Competitions

Nurse Uncut’s Spring Contest: Win 2 x $100 Coles/Myer Gift Cards!

Friday, August 27th, 2010 by NU_admin

Spring is just around the corner! To celebrate Nurse Uncut thought it was about time we ran another contest!

To find out more about our ‘Celebrate Spring’ contest read on….

spring contest

HOW YOU CAN WIN:

There are two ways of winning this contest!

First: Leave us a comment on this contest post and tell us in 20 words or less what you look forward to in spring time? Is it the longer sunshine hours? The end of winter chill? The winning comment will be selected via a random draw!

Second: Go to Nurse Uncut’s Facebook Page and leave a comment on our Note on what you look forward to in spring time, the comment with the most number of ‘likes’ win!

How will this work on Facebook?

1. Share the Facebook Page’s Note to your friends and post it on your wall:

Facebook Share

2. Ask them to ‘like’ your comment as shown below (Note: They have to ‘like’ Nurse Uncut’s Facebook Page before they can ‘like’ your comment!)

Facebook like comment

3. Presto, they’re done and you get the ‘like’ vote!

WHO CAN JOIN:

This contest is open to all nurses and student nurses working/studying in Australia.

THE PRIZES:

We have 2 x $100 gift cards from Coles or Myers to give away. The winners can shop at the Coles range of stores: Coles ,Kmart, Target, Bi- Lowe, Liqourland or Myer Stores.

1 winner each for our Facebook Page contest and for our contest here on Nurse Uncut’s blog. If you enter both then you have 2 chances of winning!

DEADLINE:

This contest runs from today, 27th August to 17 September, Friday at 11.59pm NSW time. The winner will be announced shortly after.

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Image source: sxc.hu

This post was proudly brought to you by the NSW Nurses’ Association.

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Winners of Join Nurse Uncut Contest

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 by NU_admin

We have had an awesome response to our recent contest to celebrate Nurse Uncut’s first birthday – Join Nurse Uncut and Win a Holiday! Thank you everyone!

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Welcome to all of our new members, both on the website, Twitter and Facebook!

Now, to the important stuff…….who won??!

The lucky winner of our first grand prize – a Holiday Package at The Sebel Harbourside Kiama was:

Grand Prize Winner: NearlyLeft

Congratulations, we know you and your companion will have an amazing time at The Sebel!

But that’s not all……yes, we also have 8 consolation prizes to give away, perfume for him and her.

Winners of the women’s fragrance, Arpege by Lanvin (worth $165):arpege-perfume

  • Bliss
  • scox06
  • gilli.d
  • meltea

Winners of the men’s fragrance – Dunhill (worth $135):

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  • margo138
  • oneilla
  • mamamarg

Congratulations to all of you and thank you for joining Nurse Uncut, it is great to have you on board.

Here’s to another successful year of growing our community, continuing to connect nurses with nurses and to provide as many resources for nurses as we can!

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Nurse Uncut Australia turns 1

Monday, July 12th, 2010 by NU_Editor

Has it been that long? Is Nurse Uncut Australia truly 1 year old? You’d probably have read our latest contest to celebrate Nurse Uncut celebrating its first year!

Nurse Uncut Australia

It seems like yesterday when we have been busy organising the set-up and build of this website along with the training of our first group of Nurse Uncut bloggers.

And now…we’re a year old! How time flies when you’re having fun!

So, what have we achieved in the last year? Well, apart from connecting nurses to each other 24/7 via the web (which is one of our key goals!), we achieved quite a bit in the last year and I’d like to highlight them to you:

  • we now have around 1,500 nurse members
  • we trained 2 groups of  nurses to become bloggers!
  • Nurse Uncut was listed in the top 50 essential Nursing Web Resources
  • We were also listed in the top 50 Travel Nursing Blogs
  • On the techy geeky side, we have made the move to a better web platform! I know the move has had its teething problems but we assure you that this platform that we are now using will be much more user-friendly and we’d be able to provide you with more useful stuff and functionality than you could hopefully wish for :-)
  • Oh and yeah, we’ve also scored our first advertising sponsor for the site which we will be introducing soon

We are hoping to grow Nurse Uncut in the next year and also,

  • continue to be a bridge to connect nurses in Australia and those who want to work as nurses in Australia
  • grow our Nurse Uncut Facebook Page and Twitter account
  • provide nurses with resources they need not only for their professional lives, development but also in their personal life

To grow Nurse Uncut, we need your help though – the more you spread the word to other Nurses on how Nurse Uncut can help them feel ‘connected’ and be connected with other Nurses, the more we can grow in the right direction!

