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Non-Clinical Nursing Jobs
Non-Clinical Nursing Jobs: What's Possible for Nurses? Nursing is a tough profession. While most nurses LOVE the care that they are able to provide for their patients, many nurses are searching for that non-clinical nursing job. And I don't blame them! However, before...
Nurse Business Ideas
Nurse Business Ideas: A Way to Leave the Bedside? As nurses we tend to be creative people. And what better way to use that creativity than to come up with nurse business ideas! In fact, I would imagine that this part of starting an online business is easy. The ideas...
Content Creation for the Nurse Entrepreneur
Content Creation for the Nurse Entrepreneur Today's world is noisy. And I'm not just talking about heavily populated demographics. The entrepreneur nurse must produce GREAT content if they want to stand out from the crowd. If you're new to the online space, when we...
Nurse Entrepreneur Ideas
Nurse Entrepreneur Ideas As a nurse who has had several nurse entrepreneur ideas herself, I get approached often with the question: "Elizabeth, what exactly is a nurse entrepreneur? How did you get started on this path?" I LOVE this question because the answer is...
What Are Good Samaritan Laws?
Imagine you’re on a rural road at night. It’s dark, and far from most signs of human habitation. Suddenly, you see something on the side of the road: A man is unconscious, and obviously injured. You’re the only one nearby. What do you do? What should you do? Do you...
How to Start a Nurse Coaching Business
How to Start a Nurse Coaching Business For the last several weeks, we've discussed all things health coaching. Today's post is the final of five and will cover how to start a nurse coaching business. Why? Well, there are so many great reasons that we have covered...
Health Coach Salary: What Can Nurse Coaches Make?
Health Coach Salary: What Kind of Money Can a Nurse Make? The million dollar question: what is a health coach salary like? Let's be honest. We all need to make money, right? So, how much can a nurse health coach make? The honest answer: it depends. The more honest...
How to Become a Certified Health Coach
An Important Question Nurses Ask: How to Become a Certified Health Coach? When I interview nurses on the Your Next Shift podcast, I ask them about professional habits and routines that they would attribute to their career successes. More often than not, the responses...
How to Become a Health Coach as a Nurse
The Demand is High: How to Become a Health Coach Today's healthcare climate- what a mess! There are many challenges that cost both the medical system and its consumers not only money, but their lives. Nurses -who are in the perfect position to help- start to think...
What is a Nurse Health Coach?
An Opportunity for Nurses: Nurse Health Coach As a nurse who has done a variety of different things in nursing, I get asked a lot: "Elizabeth, what exactly IS a nurse health coach?" I LOVE this question because the answer is simple and fun! A nurse health coach is...
Nurses Speak Out: Why I Chose Nursing
Why I Chose Nursing Well, let's be honest. The reason why I chose nursing? It chose me! I wrote about why I chose nursing in the introduction of my best-selling book, Nursing from Within. Here's part of what it said: ...I didn’t really want to be a nurse. In fact, I...
A Quick and Easy Way to Cope with Stress in Nursing
Looking to Cope with Stress in Nursing? Most nurses enter their careers with a heartfelt desire to provide care. And then- BAM! Reality hits and enter the world of professional nursing. New and experienced nurses alike struggle to cope with stress in nursing. This...
The Final Two Nursing Burnout Causes
The Final 2 Nursing Burnout Causes from Stop Nurse Burnout For the past two posts, we have been reviewing the 5 nursing burnout causes. You can access the other three causes by checking out these posts below: What Are the Causes of Nursing Burnout? Nurse Burnout...
Nurse Burnout Causes: Two More from Stop Nurse Burnout
Two More Nurse Burnout Causes from The Stop Nurse Burnout Book In last week's post, we highlighted the fact that there are five nurse burnout causes, sharing the first one with you. Feel free to check out this post (What Are the Causes of Nursing Burnout?) for the...
What Are the Causes of Nursing Burnout?
Causes of Nursing Burnout: What Are They? When I first started working with nurses, I thought the question of what are the causes of nursing burnout had a simple answer. I thought of it like a third grade math equation: Too much stress on the job and not enough...
