by Elizabeth | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career
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...
by Elizabeth | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog, Leadership, Nursing career
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...
by Elizabeth | Jan 9, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career, Resilience
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...
by Elizabeth | Jan 3, 2017 | Blog, Nursing career
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...
by Elizabeth | Dec 27, 2016 | Blog, Burnout
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...
by Elizabeth | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog, Leadership, Nursing career
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...