What else can we do for you? We would like to hear your thoughts on what topics you’d like to us to cover at Nurse Uncut.

Mystery prizes await those who provide suggestions to us.

You can suggest by leaving a comment on this article. Don’t worry if it doesn’t show up after you press ’submit’ – all comments are moderated (to ensure they’re not spam) and only gets published once they’re approved by one of the Nurse Uncut Editors

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CONTEST: Join Nurse Uncut and win a Holiday!

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 by NU_Editor

As we mentioned in our latest newsletter, Nurse Uncut Australia is turning a year old in July and what better way to celebrate it than by giving away a holiday package to a lucky Aussie nurse and a companion! Not only that, we’re also giving away 4 colognes for men and 4 perfumes for women!
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Winner of our Best Nursing Tip Contest

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 by NU_Editor

Apologies for the delay but I am pleased to let you know the winner of our latest contest at Nurse Uncut: Best Nursing Tip!

We have received great tips from our nurse members which I hope you’ll get the chance to read HERE.

Without further ado, I am pleased to announce that our lucky winner of a $150 book voucher from Elsevier is:

Emiline! She wrote:

best nursing tip winner

Again, thanks to everyone who participated. We’ll be announcing our new contests soon. Watch this space!

We also have a new Community Page on Facebook, if you haven’t joined, please do so at “I support Nurses.”

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CONTEST: Refer-a-Friend to Nurse Uncut, Win a Holiday!

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 by NU_Editor

UPDATE: This competition is open until 31 March 2010. You have time to refer your friends and colleagues to Nurse Uncut!

Well, hello and welcome to a brand new competition here at Nurse Uncut! This time, we’re encouraging you all to help to spread the word about Nurse Uncut – and asking your friends, colleagues, family, and everyone else you might know to become a NU member. For every person you refer to NU, you get a point towards our fabulous prizes. Read on to find out more…

Read the rest of this entry »

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CONTEST: Imagine A World Without Nurses

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 by NU_Editor

UPDATE: This competition is open until 31 March 2010. You still have time! :-)

Nurse Uncut is looking for a creative depiction of a world without nurses. Get your creative thinking caps on and show us by way of a photo, artwork, collage, illustration or scrapbook layout of what a world without nurses would look like.

All of us without exception have experienced illness, pregnancy or a health scare. You could say that nothing has happened to you but think about someone we love dearly had to go to a hospital to be treated by doctors. Someone we love had to go to a nursing home. Someone we love had to give birth.

When confined in the hospital for an illness, accident, pregnancy or placed in a nursing home, it is not the doctors who looks after our every need. The nurses are the one who look after the patients. The nurses are the ones who look after mothers giving birth. The nurses are the ones who look after us. The nurses are the one who look after our loved ones.

Some of us are born to look after people. Some us have always wanted to be nurses. It’s a noble profession. It’s a profession that I believe is underestimated by those who don’t understand what it takes to care for others.

Now, imagine a world without nurses. Imagine a world with no one to look after us when we’re ill, or have an accident, or have given birth or when we’re too old to look after ourselves.

Imagine a world where your chosen profession is not available. Imagine a world without nurses.

What you can win:

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The lucky winner will win a Gourmet Escape Package for 4 adults (Two 1-bedroom suite or One 2-bedroom suite) at Amarna Resort. The package includes 2 nights’ accommodation, a 3-course In Suite Chef Dining Experience and 4 half-hour massages taken in the comfort of your suite.

Package value: $2,100. The prize may not be converted to cash.

Judging:

  1. Criteria for judging include: concept and originality, appeal and execution.
  2. Submissions will be judged by the community and the Nurse Uncut Judging Panel composed of representatives from the site and NSWNA.
  3. The total positive comments (on Flickr) from the community for each submission will form 50% of the votes.
  4. The other 50% will come from representatives of Nurse Uncut and NSWNA.

Submitting Entries:

  1. You can submit your entry at Nurse Uncut’s Flickr Pool. Please tag your submission with #worldwithoutnurses
  2. To be able to submit to Nurse Uncut’s Flickr Pool, you must have a Flickr account. Opening an account on Flickr is easy. If you have a Yahoo email address, you can use your email address to open an account. To sign-up on Flickr, visit their website: Flickr.
  3. If for some reason you can’t open an account on Flickr or can’t upload onto our Flickr pool, you can also submit your entries to admin@nurseuncut.com.au.

