Yep, there's an app for everything and now there's a nursing app for helping you survive your shift!  This is a nursing app that aims to help stave off burnout and enhance your wellbeing.  Athol Hann has created this by considering what he calls, the "touch points" for nurses and midwives that create stress.  It aims to help with the key hot spots for nurses: unpredictable schedules, poor lifestyle habits, pay errors, difficulty unwinding after work and disconnection from our teams.  Fundamentally, Athol wants this nursing app to help us focus on self-care.  One of my most favourite quotes is delivered by Athol in this interview beautifully, when he talks about self-care: "Self care is about your giving the best of you, not what's left of you"

Athol Hann is the founder of Fwards as well as a Clinical Emergency Nurse.  From a dairy farm in country Victoria, he found a calling to help and learn more about people. Starting off his nursing career at Royal Perth Hospital, Athol has had the opportunity to work in a diverse array of settings across the country. Getting through the otherside of burnout, Athol found a deep desire to help others avoid the emotional turmoil of going through burnout. This has led to the creation of the nursing app fwards and The Fwards Thinking Nurse Facebook group. The nursing app and facebook group work alongside each other to support nurses to manage the demands of shift work and track how shift work affects their health and well-being.