AbstractAimThe aim of this study was to explore the work‐life narratives of nurses through a thematic analysis of the nursing accounts they post in their publicly accessible, anonymous blogs.BackgroundMany nurses participate on social media. Blogs have been advocated as a self‐reflective tool in nursing practice, yet as far as the authors are aware, no previous studies have explored nurses’ individual blogs for their potential to reveal nurses’ perceptions of nursing work.DesignThe research design was qualitative description.MethodsBetween May–August 2015, Internet search engines were used to discover lists of nursing blogs recommended by organizations representing nurses’ interests. Recommended blogs were purposively sampled. Four anonymous blogs written by nurses from different nursing specialties met the sampling criteria. All 520 of their entries from 2014 were read and copied into NVivo 10, where an inductive coding process was followed.FindingsThree major themes arose in these nurses’ online discussions of their work lives: they truly care about and value their nursing work, but they are feeling stressed and burnt out and they are using their anonymous blogs to share factors
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