Why Workarounds in Nursing Don’t Work!
Workarounds in Nursing Don't Work! If you are a nurse, you know exactly what I mean by nursing workarounds. But let's assume that maybe you have not yet heard the term and need a specific example. In the video below, I share an example related to getting a medication...
Fighting Nursing Student Burnout
Fighting Nursing Student Burnout The most important person you care for as a nurse is yourself. Those called to healthcare often have the drive to give, to empathize, and to care for others. Given all that, it’s easy to forget about self-care as you plunge into a...
What Are Some Positive and Negative Aspects of Nursing?
Positive and Negative Aspects of Nursing While there are both positive and negative aspects of nursing, I often share details on how to shift perspective to the positive on this blog. For today's post, I would like to present another angle. A few weeks back, I asked...
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda in Nursing
New Year. New Nurse. New You. Yup, it's that time of year again. Holiday seasons are upon us and just around the corner is the new year. The fresh start. A time to reflect on the past and set goals for the future. Don't let this next year continue on with the coulda,...
Nurses, Envision the Solution to Your Problems
Nurses, Envision the Solution to Your Problems As nurses, we have many opportunities to fix problems. In fact, situations arise on close to a daily basis where we as the nurse must go into problem solving mode. While this is wonderful and we as nurses take pride in...
Why Burnout in the Nursing Profession is A Priority
Burnout in the Nursing Profession Needs to be Priority Here it comes... the final post in the nursing burnout series. The topic today- how burnout is still not viewed as significant as it truly is. Why is that? Well, burnout in the nursing profession is still seen as...
Nurses, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
That Scary Moment As a new nurse entrepreneur, (before I even knew what that term was, actually) I attended a workshop with a business coach. At the time, I had no idea of even what I might learn at this workshop or who I might meet. (Yes, I like to do things...
5 Things I Will Always Be Grateful For In Nursing
A Normal Coping Mechanism Let's talk about fight or flight briefly. A normal reaction that is ingrained in all of us... As a way to continue the human species and be on the lookout for danger, our brains have evolved over time to overestimate threats, underestimate...
Evidence-Based Or Sacred Cow? Nursing Challenge Tackled
Evidence-Based Or Sacred Cow? As a nurse, you may have been challenged by a sacred cow. If you are not familiar with the term, a sacred cow may go something like this: "Well, I see what you are saying, but this is the way we do it around here..." It is those things...
Insanity of Nursing Burnout: How to Break the Cycle
Nursing Burnout: A Relationship to the Definition of Insanity? By now, many of us have heard of Einstein's insanity quote. Albert Einstein said "The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result." Is nursing burnout any...
What to Do When You Get Yelled At (in Nursing)
What to Do When You Get Yelled At Sure, the title of this post includes "in nursing", however this content could really go for anyone. Because no one likes to get yelled at, right? I mean... as a child, I absolutely cowered in fear when I was yelled at by my father....
Heroic Stories that Showcase How A Nurse is Never “Off”
Heroic Stories that Showcase How A Nurse is Never "Off" While I do not condone working 24 hours a day, I do realize that as a nurse we may never be fully "off". There are certain types of service professionals (e.g. law enforcement, fire and rescue, and healthcare...
How to Turn Your Nurse Burnout Into Resilience With Ease
Turn Nurse Burnout Into Resilience With Ease Last week, we talked about how nurse burnout can actually be good for the profession of nursing. That's right. Burnout is not all bad! So we talked about the "what" and the "why" in terms of reasons that burnout can be good...
Nurse Burnout is Good for You
Nurse Burnout is Good for You That's right. I said that. Burnout is good for you. In the post below, I will share with you how and why. First, I want to remind nurses reading that this is another in the nurse burnout blog post series. In the earlier part of this year,...
Nursing: Is it a Career, A Calling, or Some Mixture of Both?
Nursing: Is it a Career, A Calling, or Some Mixture of Both? A few months ago, I posed a question on my social media outlets. [Tweet ""If you had to do it all over again, would you choose nursing as your career?""] I can tell you- the responses were ALL over the...
Nurses, It’s Time to Work Hard… Play Harder!
