2010

1. Nursing School the Accelerated Route: Follow the blog of a student enrolled in an accelerated BSN program (January).
2. The Student Nurse: Read about the adventures of a student nurse who is embarking on a second career (January).
3. Travelista, RN: This blogger is pursuing both an ASN/RN and MS in Management (January).
4. Just Call Me Nurse…Eventually: A wife and mother decides to return to nursing school (February).
5. Nurse’s Watch: Registered nurse with a background in pediatrics, labor and delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn nursing (February).
6. Nursebound: A former journalist goes back to school for nursing, where “It’ll only hurt for 16 months” (February).
7. The Medical RNinja: A third-year medical student and RN blogs about nursing, medicine and considerations on becoming a doctor (February).
8. Mom, Wife, Student, Nurse, Ahhh! This full time executive assistant is starting an evening CNA course and plans to become a nurse (March).
9. Nursing & EDS! A 24-year-old with EDS has one more year of nursing school to go. This blog is dedicated to recording the bumps, bruises, and dislocations along the way (March).
10. The Nerdy Nurse: A wife and mother and self-proclaimed “nerdy nurse” writes about her experiences (March).
11. NurseXY: This nurse is starting a new grad critical care internship on the CVICU in a 1000 bed, Level I hospital in one of the largest metro areas in the country (April).
12. R (etired) N: This retired RN still focuses on health, especially for women (April).
13. GamecockNurse’s Brave New World: A male emergency room nurse uses this blog to work through the anger and tears to get to the smiles and laughs (May).
14. Happy Hospitalist: This blog is dedicated to bringing the latest information about hospitals, hospital jobs, hospital equipment and more to readers (May).
15. Madness: tales of an emergency room nurse: This blog is about the adventures of a veteran nurse in an inner city ER (June).
16. Frazzled_razzleRN: A wife and mother talks about her return to nursing school (September).
17. Tales of a School Zoned Nurse: A school nurse rigid in the frontlines of the war against lice, patching up playground boo-boos, begging parents to bring their child’s emergency medication to school, and helping the snacks in the teacher’s lounge mysteriously disappear (September).
18. The Doctor Stole My Stethoscope: Raquel is not Florence Nightingale from her own admission…but she is a nurse and mom who tries to do an above average job at both (September).
19. Sam the RN: Sam is an RN in a hospital located somewhere in the U.S. (October).
20. The Nursing Ethics Blog: Dr. Nancy Walton is an Associate Professor of Nursing in Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Ryerson University and Dr. Chris MacDonald is a philosopher by training who has written widely in the area of applied and professional ethics, including nursing ethics (October).

2009

21. New Nurse, In the Hood: Baby nurse in an emergency department surrounded by nursing homes (February).
22. Nurse & Lawyer: Elizabeth is an RN in a cardiac ICU. Amy is a law student. They are twins. They share interests in bioethics, regulation, progress, fairness, bicycles, and red wine (February).
23. Off the Charts: Blog by the American Journal of Nursing. Categories range from advocacy to writing and nursing (February).
24. The Man-Nurse Diaries: A blog by a 30-year-old male nurse who works in trauma ICU (February).
25. Debbie Without Borders: A wife, mother, nurse and Christian, this woman blogs her nursing experiences and how they fit in her daily life (March).
26. Suzanne Gordon: Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author/editor of 12 books. She focuses on patient advocacy in this blog (March).
27. LivingDeadNurse’s Psycho Ward: The best artwork on a nurse blog masthead, accompanied by ramblings from an ER nurse, mother, biker, movie-goer and avid reader (April).
28. STAT: This nurse is a “Trekkie and a dork” by her own profession, and works in the emergency room (April).
29. Taking the Scenic Drive: A pediatric ICU nurse in the Midwest is studying for the MCAT to apply to medical school (April).
30. Center to Champion Nursing in America: CCNA, the joint initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers features designed to be interesting and useful to nurses and other stakeholders.(May).
31. Diaper Changes are NOT my Job: A recent graduate nurse with a need for an outlet to “vent about the most ridiculous and absurd” blogs about a first job in pediatrics (May).
32. Abilene Rob: According to this male nurse, Dr. Ruth comes to him for advice. Enjoy humor and pathos in this nurse’s blog (June).
33. Mamatrauma: An ER nurse working in a county hospital relays her stories about her new job (June).
34. NP Odyssey: This is an RN’s journey to become a Nurse Practitioner and “creating new forms of stress” (July).
35. The Dog Ate My Care Plan… This blogger is chronicling a journey through nursing school — a “pilgrimage through endless studying, sleep deprivation, and the utter and total lack of a social life” (July).
36. What a Nurse!!! Jackie is a 20-something nurse who blogs about all the crazy things that happen to her — including some great epiphanies (July).
37. Who’s Life Is This, Anyways? This blogger writes about a balancing act between pre-nursing school, a husband and children, and the future (July).
38. Drawing on Experience: Will draws this comic-blog depicting his daily life when he began nursing school. Many comics are about nursing, some are about his pug, Goober (August).
39. Infusion Nurse Blog: A certified registered nurse in infusion (CRNI) and who holds an MBA writes this blog (August).
40. Initiative on the Future of Nursing Blog: The ultimate goal of the Initiative on the Future of Nursing is to improve how health care is delivered to better meet the needs of all patients (August).
41. RN-tertainment: A blogger writes a “positive reflection” about the first year as an emergency department RN (August).
42. Student Nurse Laura: Laura is venturing into student nurse territory after working as a technical editor for a large publishing company (August).
43. Life In The ER a Nurse’s Perspective: ER Nurse Blog: This nurse works at the busiest ER in the state and lives “in the middle of nowhere” (September).
44. Nurse Me: A trauma/critical care nurse who works at a Level I trauma center writes about her experiences (September).
45. Pee and Sympathy: True Stories from an RN: A registered nurse in New York City writes her memoirs (September).
46. This is the story of a girl: A 20-year-old nursing student undergoes lap band surgery on her way to becoming an RN (September).
47. Those Emergency Blues: An emergency department nurse is cynical and skeptical about the health and hospital system (September).
48. The Muse, RN: A blog by a wife, mother, RN, nurse educator, nursing leader, speaker and author (October).
49. Nurse J: A male nurse who works in critical care writes blog entries about his nursing experiences (November).
50. PinkyRN: This RN works in labor and delivery nursing, and has been taking a midwifery program at the graduate level (November).

