We have been told that we live in an information age where we can find knowledge with little effort, yet this is actually not true. Books, e-books, journals, e-journals, leaflets, websites and a host of other media formats mean that there is simply too much information for any one person to ever hope to assimilate in the nursing field alone. Couple that with pharmacology, physiology, products and everything else a nurse needs to have insight or knowledge about and it may not seem surprising that we sometimes seem to feel buried in information.

This is what led me to the idea of the Medi-Files; a simple to use collection of notes on the common topics that nurses need to know about for their practice.

Of course, when it first started, it literally was just a way for me to condense down my lecture notes into bullet point sentences that I could then file. Somewhere down the line, however, the Medi-Files started to get around to a few of my fellow nursing students. I had given out some pages to friends to help them revise for exams or research an assignment and copies started to circulate from there. These people then asked me questions about what I had noted down and if there were any more on other topics. It was armed with ideas gleaned from these conversations that led me into devoting more time to building up my lecture notes from the skeletal elements of topics into a more comprehensive set of remarks and explanations.

The Medi-Files were born.

*NOTE - Due to some major editorial changes, only my two most recent pieces are currently included in the Medi-Files folder... To see any of the other, older files, you will have to e-mail me here and I will re-post them ASAP*

Regards

FM