Educators, do you recommend allnurses.com to your students?

Great place to find out what the "hot topics" are for nursing and get various opinions. I use this site for the same reasons I recommend to the students: to keep abreast of current issues & attitudes.

Only to some students. The reality is, I have been a member since before I was teaching, and I write a lot of stuff on here about myself. Since I started teaching, I know that some of my students have posted on here. I have figured out who they are , but I'd feel very weird if I saw them posting something negative about me or my colleagues. I have recently kept my posts more vague in nature, just in case someone does spot me . i'd rather not censor what I have to say, so I keep my identity more vague.

On occasion, I've referred some students who have had issues that I could not help them with, trying to get into a program/switching careers after a nursing failure, specific specialties/grad schools or out of state/immigration issues.

I mentor a lot of midwifery students who come into our NicU, for six weeks or so. For the ones who shined, who are so into learning, then I will recommend this site. For the others, well, I dont.

Today was my first day teaching, I'm teaching LPN school. I recommended it to my students, so we should have about 20 more people join lol.

I always recommend this site to my students. I do not make it a requirement that they join but I include it on my course Syllabus as a valuable resource.

I have gotten great feedback from those who do use the site. Reading posts in the student nurses forum makes them realize that our school is and school policy is very much like all the other schools. It encourages them that their situation is not unique and that they can vent to people who really do understand what they are going through.

Another aspect they really appreciate is the fact that they can ask so many people for assistance for such a variety of topics.

I get a lot of ideas off of the student forums to help my students in clinical and class.

I always recommend this site to my students. I do not make it a requirement that they join but I include it on my course Syllabus as a valuable resource..

Thanks puggymae! We appreciate it!

I recomend to some, but only with a caution. Take everything with a grain of salt, do you own homework and research, realize that people who post online are a subset of nursing and may not reflect the reality of the environment you are in and prob a few other things depending on the student.

I have been known to use some of the postings as an example of life in a nurses station.

Brian, this is such a valuable informative and even funny-tension releaving source for students to experienced nurses. We can all learn from each other (I love the article competition and will try to put my 2 cents in!) and just obtain feedback, support and even a needed 'and slapping. I appreciate that it's international, and we get a glimpse of nursing outside the US.

I hadn't thought about putting it on the bibliography or syllabus, but that's a great idea. Most of those I teach are the "Millenial" generation; that is they live on their tech devices- so this is the way they are accustomed to connecting with others in their field.

AN has a site for just about anything that exists in nursing. Thank you for hosting such a huge community!

Jess,

Thanks so much for sharing your testimonial! I really appreciate your comments, it means a lot to me to hear that educators think so highly of allnurses