttal to misleading public commentary
Q: RUOK? A: Not really. I’m a nurse.
Reflective practice and self compassion
Share or Perish: Social media motivation for busy and important academics
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Beginning of the End
Announcing the end of meta4RN.com
Never Iron Again
Just for fun
Self Compassion and Post Traumatic Growth amongst Nurses in the Pandemic (Hooray for Grey Hairs!)
Self compassion
The @CairnsHelp swing tag QR code (brochures are so last century)
meta4RN.wordpress.com/brochures
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
A Health Professional’s Guide to Twitter
meta4RN.wordpress.com//twitter
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
Queensland COVID-19 Data Compared with Similar-Sized Populations (an amateur pre- border opening baseline)
meta4RN.wordpress.com/baseline
Collation of data
Idea to Tackle Nurse Stereotyping (1993-1994 version)
Just for fun
Switching Operating Systems
Reflective practice and self compassion
Nurses on the 2022 Australia Day Honours List
meta4RN.wordpress.com/honours2022
List and biographies of honoured nurses
Surfing the Omicron Wave
Reflective practice and self compassion
Self Compassion: surviving and thriving in emotionally taxing work environments
Self compassion and clinical supervision
don’t be that guy
Tips for clinical practice
freedumb
A rebuttal to misleading public commentary
Why choose Mental Health Nursing?
Tips for career development
Goodbye Flo. Hello Hildegard.
Discussion-starter
Happy Anniversary International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
Marrying history with contemporary practice
Nurses on the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List
List and biographies of honoured nurses
Mental Health Nursing making an impact
Celebration of a milestone
Info for 1:1 AIN/Special
Tips for clinical practice
ieMR MHA autotext
Tips for clinical practice
Self Compassion (TikTok try)
meta4RN.wordpress.com/tiktoktry
Self compassion
When a nurse in the know writes a book you probably should read it.
Celebration of a colleague’s work
Nursing in the Tropics: Experience the Lifestyle! (circa 2002)
Nostalgia
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service @ CHHHS Eating Disorder Forum
Tips for clinical practice
200 Supporting the person diagnosed with a personality disorder who presents to the Emergency Department following intentional self-harm
Celebration of a co-produced book chapter
Poster for 2022 FNQ/CHHHS Research and Innovation Symposium
meta4RN.wordpress.com/symposium
An argument in favour of health professionals using information technology
EAT Target
Tips for clinical practice
Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness Week (#BIEDAW) 2022 @ Cairns Hospital Grand Rounds
Tips for clinical practice
If I stay lucky…
A personal perspective on voluntary assisted dying
On RATs and Nice
Emotional intelligence
How to be a Journal Social Media Editor
An argument in favour of health professionals using social media
That’ll do. Seeya.
Collation of data and reflections re social media
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