Nurses, It's Time to Work Hard... Play Harder! A well-rounded nurse knows that nursing is not all work and no play. That's right. A nurse who thrives in his or her nursing career knows a secret. What's that. you might wonder... Well, this week's video will give you:...
Apply Nursing from Within™ to Your Nursing Career
Apply Nursing from Within™ to Your Nursing Career I received an email from a nurse, asking me for help. Now, I will share parts of the note below, but due to its length and the fact that I aim to protect the identify of anyone reaching out to me for help... I won't...
Nurse Burnout Statistics: Can We Measure and Evaluate It?
Nurse Burnout Statistics: Can We Measure and Evaluate It? I rarely, if ever, do this... but in this blog post case I must. If we are going to discuss nurse burnout statistics, then I need to share from both personal and professional experience. In addition to my...
5 Reasons Nurses Fail at Building Resilience in Nursing
Five Reasons Nurses Fail at Building Resilience in Nursing Janet thought she was a resilient nurse. For the past 28 years of her nursing career, she went to work, took the best care of her patients, and read everything she could to learn more about nursing practice....
Causes of Nurse Burnout: Doing it All in Nursing
Causes of Nurse Burnout: Doing it All in Nursing What causes nurse burnout? Looking to advance your nursing career? Want to avoid nurse burnout? Open to doing what you love as a nurse? This next video will speak to the profession of nursing and the fact that...
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 today....
What’s the Definition of Nurse Burnout?
What's the Definition of Nurse Burnout? For today's post, I am covering another topic in our nurse burnout series. We're going to uncover the correct definition of nurse burnout In the article, The Way We Think About Nurse Burnout is Broken, one of the challenging...
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. We need to stop putting a band-aid on nurse...
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 Find Solutions for Burnout?
Nursing Solutions for Burnout Got nurse burnout? And if you did or do, who do you expect to fix it? Your employer? Your boss? What solutions for burnout have you come up with up to this point? Sometimes when we have something happening in our life that we do not...
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...
Before You Quit Nursing- Ask Yourself 6 Crucial Questions
Thinking About Quitting Nursing? Did you know that one of the key words that brings people to my blog is "quit nursing"? I was actually shocked when I found this out. After the initial surprise wore off, I found myself feeling something else. Sad. For me, it is very...
As a Nurse, What Achievement Are You Most Proud Of?
Nursing Achievements Nursing can be a very challenging profession to work in. I often hear from nurses who are contemplating or on the verge of quitting nursing altogether. Gosh, with the staffing ratios, workplace violence, nurse burnout, and so much more... it...
Stress, Stigma, and Burnout in Nursing
As a nurse, have you experienced the stress and stigma related to burnout in nursing? A few months ago, I wrote a blog post entitled “The Way We Think About Nurse Burnout is Broken”. I went on to list ten ways that burnout is approached in a broken way. One of the...
Help! I Am Sick of My Nursing Career…
Sick of your nursing career? We may all find ourselves in a career rut from time-to-time. Maybe we are bored at our current job. Or we are frustrated with our work load so we dread going into work. What can we do? Today's video will teach you about nursing career...
Top 5 Skills Every Nurse Should Develop Quickly
What are the top five skills that every nurse should develop? Nope! Not those. I imagine many of you reading automatically think about the clinical skills it takes to become a professional nurse. While clinical skills are important, they vary from specialty to...
The Elephant in the Room in Nursing: What’s Not Being Addressed
The Elephant in the Room in Nursing There is an elephant in the room in nursing and it is not being addressed. In fact, I asked nurses on social media, and it turns out- there is not just one elephant. There are several! A little over a month ago, I asked my social...
Why Don’t We Think (Or Talk) About Nurse Burnout?
Nurse burnout is not discussed. There, I said it. A bit of personal experience related to this- I asked my virtual assistant (VA) to perform a search. As a nurse blogger, I want to be sure that my blog is getting found and read by nurses and nursing students. So, I...
Nursing Goals: Steps to Healthy Nurse Success
A while back in the Your Next Shift Facebook community, a nurse shared her weekly goal. She said that when she started in on her next nursing schedule, she would begin to cut back on her hours at work. Good goal, but vague. And likely far off in time... I challenged...
