16/08/2026
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"๐ฟ๐ช๐ง๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐ข๐โฆโ
This is one phrase I hear so often during clinical postings....
โDuring my timeโฆโ
During my time, we didn't have Google.
During my time, we memorised everything.
During my time, students were tougher.
During my time, we didn't have all these technologies helping us.
And honestly, sometimes it gets exhausting.
But lately, I've been thinking about it differently.
Yes, nursing students today have access to things previous generations didn't have. We have smartphones, digital textbooks, online resources, medical apps and even AI tools that can help us learn.
But having access to a tool doesn't automatically make someone lazy.
The real question is:
What are you using the technology for?
Are you using it to avoid thinking, or are you using it to think better?
Because there is a difference.
I deeply respect nurses who trained before us. They learned under very different conditions, and there is so much wisdom in their experience.
But we are training for a different healthcare system.
You cannot keep training 21st century nurses with 19th century tools and expect 21st century results.
Technology is not here to replace clinical judgement, critical thinking or hands-on skills, it is here to support them. And a nurse who completely refuses to embrace useful digital tools may eventually find themselves struggling to keep up with the profession.
The answer isn't to throw away everything the older generation taught us.
And it isn't to blindly embrace every new technology either.
We need both.
The wisdom of experience and the tools of the present.
Because nursing is not supposed to remain where it was.
It is supposed to keep moving.
Maybe instead of always asking, โHow did we do it during our time?โ
We should also ask:
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๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐?โ
ยฉ๏ธ Ezeh Jacinta