1. CardioTrainer + Racing: Combines the free CardioTrainer with a racing application that will challenge you to beat your own best time. You’ll get a virtual race simulator, including a voice telling you just how far ahead or behind you are.
2. Fast Food Calorie Counter: Know exactly how many calories you’re consuming when you give into fast food. This app tracks and provides data for almost 9000 menu items from 72 fast food restaurants. Track calories, fat fiber, carbs and protein.
3. Endomondo Sports Tracker: This application integrates with Google maps and is designed for runners, walkers and cyclists. You can track your time, distance, speed and altitude as well as keep track of your workouts.
4. Calorie Counter by FatSecretThis calorie counter is simple to use. It can also figure out the recommended daily calorie intake you need based on your weight and fitness goals. It has a bar code scanner to make finding foods really easy.
5. AllSport GPS: Track your route, distance, time, speed and calories burned with this app. You can get maps, virtual races and even reports on your progress.
6. Beer Gut Fitness: Track the calories from your favorite beverage. It will tell you when you’re under your calorie limit for the day so that you can have a guilt free beer. It will also tell you when you’ve gone over your allowance and need to get some exercise!
7. Absolute Fitness: This is a great all in one tool. It tracks your calories and food intake, your exercise and lets you know how you’re doing toward meeting your fitness goals.
8. Backpacker GPS Trails: A great personal GPS navigation device for hikers. You can download maps, track your walks and find nearby trails.
9. Pointslist: Perfect for those on Weight Watchers, this app tracks the points you’ve eaten for the day from a list of over 2000 items.
10. Instant Heart Rate: Measures your heart rate using Android’s built in camera. You just put your finger over the camera for 10 seconds.
11. BMI Calculator: Calculate your Body Mass Index quickly and easily. Great for dieters.
12. Simple Weight Recorder: Keep track of your weight quickly and easily. Automatically calculates BMI, and the difference from your goal.
13. Yoga Poses: Great app for the yoga enthusiast on the go. Get a complete yoga workout wherever you go with the most popular yoga poses.
14. Nutrition Tips: Get tips on making your food work for you.
15. Vitamins and Minerals: Help improve your nutrition by learning which vitamins and minerals do what, as well as learning which foods contain the ones you’re looking for.
16. Best Diet Foods: Get lists of the foods you should be eating to maintain weight and stay healthy.
17. Droid Fit: Auto record workout logs for bodybuilders. Contains workout plans with hundreds of workouts.
18. Body Fat Calculator: Keep track of your percentage of body fat and your BMI quickly and easily.
19. Cancer Preventing Food: Learn to eat in a way that allows you to reduce your risk of cancer.
20. C25K: Use this application to help you follow the “Couch to 5k” plan. This app times your workout while you listen to your own music or podcasts. It plays an audio signal when you need to switch your pace.

You’re sure to be well on your way to meeting your health and fitness goals with these apps on your side. Many of the apps are free, so be sure to check them out. More and more apps for Android are developed every day; so be sure to stay in tune with all the applications that can help you stay fit and healthy for a lifetime.

Global Tobacco Control
Course ware provided by the John Hopkins BloomBerg School of Public Health and prepared by instructors Frances Stillman, Jonathan Samet and Heather Wipfli provides an introduction to global tobacco control. It highlights, the implication and ill effects of tobacco on health and economic burden of tobacco users worldwide.