5 Myths about Nursing
Nursing Myths Since the profession has basically been around since the beginning of time, there are many myths about nursing. Before we get into some of them- really fun myths, I might add- I had to look up the definition, for myself so that I could really understand...
The Alchemy of Self Care
Guest Post by Padma Dyvine One day a friend of mine used the word alchemy and I was catapulted into contemplating the topic and its reality in life today. The feelings and concepts of mystery and transformation tickled my senses, stimulated my imagination and...
5 Tools that will Save Every Nurse Time
When a nurse signs up for my e-zine, they get asked a quick question. “What is the number one thing getting in the way of your nursing career?” Nine out of ten people response: “No time.” Nurses have a ton to do at work. Whether they practice in the hospital setting...
The Way We Think About Nurse Burnout is Broken
Nurse Burnout is Broken: The Way We Think About It is Broken. There are several things wrong with the way we think about nurse burnout. This is troubling for several reasons. If we do not have a clear understanding about burnout, then we cannot help nurses who may be...
Made a Mistake as a Nurse? Now What!?!
As nurses, we all make mistakes. Though we try our very best not to... it is inevitable that a mistake may happen. Rather than do what we may want to do (which is run under a rock and hide), here are three tips to help you with a nursing mistake: Let’s hear from you!...
A Skill Every Nurse Should Have… And Why
Nursing students are taught certain skills during clinical rotations. New graduate nurses, upon entering orientation, enter nurse residency programs and preceptorships that teach them even more nursing skills. As nurses, we get a ton- I would dare to say- an...
Proven Strategies that Improve Resiliency
Around the world, nurses are challenged with burnout. In response to nursing burnout, organizations that seek to find and implement strategies that improve resiliency, have found that this is not always so easy to do. Nurse burnout is a difficult issue, mainly because...
3 Things to Never Do with a Burned Out Nurse
Don't Do This with a Burned Out Nurse. Nurse burnout. A tricky subject. Why? Sometimes the very nurse experiencing the burnout does not know that they are! Historically, burnout has not been discussed in nursing schools or during nursing orientation. I imagine that we...
5 Habits Every Nurse Should Develop
Nurses pick up things on the job. There are habits that nurses learn from other nurses that can be good. And then there are habits nurses develop that are not so good. While we as nurses do learn from our educators, during our clinical rotations and in nursing...
Nursing Silos: How to Break Down Departmental Walls
Often in nursing, especially in hospital nursing, nurses find themselves in departmental silos. Patient care is affected when one nursing specialty fails to communicate properly with another. In today's video blog, I share several strategies to help break down the...
Pray with Patients? An Opportunity to Practice Nursing from Within
Prayer with a Patient? About a month ago, I posted a question to nurses and nursing students on social media. It raised a lot of interesting and diverse discussion. The question was: [Tweet ""How do you feel when a patient asks you to pray with them? Is it comfortable...
New Year. New You. Setting & Reaching Nursing Goals.
New Year. New You. Happy New Year to everyone here reading! Gosh, another year is about to start. This can mean so many things for nurses and nursing students. A chance to reflect. The first thing I like to do when starting out with something new- is to look at how...
3 Extreme Burnout Recovery Strategies You Have to Read to Believe
Burnout Recovery Strategies Did you know that burnout has many layers? It is about much more than physical exhaustion or illness. Sure, when experiencing nurse burnout, you may feel tired. You may even get sick. But did you know that it is about so much more than...
RE: Invention
Guest Post by Debra James I don't know about you, but I had this nursing thing all worked out. I'd put in my 3 years med-surge, then move on to my love of geriatric Alzheimer's/dementia patients. I'd become the pre-eminent nursing expert for quality dementia care, I'd...
How to Keep Your Nurses Happy
Happy Nurses = Happy Patients. So, before I start off on the content of this post... let me point out that this post is for any nurse. Sure, the title may make it sound like I am speaking only to nurse managers, nursing supervisors, or nurses in leadership positions....
