The idea of creating this site is something I’ve been threatening people with for a while now. I’m drawn to a pretty wide variety of interests and they kept fighting for attention in my head so this format seemed to provide me a way with being able to do some simultaneous verbs… express, understand, discuss, learn, teach, and be mindful while doing so.
Figuring out what I want to do is still a bit squirmy and non-linear, as my nurse scientist mentor Cindy once said during a great conversation. But I’ve met so many great people and continue to do so. That’s why I thought of formalizing this space to give these great relationships that mean so much to me a chance to breathe a little instead of being trapped in my head.
I’m curious about being alive. I wonder about things. I wonder why a lot. I ask questions. Sometimes aloud, without realizing it at Pick’nSave and people look at me like, “what’s up with that guy?”
So it’s no wonder I eventually got involved in shared governance on my unit and eventually landed a spot on the nursing research councils. Here I started to take a deeper dive into how nurses can be bedside activists. I mean, really, what good is research if it’s just text on a database?
So I challenged myself to learn more about science and that would be the undertaking I find myself in right now, and really loving it. My great friend in research, Karen, also geeks out on EBP like me so we thought we would explore reaching out in this way just for the fun of it. Plus, now that we work for different organizations, it gives us a great opportunity to rekindle our collective love of improving our understanding and application of research at the bedside and sharing it with whoever will listen along the way.
I’m excited to see where this site goes, but sitting here writing, it feels great already…
Evidence-Spaced-Thinking 