Nursing 2.0: should We As Educators be Crafting the Next Generation of Nursing Practice? (Emerging Technologies Center) (Essay‪)‬

THE NEW YEAR IS A TIME FOR TRADITIONS. Thus, President-elect Barack Obama is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year and bailout is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. It is also time for reflection. I have been reflecting lately on technology and the new words being introduced into our vocabulary. * Along with verbs like google ant wii, we have a growing phenomenon of attaching 2.0 to a variety of nouns. For example, the Chronicle of Higher Education now has Campus 2.0 and College 2.0 as sections and uses such titles as Public Intellectual 2.0. You can google lots of nouns, like Research 2.0, Faculty 2.0, Education 2.0, and locate many resources. In the health care arena, I found Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, Patient 2.0, and Patient Empowerment 2.0. But the only Nursing 2.0 resources I found were my own columns for Nursing Education Perspectives. So, to kick off the new year I propose that we explore this phenomenon and ask: Do we need to start a dialogue in nursing about crafting the next generation of nursing practice, Nursing 2.0? **********