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You Know You’re a Nurse When…
Sure, this blog is often about nurse burnout and provides strategies to help nurses enjoy their nursing careers. But once in awhile you gotta let loose and enjoy yourself. Practice work-life balance in action! So that's what we're going to do with this post...
Is it Stress or Burnout?
Is it Stress or Burnout? For today's post, I am covering another topic in our nurse burnout series. In the article, The Way We Think About Nurse Burnout is Broken, one of the challenging issues stated was: We call burnout something else. If you hear someone say, “I...
Feeling Overwhelmed as a New Graduate Nurse? Tips from Experienced Nurses to Help!
Feeling Overwhelmed as a New Graduate Nurse? Tips from Experienced Nurses to Help! Being a new graduate nurse is not easy. Heck, being "new" in any nursing role... even if you have years of nursing experience... can be tough. A few weeks ago, I posed this question on...
Nurses Bring Meditation Practice to Your 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,...
4 Bad Habits that Drive Resilient Nurses Crazy
Four Bad Habits that Drive Resilient Nurses Crazy Resilient nurses. What does that mean? I am sure as soon as you hear the term, an image -or person- comes to mind. To me, resilience means going through a difficult situation and being able to bounce back from it......
Putting a Band-Aid on Nurse Burnout?
Putting a Band-Aid on Nurse Burnout? Despite what some nursing leaders will tell you, nurse burnout is real. In fact, all we have to do is take the word "nurse" out of the statement and call it what it is... burnout. This next post is another in the series on nursing...
How to Deal with Negativity at the Nurses Station
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...
Nurses, What Keeps You Resilient in Your Nursing Career?
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 that:...
Problem Solving Approach Not Working? Try Appreciative Inquiry in Nursing
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...
Nurses and The Weird Things We Do!
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 and every...
Expecting Others to Fix Your Burnout Problems?
Nurse Burnout Problems Got nurse burnout? And if you did or do, who do you expect to fix it? Your employer? Your boss? Sometimes when we have something happening in our life that we do not enjoy, we look all over the place for help. I can speak to this because I have...
Do Nurses Ask for Help?
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 desperately in need of help) Why...
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