3 Reasons Why Nurses Should Embrace Burnout
Embrace Burnout? What are you nuts? You must be thinking, "Hey, Elizabeth. I thought that burnout was something that was bad for us! I thought that it was burning out was something we wanted to avoid. What the heck are you talking about?" It is true. Nurse burnout can...
How to Prevent Burnout in Nursing
Nurse Burnout is Real
So I am sure that many of you reading are quite aware of something called burnout. Well, duh. And then, even further, you probably are raising your hand saying, “Yes, I have had burnout”.
The more I study nurse burnout and the causes of it… the more I realize it is actually larger than we think.
It is about more than physical illness or experiencing stress. In fact, physical ailments may actually be burnout talking to you, asking you to wake up!
Looking for Happiness in Your Life? Look Through a New Lens
Guest Post by Carmen Buck. I lived with a negative, grumpy, smelly being in my home for years. Yes, that’s right, I had a pre-teen son. It was early summer of 1999 in beautiful southern New Mexico. Everything I offered was ‘boring’ unless it involved a baseball. ...
The 4 Reasons Most Nurses Fail
Nurses Are Rock Stars That’s right I said it. And you probably already think it. Nurses do GREAT work. All of the time. In every way. So why the title of this post? Even nurses who begin a nursing career with the best intentions experience nurse burnout. They get...
Want to Enjoy Nursing? Start Your Day Like This
A Day in the Life of a Nurse I recently wrote a blog post highlighting just how different the start of a nursing shift can be. In that article, I pointed out how mindset can impact the flow of your work day. Focus on the negatives and you get more of them. Or pay...
The Negativity You Should be Focusing On
Negativity in Nursing Last month I published an article about negativity in nursing. I articulated how there is a lot of social media posts that shed negative light on the nursing profession. And how I was fed up with it! Well, I must admit there is something good...
The Only Nurse Burnout Prevention Tool That Actually Works
Nurse Burnout Prevention is Tricky Burnout affects some of the very best nurses, taking them away from the nursing profession. And what’s interesting to me is that I do not think people really understand the true nature of burnout or have nurse burnout prevention...
Do Nurses really have their s*** together?
Guest Post by Taylor Nix, BSN, RN As nurses and healthcare providers we get so consumed in caring for others that we often forget or lack the time to care for ourselves. Trust me, I know because I have been guilty of this to the point where I began to question my own...
How to Decide When to Quit Nursing
Nursing is Tough Work Nursing is one of the most difficult professions. Inpatient emergency, oncology, and critical care nurses have been studied and are found to be at high risk for compassion fatigue and nurse burnout (Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2016)....
Why Negativity Continues to Exist in Nursing
Negativity in Nursing OK. I am about to give up! On Instagram, I follow all of these nursing brands. And I have about had it. Now, I know it is meant to be nursing humor and all, but come on. Haven't we seen enough photo shopped images of people complaining about...
Top Three Mistakes that Stress Nurses Out
Guest Post by Lisbeth Overton I’d like to share three oversights that I have noticed and that people share with me in my coaching practice that contribute to chronic stress and less than stellar health. I will also share simple ways to address each issue starting...
Can a Nurse Refuse to Care for a Patient?
A Nurse's Experience Recently I received an email from a nurse about an unsettling phenomenon- nurses refusing to care for patients. Here is some of that email, with specific details omitted to preserve confidentiality. When I was a nurse intern, I worked with a group...
5 Burnout Prevention Tools Nurses Can’t Live Without
Nurses Are Unique... And So Are Their Burnout Prevention Tools! Nurses are a rare breed. While stress and chronic overwhelm rages through the country, nurse burnout effects nursing staff in horrific ways. This ultimately creates the need for burnout prevention tactics...
What They Didn’t Teach Us in Nursing School
Think back to nursing school. (No matter how far that was for you, smile.) What course was missing from the nursing curriculum? What class did you wish that the nursing faculty taught? When you think about it now, having worked as a nurse, what makes you say: “Gosh, I...
The Best Way to Avoiding Burnout Early
The Best Way to Avoiding Burnout Early Does nursing school teach nursing students about avoiding burnout? In theory maybe, however in actual real world experience… most likely not. Nurse burnout as a topic may be introduced in academic settings- it actually may be...
