Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nursing

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[edit] Setup

I think the idea of a nursing wikiproject is a good idea. These normally have a mission, list of aims, resources, members etc. see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide and it needs to be proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject/List of proposed projects. Has this project gone through this without me noticing?— Rod talk 19:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

For the number of nurses in the world, there seems to be not too much interest. However, the only way to gauge the interest is to get started. The initial creation of a portal was intended to build interest in nursing as a Wikipedia topic. -THB 20:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree & wiling to help where I can. It might be useful to contact all those listed at Category:Wikipedian nurses as a starting point.— Rod talk 20:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Box

Another idea to get started is creating a userbox for users to display on user pages. Any nurse that happens to hit on someone's page and sees the user box might just be interested enough to join. I'm not sure if anyone here already knows how, but I can figure it out if no one else knows or can do it.

[edit] WP:MEDMOS needs YOU!

The Manual of Style (Medicine-related articles) is entering a critical stage: I'm informing people to visit the page, make corrections where possible, and then state there support or disagreements on the talk page, so we can see if there is consensus to turn this proposed guideline into a consensus-supported guideline.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTM

Nurse has now been the "Collaboration of the Month" for a few weeks - but nobody has suggested a diffrerent page for next month - should we leave it the same for November or does anyone have any suggestions for a different page as our COTM?— Rod talk 19:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Icon

I think that we need an icon other than the (very nice) portrait of Florence Nightingale, one that better represents modern nursing as a profession. -THB 18:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal: Inviting editors to join this WikiProject

There doesn't seem to be much activity of late in the Nursing wikiproject. I've recently seen an ineresting idea on a couple of other wikiprojects which enables a standardised message to be posted on the talk page of anyone editing a relevant page. Whenever anyone edits a page related to Munich, Template:WP Munich Invitation is posted to their user talk page informing them of the existence of the WikiProject & this approach has just been adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol with the template Template:WP Bristol invite.

I've made a version of that template for our purposes, which is in User:Rodw/Sandbox at the moment, but can be moved to Template:WP Nursing invite, that can be posted on the talk page of anyone that edits a Nursing-related page. You would either be able to use {{WP Nursing invite}} for the generic version, or you could use, for example, {{WP Nursing invite|International Nurses Day}} to include the line "Thank you for editing the article International Nurses Day" What does everyone else think?— Rod talk 21:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Great idea, and whatever article you want as COTM for January is fine by me. -THB 22:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of interest?

Nurses are a varied bunch of people. I have been a nurse since 1986 and I am constantly amazed by the disparate nature of the people in this profession. Still less than 15% of the profession are men and its anyone's guess as to why but it no doubt affects the group as a whole and how it is viewed. I was recently invited to join the project and I am please to do this but it is a daunting task which will require time and patience from all. I have edited and tweaked a few articles so far and I look forward to doing more. I also look forward to more discussion and suggestions on how we will proceed. Canticle 11:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Men as nurses. Me too. When NANDA included "Therapeutic Touch," nurses lost more credibility. Nursing Diagnosis is a vague concept to begin with. I can't support any profession that adds a "diagnoses" so silly. Thus, my lack of interest. Sorry girls. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.10.49 (talk) 19:10, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

"Me too" again. I was punched by a patient yesterday, pretty hard, hurt my "gun hand" and left a big, aching bruise. I've just been over the "nursing shortage" wikipage and feel it would be very appropriate to address nursing workplace violence and the overall "tolerance" of the violence. Only recently has it become a felony to attack a health-care worker, but there is still a gray area regarding fault, prosecution, and customer service. The old man that hit me was out of his gourd, probably renal/bun elevation. Today, he started out with "Do I owe anybody an apology today?" and was clear as a bell, seeking my acceptance. I have been programmed to accept the assaults of my patients, and over the years have witnessed managements position in such matters. They take the side of the patient or the family.

I digress, but attempt to point out the futility of calling nursing as a "profession" when you are chronically understaffed, subjected to daily abuse by your patients, families, and co-workers, and have very little time to solve the problems. You're DEAD at the end of the day. Thanks for listening Canticle. I remain a phantom without a handle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.10.49 (talk) 09:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Some missing topics

I wonder if any professionals could help me with my list of missing topics related to medicine? - Skysmith 12:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:MEDMOS

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) is a proposed guideline discussed and developed over recent months. Please visit the talk page to indicate whether you support or oppose Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) becoming a guideline. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment project?

Hi - I keep running into nursing related articles (like South African Democratic Nurses' Union) while working at WP:UNION, and I was wondering if the editors here were interested in establishing an assessment department. If you're not familiar with the idea, it's run out of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects, and rates articles both for this project, and for the Version team. We set up the Organized labour assessment department a bit ago, and found that it has the added benefit of raising awareness about the project itself.

If you're interested, I would be able to set up the framework of the department for you (based on the Org lab model), although it would require people here to fill in the actual rating requirements. Let me know if you're interested. Cheers.--Bookandcoffee 23:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I would be interested to work with you on this matter. To date, for this matter, I have:
  • Created assessment page for this wikiproject.
  • Created categories for the class/importance types.
  • Created the WPNURSE template.Josh 11:37, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Wow. Looks like you've got things pretty much covered. I added the stats box to the assessment page, it's a red-link right now, but should change with the first bot run. (Unless I gaffed something!)--Bookandcoffee 23:00, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Seems to be working.--Bookandcoffee 19:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Great! Thanks for your help. Josh 20:42, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

  • 6 September - expires 11 September
    • Nursing research stastitics (PROD by User:Escape Orbit; this is more suited for inclusion in Wikibooks than Wikipedia.) --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 14:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Schoolnurse1.jpg

Image:Schoolnurse1.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 17:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greenspun illustration project: requests now open

Dear Wikimedians,

This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).

The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests

If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.

The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.

thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 13:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)

[edit] Wikimedia Sister Projects

There is a lot of work to do in Wikipedia, but also sitster projects Wikibooks and Wikiversity are sorely lacking in nursing representation

Wkc3 (talk) 06:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)