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If you scrolled on any social platform over the last week or two, you may have seen a trend emerging on: “5 things worth the money”. People are sharing their 5 things they find worth the investment for a variety of areas in life.
I decided to offer my 5 things worth the investment focused on work and life technology needs. I am an Apple user and there are several products and services that I depend on each day.
Below are my top 5 things worth the investment: Apple Edition
(ps… this is not an ad, just me sharing my preferences)
1.MacBook Pro (over Air):
The Air is lighter and that is an advantage. However, I often feel limited in what I can accomplish with the Air in terms of connecting to other devices. I prefer the Pro. The Pro has more ports to connect devices such as display monitors, charging cables, headphones and more.
2. iCloud Drive:
Sync your files to iCloud and pay for the extra storage. Keep everything in one location that is accessible from any Apple device. Nothing should be kept on your hard drive that is not also backed up somewhere else. The Cloud allows for greater flexibility than an external hard drive. (However, both are valuable if you want a 3rd back up).
3. Apple Care:
Apple Care is similar to insurance but for your tech needs. You likely have a deductible for each item that needs assistance with some things covered at no cost. A check in at the Genius Bar and evaluation will tell you what you need. In the last few months, I have needed Apple Care for both my MacBook Pro and one of my iPhones. I recently learned that you can bundle several items for a condensed price each month.
4. Air Tags:
I love these little discs! How many times have you traveled and wondered:
or
or
Well, now I have an Air Tag in my car, attached to my keychain and also in the car. When I need to, I can go to “Find My” on my iPhone and search for the item (or device). These are well worth the expense.
(I would love to see these also applied to hospital equipment when nurses are looking for pumps, poles, wheelchairs, tubes for the tube system and more).
5. iPhone: Choose your preferred model
I am a double iPhone user with a 13 Pro Max and a 17 Pro Max. However, I have had many of the iPhones over the years. I do not buy a new one each year but do upgrade after a few years as the software ages out and the camera usually gets better.
There are now multiple models and different sizes on the iPhone. The integration with the apps and my MacBook Pro, iCloud Drive, Find My, Air Tags and more make it all an integrated system.
There are a few other Apple products I depend on each day, but these are my top 5! (There are also a couple I have but never really adopted however those items are much fewer in number).
Sincerely,
~ Dr. Tiffany Kelley PhD MBA RN NI-BC FNAP FAAN
August 19, 2018 |
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August 19, 2018 |
Tonight I spoke to a group of graduate nursing students at Northeastern University about how to look at daily problems as opportunities to form impactful solutions.
Too often we just accept that ‘this is just the way that it is’ and keep battling the challenges that really don’t make sense when you have a moment to stop and think about them.
So what do you do? Well let’s think about the linen cart.
Tonight I asked the group how many had experienced a situation where there was never enough linen on the cart to change the bed or bathe the patient or get a new onesie or johnny for the patient. The vast majority raised their hands.
So why is it that we all experience this but yet it remains an issue? I think part of it is that we aren’t speaking up to ask why and help to solve the problem. I think we also haven’t necessarily been trained to recognize these issues as solvable problems. Instead, we view them as individual workarounds. Yet, it wastes valuable time that could be spent caring for the patient instead of running after linen on another unit. There is no reason why this needs to continue.
The same is true with many different workarounds that nurses, health care professionals, patients and families face each day in the health care delivery process. Tonight I encouraged the group to think about what bothers them or affects their ability to provide the best care and see how it could be solved.
If we don’t start to take on some of these issues within our profession, we will continue to workaround them. We have the ability to make change, we simply need to begin and/or continue to take action.
Post originally appeared on LinkedIn on November 7th, 2017
August 19, 2018 |
A nice recap of the HealthTech Venture Network Female Entrepreneurship Conference on October 7th in Seaport Boston.
“To hear the other women’s stories and to hear how similar, not necessarily the specifics are, but just the accounts of the day-to-day… I felt like I was in the right place. And there are so many times you feel like you’re not in the right place. So that was really rewarding for me.” – Tiffany Kelley of Nightingale Apps
August 19, 2018 |
A wonderful article. I learn something every time I read it. I’m guest lecturing next week at Northeastern and am giving to the students to read in advance of the class.
Post originally appeared on Dr. Tiffany Kelley RN on October 30th, 2017
August 19, 2018 |
Meet Dr. Shanina Knighton:
The Entrepreneur in Patient Hand Hygiene
Describe your initial interest in patient hand hygiene?
As a student nurse during my clinical rotations I would often hear about the importance of healthcare worker hand hygiene, but with flu outbreaks such as Swine and H1N1 being an issue at the time I wondered why patients did not practice hand hygiene. I asked my clinical instructor who said, “Our hands being clean matters more than patients.” I disagreed and wanted to theoretically understand how a population that comes to hospital settings because of illness could not be a risk to contaminating others.
What was the problem that you saw which was not being addressed?
Throughout my years as a nursing student and now as a nurse, I repeatedly observed patients’ deficient hand hygiene practices. I would provide them with resources which they could not and would not use because of being sick, weak, bedbound or forgetful. I would watch them struggle to use the wall dispensers, sinks, hand sanitizer bottles and wipes.
As a nurse, I knew the burden and frustration of not being able to assist patients with hand hygiene every time they blew their nose, used their urinals, touched their wounds, or simply just wanted to clean their hands. Without many studies to support my phenomena, I created a patient-smart hand sanitation dispenser that affixes to the patient’s bedrail, reminds the patient when and how to clean their hands and advocates for the patient by telling others coming near to clean their hands. I remember pitching my product in front of a group of investors for an innovation startup fund and being rejected by a guy with no nursing background that said, “You seem nice…but only healthcare workers cause infections.”
What was a turning point for you in your efforts to support patients with hand hygiene?
My expertise and years of experience was overshadowed by someone that never practiced as a clinician. That day changed my life. I said, “If entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, healthcare leaders whom have never practiced heavily influence products and services used by patients and nurses WITHOUT nurses, something is wrong.” Furthermore, I noticed that there was not much research or policies out there to support my claim that patients carry pathogens on their hands and have poor hand hygiene practice.
How did your entrepreneurial journey begin?
I remember walking into Frances Payne Bolton School of nursing and saying, “I am an entrepreneur and infection control leader and I want to study patient hand hygiene because our patients need usable products.” I will never forget the words of Dr. Jaclene Zauszniewski, “Well study it then, let me tell you about out PhD Program.” Entrepreneurship launched my nursing career in research and research enhances the depth of innovation, collaboration and impact that I am and will be as an entrepreneur and researcher.
Dr. Kelley has 25 years of nursing and healthcare experience. She spent the last 21 years working in the field of nursing informatics. Read more