Why Incivility Still Exists in Nursing
Nurses experience a wide range of workplace environments. From supportive to violent, a nurse may never know what to expect in their nursing career. How can the most compassionate people on the planet (nurses), treat each other in such an uncivil way? Colleagues of...
5 Steps for Optimizing New Graduate Nurse Performance
Whether you graduate right out of college or find yourself in a second (or third) career- being a new graduate nurse can be tough. You made it through nursing school, yet now you are thrown into the ‘real world’ of healthcare… which can be scary stuff! As experienced...
4 Qualities You Really Need in a Nurse
Of course nurses need to be caring, kind, and compassionate. A nurse also needs to be a good listener, problem solver, and educator. Yet so often when we hear the term 'nurse', we think of a middle-aged woman, working in a hospital, in some type of scrub uniform....
Unhappy Nurses = Miserable Patients
We've all heard the saying: [Tweet "Happy Nurses Make Happy Patients"] It makes total sense that this is true. Nurses, especially in the hospital setting, are with the patient around-the-clock. When the patient wakes up, guess who they see? The nurse. When they are...
How to Have a Life Outside of Nursing
I don't know about you, but nursing is a busy career. Working 12 hour (OK, let's be honest... who gets out in twelve hours anymore?) shifts, taking calls at home, covering short staffing... I mean the list goes on and on (and on). In fact, a few months ago I asked a...
Why Choose Nursing as a Career?
As potential nursing students take time this summer to decide whether or not a nursing career is for them... I thought that we'd utilize this week's blog space to help them out. While this blog could be aimed specifically at young men and women who are considering the...
My Head is Spinning with All this Change! How to Cope with Healthcare Shifts
As a nurse, how do you handle change? I'm sure you've looked around the workplace once or twice in your life and realized that things are way different than they were ten years, five years, three years, or even six months ago! The healthcare environment is one place...
Yikes! I’m Overwhelmed at Work… Tips to Increase Resilience in Nurses
A nurse at any stage of their career can experience feelings of overwhelm in nursing. Maybe it's a nursing student who has the pressure of final exams, papers, and clinicals all at the same time. Or a new graduate nurse who's just trying to learn the ins and outs of a...
Nursing Career Tip: Stay Flexible for Success
A nurse emailed me with a dilemma. She shared that she went into the field of nursing to be able to use holistic modalities and integrative therapies for patient healing. While she lived in a progressive geographic area who readily accepts complementary therapies, the...
Leadership Development: Tips for New Nurse Leaders
So you've found yourself in a leadership role. Maybe you're the most senior nurse on your unit and the director suggested you become nurse manager. Or, even informally, you're the most experienced nurse working the night shift, so they've put you in the charge nurse...
My Nursing Unit is Unsafe! What Does a Nurse Do?
June is National Patient Safety Month and nurses are a captive audience when it comes to safety measures in the workplace. When a nurse feels that there nursing unit is unsafe, they can be compelled to DO something about it. It is crucial that we set up systems and...
Nasty Nurse Vice? How to Break Bad Habits in Nursing
So you're looking to break a bad habit. Even nurses have vices! Maybe you're notoriously late for shift report. Or you're constantly glancing up to see what's on the patient's TV. How about this one? Biting your nails in the workplace? Eww, gross! Nurses are human...
Will Adding More Staff Reduce Nursing Stress?
Nurses experience the stress of their nursing careers in a variety of ways. Some nurses find they take work home with them, unable to think about anything else after their shift is over. Others note their emotions are all over the place: one day happy, the next sad,...
The Foundation of Nursing Practice: How to Have Time with Patients
I ask a quick question when a nurse subscribes to my newsletter, which is: "What is the one thing that gets in the way of you enjoying your nursing career?" Now the responses come in all over the place... but the number one thing I hear is this: "I have NO TIME for my...
Happy Nurse’s Week!
Nurse's Week is upon us. First off, I want to wish each and every nursing student, new to experienced nurse, and even retired nurses a very warm and wonderful Nurse's Week to you. You ought to be extremely proud to be in this profession of nursing. I know I sure am!...
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