by Elizabeth | Feb 20, 2015 | Blog, Nursing career
Here’s a note I recently received from a new graduate asking about how to deal with stress in her role as a RN on a busy medicine unit… Dear Elizabeth, I graduated from nursing school about eight months ago. I was fortunate to find a job very quickly and...
by Elizabeth | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Burnout
So many types of nurses struggle with a common challenge: how to relieve stress. Being that a nursing career is often filled with long hours, overtime shifts and sleepless nights as we lie awake wondering if we were able to get it all done… it’s no wonder...
by Elizabeth | Feb 16, 2015 | Blog, Nursing career
“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.” -unknown Just as snowflakes and people, no two nurses are exactly the same. There are so many...
by Elizabeth | Feb 13, 2015 | Blog, Nursing career
I grew up in a beautiful neighborhood. We had a lovely four bedroom home with lots of outside space. My parents both had good jobs and made quite a bit of money. We never went hungry; we always had clothes on our backs; we didn’t have to struggle for money....
by Elizabeth | Feb 11, 2015 | Blog, Leadership
According to Wikipedia, the definition of transformational leadership is ‘where the leader is charged with identifying the needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change in tandem with committed members of the...