Population Change and Public Health
The courseware prepared and provided by John Hopkins BloomBerg School of Public Health introduces the basic characteristics in population studies involving population, size, composition and distribution. Under the course impact of population and programs on population change it is analyzed for many countries.

Environmental Conflict and Social Change
This graduate-level courseware provided by MIT University studies the complex interrelationship between humans and natural environment at non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States. Apart from theoretical studies this courseware is provided with a good number of case studies.

Managing Coastal Environments
This course ware, moreover, is a case study of an estuary, where sea, land and sky meet.     Here process and results as emerged from the study of Blackwater estuary on the Essex coast are discussed. The study here can be used as an approach to learn about study of environments.

Course Ware in Different Disciplines
This particular courseware is provided with an objective to facilitate students with different number of course ware in range of discipline and courses.

BBC Language Courses
This course ware provided by the leading news agency BBC is for initial learning and proficiency in different foreign languages.  The prominent languages taught under this course ware are French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Chinese and others.

Japan Open Course Consortium
This is the address page to Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW) official site. It is consortium of Japanese Universities that are providing OCW in Japan.

Language of the Image
This courseware is provided with tips and lessons, how to produce an effective photography. This courseware would help you to learn about quality of light, juxtaposition, point of entry, mood and other related important aspects of photography.

Fundamentals of Business Analysis
This course ware is provided with the prospective of letting a student to understand fundamentals of business analysis. The course ware here is provided with need to understand and identify business needs and strategies. Here certificate program focuses on the skills needed to identify business requirement and develop appropriate business solutions.

IIM ( International Institute of Management)
IIM Open Courseware (OCW) is provided with objective to give free access to world’s leading management thought as scholars and consultants are contributing with their ideas at this place. Here, more than 100 courses in business management are provided.

1. Greig Wells
Based at Tampa, Florida, is a Social Media Expert, who help people to enrich money and cash into using there Social Networking contacts to become Home Based Recruiter in their spare time. Any person enrolled with profile on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin can work as a home based recruiter after getting tips from Greig Wells.

2. Careeralism
They are the sponsors of the Twitter Advice Project as one can get one of the best career advices to top career experts on Twitter there.

3. Shannon Shubert
Based at San Diego, California Shannon Shubert’s IM Group is an expert in social marketing platforms. They can help any one to start, state of the art successful marketing campaign with outstanding results. He provides social networks for marketing platforms for businesses, internet marketing, real estate, corporate business, music and anyone other who wishes to promote, build and lead other in business.

4. Lee Odden
CEO of TopRank Online Marketing Company is an industry leader in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services. He provides mix up of online expertise including search engine and social media marketing, blogging and online public relations.  He is one of the 25 online marketing experts as featured in the book, “Online Marketing Heroes”.

5. Diana Lewis
Located at Indiana, she is a Bio entrepreneur, investor, sales, marketing, social media, career advice and a resume service provider. Her website is http://www.resumebear.com/. Resume Bear looks into the various needs of the job seekers, employers, students and colleges and provide some of the best 21st century technological solution to the traditional job searches that are into the process.

6. Andy Robinson
He is a coaching expert who, personally, or on phone tell others about achieving success in their career. He till now has taught a great number of business leaders, practice leaders, team leaders and business owners.

7. Alexandra Levit
Based at Chicago, IL, she is a business workplace author and speaker with 4 published books and a WSJ column. She has written several books, including, popular business world survival guide, ‘They Don’t Teach Corporate in College’, ‘How’d You Score That Gig’ and Success for Hire. Her career advice is regularly featured at nationally syndicated Wall Street Journal and Monthly in the Huffington Post.

8. Alison Doyle
He is a job search and career expert and author. His counseling, wise words on About.com one can have on job listings, job search, social media, resume, letter and interview advice.

9. Alison Green
Based at Washington DC, she is an owner of a medium-sized successful business organization which provide consultancy on issues related to business management.   She provides counseling on all the important issues like appraisal, threat of being fired and chance for second interview.

10. Total Training
This is a Tutorial website for software training for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple and more for the professionals as executed by professionals.

The courses are also afforded a number of grants and scholarships from various institutions; therefore it may be quite easy for the student to engage in research work. This is because; the organization that sponsors them through their coursework may be very much in need of their expertise. With the organization working on the same terms as the student a creative synergy is formed. The student will also find that the remuneration offered on completion of their study is quite attractive. For the RN professionals there will not be need to have a degree before pursuing the masters course. This is because there are a number of institutions which offer an accelerated degree program with respect to your experience and the amount of expertise you have gained in your work. Most programs are offered on a part-time basis since most students are indulging in their professional assignments even as they proceed with their coursework. There are options for those who can manage a full-time study experience.

A few nursing degree programs offered online require a working internet connection.