by Elizabeth | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Health Tips, Nursing career |
Nurses Bring Meditation Practice to Your Nursing Career If you are feeling the following, then you might enjoy this short meditation practice: Distracted at work with all of the bells, alarms, and whistles that beg for your attention Tired because you are up at night,...
by Elizabeth | Jun 26, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career |
How to Deal with Negativity at the Nurses Station The nurses station. A breeding ground, metaphorically speaking, for negative nurses. From personal experience… When I worked as an inpatient psych nurse, I would literally LEAVE the nurses station. I would...
by Elizabeth | Jun 19, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career, Resilience |
Nurses, What Keeps You Resilient in Your Nursing Career? We asked. You answered. We listened. Resilience in nursing is crucial. With the stresses facing today’s nurse, many nurses are wondering if they should give up and quite nursing altogether. My answer to...
by Elizabeth | Jun 5, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career |
Are you and your nursing colleagues butting your heads up against the wall when it comes to making change? Do you attend meeting after meeting, but feel when you leave that nothing was accomplished? Does the group have ideas about changes, but get stuck talking about...
by Elizabeth | May 30, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career |
Nurses Do Weird Things I imagine anyone who knows you, knows that as a nurse, you do some weird things. I mean, let’s be honest. How many of you love to go home and just gross your family out with a story from the workplace? Don’t be shy! I know that each...
by Elizabeth | May 15, 2017 | Blog, Burnout, Nursing career |
Do nurses ask for help? In my experience, not so much. What tends to happen is the following… Charge Nurse: “Jane, do you need anything? How are you doing?” Jane: “Fine. Nope, I am all good.” (While Jane may be silently drowning and...
