Value Yourself Nurses!

Rethinking Resilience

LESLY A. KELLY, PhD, RN

et al.

Resilience plays an important role in preventing and mitigating burnout, which has resulted in the promotion of resilience to nurses in organizations, unintentionally sending the message that nurses must carry the responsibility of overcoming adversity in their work environment. In their role, nurses can be confronted with adversity through both their professional practice and their work environment. Because nurses care for people in their most vulnerable moments, they are exposed to patients and families facing debilitating illnesses, catastrophic injuries, and impending death. They support people through extreme emotional times of unbounded joy, turbulent uncertainty, and unimaginable pain, fear, and loss. The goal of this article is to comprehensively describe the differences between personal resilience and resilience needed in the work environment, including how nurse leaders can approach resilience-building strategies within their organization.

The Most Important Thing

About Being A Nurse

EMILY MAZURAK

Emily, the creator of the Fill Up Your Cup Project, is now helping other nurses reignite their spark and their love of nursing by helping them pour into their own cups before helping everyone else around them so they can live a life they love on and off their shift.

What a real nurse looks like

- We need to stop defining “real nurses” as those who work in the ED/ICU

- We need to stop defining our lives around the kind of nursing we do - I know when I decided to leave the PICU I felt lost, literally lost my identity as a nurse, and was immediately worried about what my old colleagues would think

- In nursing school I had a professor say “medicine is about treating the disease; nursing is about treating the human response to the disease”

The most important thing about being a nurse is NOT WHAT YOU THINK!⠀

The Three Secrets of

Resilient People

The Power of

Vulnerability

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Fill Up Your Cup, Nurses!

There just CANNOT be too many ways to describe self-care for nurses, since we tend to be so bad at doing self-care. I have had Education and Coaching experts, gurus of meditation, breathwork, nurses of all types, ages, and backgrounds on the show to discuss this. What I have been WANTING to do is talk to relatively new nurses and dig into what works to welcome them into the career/profession of nursing; what helps when they recognize burnout brewing in their souls; and what makes them want to stay? Emily Mazurak came to my attention as exactly the right person with whom to talk about these subjects. Not only has she experienced all that I mentioned, but she came up with her own prescription to alleviate the problem as well as a willingness to share her learnings with other nurses through her “Fill Up Your Cup Project.” We had a delightful conversation on this topic and opened hope in me that we CAN retain our new nurses in the future. If you missed it check out the fascinating and REAL look at a burning issue in nursing, by listening to the Podcast:

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OutGROW the BULLY!

October 19th, 2020, @10 AM Pacific Time

on VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel

This is a topic deeply personal and simultaneously National (not to mention International). Communication is something we all do from prenatal to our last breaths on this earth. Conflict is a given. If we are alive, we absolutely will face conflict. As near as I can tell, there have ALWAYS been bullies. Why is it that we simply don’t seem to get better at communicating with these people in bullying situations? That is SUCH a good question, I decided to ask an expert on the subject: Judith Carmody, Published Author of Co-Bully No More, Unwrap the Gift of You and co-author of additional books on this subject! Judy is an advocate of Bullying Prevention and developing Life Skills Best Self- Safe Self. Join us on Monday, October 19^th as we get into the mud around learning to Back Down Bullies.

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