Did you get your FREE Ticket yet? The Countdown is On – Five Days Until the Masterclass. I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be speaking at the Reignite Your Passion in Healthcare Masterclass—a FREE virtual event happening March 28 through April 1! 🔗 Save your spot here: https://www.reignitehealthcarepassion.com 🌱 Join me and 20 expert speakers as we dive deep into practical strategies and insights that will help you: 💡 Reclaim your energy and recharge your passion for your healthcare career 💡 Tackle stress and overwhelm with actionable tools 💡 Create sustainable work-life balance that keeps you thriving both at work and home This Masterclass is an incredible opportunity to…
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Burnout Can Affect Anyone
Burnout can affect anyone. It’s not exclusively related to nursing and healthcare professions, although it is probably most associated with this industry. Being overwhelmed, overworked, underpaid, micromanaged, underappreciated, while feeling STUCK in the situation lead to symptoms of resentment, depression, sadness, and can quickly turn to full on BURNOUT! Our educational backgrounds prepared us with the hard skills and knowledge base to safely and effectively perform our jobs, but did not prepare us for coping with and overcoming the feelings and symptoms that lead us to want to quit and, in many cases, leave our professions completely. Not many things can be as disappointing. In recent years, self-care has become…
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Nurses Writing Patient Education Materials
Writing patient educational materials can be a great niche for nurses who love to write and a natural means to grow a freelance career as a nurse writer. The following article, Nutrition in Pregnancy, by Melissa Murphy RN, is a great example of solid patient education. Patient Education Patient education is a huge part of nursing. Education can begin with the physician or other practitioner, but the major portion of the education falls to the nurses. Be sure to go over the materials with the patient to ensure they understand. Patient education is best when it’s interactive and not just handing the patient something to read. Healthcare literacy is maximized…
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The Art of Delegating as a New Nurse
I absolutely love training new grad nurses. Their excitement and fresh look at the profession transports me back to fifteen-plus years ago when I first started. I work midnight’s so I have the pleasure of fine-tuning all the information that the day shift preceptors taught. Things I like to focus on are the importance of teamwork as well as the art of delegating as a new nurse. As a night nurse in the hospital, I have fewer resources and there are fewer staff members. Many times, there will be one to two patient care assistants to 15-25 patients. We all rely on our aids, but it is important early on…
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Nurses Need to Be the Change!
I recently had the privilege to attend a Zoom session hosted by Lorie A. Brown RM, MN, JD of Empowered Nurses. The guest speaker was RaDonda Vaught, the former Tennessee nurse who was convicted in 2022 of criminally negligent homicide after injecting the patient with the wrong medication. This was after the Tennessee BON cleared her in 2020 and told her they “had bigger fish to fry.” How and why that changed two years later needs your attention! You can watch the replay of the Zoom session. I encourage all nurses to watch the replay and to share it with colleagues and co-workers. Learn how Nurses Need to Be the…