by Elizabeth | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, Burnout
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...
by Elizabeth | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
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...
by Elizabeth | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Burnout
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...
by Elizabeth | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
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...
by Elizabeth | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
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...
by Elizabeth | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Nursing career
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...
