We all have times when we can’t think of anything to blog about. Inspiration is not always easy to come by. If it was we’d all go around, well, inspired all the time, with our heads in the clouds. So don’t let the cobwebs settle on your blog. Here are 20 things for a nurse blogger to be inspired by:

1. Your strengths as a nurse. Everyone writes about their specialty area. But what about your strengths within your specialty? What are you the “go to” person for? Starting IVs? Dealing with difficult family members? Precepting new nurses? Liver transplants patients?
2. Why did you choose nursing? The age old question. Sure it’s been discussed a million times but it is an interesting question. What drove you to enter this exciting/stressful/meaningful/exhasting profession?
3. Advice for fellow nurses. Everyone loves to give advice, lets face it. As a nurse blogger, you have the ultimate soapbox!
4. Special tips and tricks you use at work. How do you get techs to do more for you? How can you get assessments done quicker? Do you have any suggestions for sucessful time management?
5. Advice for nursing students. Nursing school is a tough time and one of the hardest things about it is when you start your clinicals and you have to deal with very busy, sometimes not so friendly nurses. What would you tell a student nurse to help him/her deal with this?
6. Profile a famous nurse or person in the medical field. Everyone has someone that inspires them. Who inspires you?
7. Profile a not so famous nurse. Sometimes it’s your co-workers that inspire you. If so, write about it.
8. Nursing shortage. Does it exist? What are the implications? How has it affected you personally?
9. Nursing Inspiration. How do you stay inspired? Do you have a nursing “mantra?”
10. Nursing Burnout. Have you experienced this? Do you have any strategies for dealing with it?
11. If you could try another nursing specialty what would it be?
12. How does being a nurse affect your family?
13. Diseases in the news (MRSA, bird flu, HIV, TB). The news media is always sensationalizing one disease or another. What’s your take on it?
14. Current events that involve health care. Recently, a famous actor’s twin infants were admitted to the ICU due to a med error involving heparin. What’s your take on this?
15. Critique medical TV shows from a nurse’s perspective (House, Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, ER, etc.)
16. Write a book review.
17. Would you recommend nursing as a second career? Would you recommend a career in nursing to your children? Why or why not?
18. What’s the one thing that can be done to improve health care in this country?
19. What do you think about the Doctorate of Nursing program? Is it a good thing for nursing education? What do you think of nursing education in general? What’s the benefit of having a BSN vs. an ADN?
20. And finally, when all else fails, I give you permission to write about something that has absolutely nothing to do with nursing. Every once in awhile, it’s nice to hear a personal story from a fellow blogger.

So did any of these ideas actually inspire a post? If so let me know and I will link back to it from this page.