What you can submit:

  1. We will accept any visual representation of your entry by way of photos, artwork, collage, illustration or scrapbook layout. The file type you submit must be saved either as a .jpg, non-animated GIFs, .png
  2. Your entry must be captured in a single page.
  3. Your entry must be accompanied with a title.
  4. Journalling (your own words, quotes or poems) and craft embellishments are acceptable. Be as creative as you want to be!
  5. The use of photo editing tools such as Photoshop or Illustrator are acceptable.
  6. Submissions depicting nudity, racism will not be accepted.
  7. If you are using images of a person(s) in your entry, please ensure that you have the legal right and permission to use them.
  8. Only one entry per person please. No submissions from organisations will be accepted. We will only accept entries from individuals.

Who can join:

  1. The contest will run from today, 11 September till 16 October, Friday. The contest will close at 11.59pm (Sydney time) of 16 October, Friday.
  2. The contest is open to any resident in Australia aged 15 years and over.
  3. The winner will be announced on 27 October, Tuesday.
  4. If you win the contest, travel to avail of the package at Amarna Resort will not be paid for by Nurse Uncut or our sponsor.

Note: When you submit your entry, you also allow Nurse Uncut to use your submission for any promotional activities that we may have. If and when we use your photos, we will credit you as the source.

Good luck!

Credit: Big thanks to the TV Ad by California Nurses Association for providing us the inspiration to run this contest.

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Have you joined in Nurse Uncut’s Launch Giveaway Yet?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 by NU_Editor

Have you joined Nurse Uncut’s first-ever giveaway yet? If not, you should we have heaps to give away to the lucky winners!

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You and 3 of your family or friends can watch the preview of the hit musical, Mamma Mia and stay at a posh apartment!

If not that, you can win either an iPod Classic or a Nano!

Good eh?

Go to the contest post – Win $1500 worth of cool prizes!

Check out how the many chances that you can win these fabulous giveaways!

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GIVEAWAY: Let’s Celebrate! Nurse Uncut is Live!

Monday, July 13th, 2009 by NU_Editor

Welcome to Nurse Uncut! We are so happy that you can join us!

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So, what is Nurse Uncut I hear you ask?

Nurse Uncut was created to provide a platform for nurses to share their stories of challenge and strength, experience and opinion on topics that are close to their heart.

This site was also created for the wider community to share their own experiences working with the nurses in their area.

This site will provide people like yourself an opportunity to show your support to your nurses who work tirelessly to look after you and your family.

So in celebration of Nurse Uncut’s site launch, we are giving away prizes worth $1500!

WHAT YOU CAN WIN:

1st prize nurse uncut giveaway(1)

(To book tickets to Mamma Mia, contact 136 100)

First Prize*4 tickets to a preview performance of Mamma Mia in October in the Lyric Theatre plus a 2-night stay for 4 people in a 2-bedroom apartment at the York Apartments. This includes parking for 2 cars plus breakfast. Package is valid until December 2009.

ipod classic

Second Prize** – 1 iPod Classic with 120 Gb worth around $339.

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Third Prize**1 iPod Nano with 16 Gb worth around $279

The small print:

*1st Prize can only be won by NSW (New South Wales, Australia) residents (unless you can fly and redeem the voucher before its expiry).

**2nd and 3rd prizes are open to all Australian residents.

HOW YOU CAN JOIN

1. The giveaway will run from now (July 14th) till 31st July, Friday . The giveaway will close at 11.59pm, Sydney time of the 31st.

2. You can enter to be in for the draw by doing either or ALL of these actions:

  • Sign-up to become a Nurse Uncut member at the Nurse Uncut Sign-Up page. All members who register from today till end of July 2009 gets in the draw.
  • Tell us what topics you’d like us to write about in the Nurse Uncut blog by leaving a comment on this contest post.
  • Follow us on Twitter at @nurseuncut and let us know that you have done so by leaving a comment on this post and writing “I have followed. My username is @________.” (insert your Twitter username).
  • Join us on Facebook and let us know you have done so by leaving a comment on this post and writing “I have joined Nurse Uncut’s Facebook Page! My name is ______.” (insert the name you used in Facebook).
  • Blog or tell others about the giveaway on other sites like your personal blog or a forum, egroup, etc. You must post a link to the site where you posted or shared about the giveaway by leaving a comment on this contest entry.
  • Tweet this contest entry and use the hash tag #nurseuncut to let us know you’ve tweeted. Come back on this contest post and let us know that you’ve tweeted.

3. The giveaways are only valid for Australian residents with the exception of the First Prize where only NSW residents can win it (unless of course you can fly to Sydney and use your prize before the prize voucher expires!).

4. One entry per action (see #2). The more actions you do, the more chances of winning the prizes!

5. Winners will be selected through a random draw and will be announced on 3 August, Monday.

Good luck!

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