Last week, I travelled to Arizona and attended the remarkable Magnet Nursing Conference — 6000 attendees, 5000 of them RNs, and just under 2000 of those were practicing ‘bedside nurses’. The conference was not everything I had hoped it to be. I did not strike up a lot of great conversations and I did not get a single opportunity to demo PasswordRN. The attendees for this particular conference tend to travel in groups, so at meals and between sessions they mostly get back together to trade notes and compare plans. Not a lot of loners. And when they were alone, standing in line or just decompressing on a chair, they tended to be on a cell phone practicing the three Ts: talking, texting, and twittering.
So the good news is that the nurses are really attached to their phones. And like to buy accessories for them — I saw cell phone covers in every color and with all sorts of decorations. (I also saw handbags and shoes in a variety of colors and styles such as I had never seen before. I clearly do not get out often enough.) The bad news for casual networking is that the phones allow them to stay inside their own bubbles more.
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