Four Ways That Nurses Can Say Yes

In my work as a career coach for nurses and healthcare professionals, I hear a lot of stories; I also hear that nurses are frequently saying no in ways that may be negatively impacting their nursing careers. While we definitely want more nurses saying no to mandatory overtime, a lack of time for self-care while on duty, and the scourge of nurse-on-nurse bullying, there are certainly places for nurses to say yes more often. What do you say yes and no to on a regular basis?There are several things that nurses commonly tell me they don't want to do. Does this reflect your thinking, as well?Nurses say no to social media: Many nurses tend to say no to social media, especially LinkedIn. Nurses say things like, "I'm older, and I just don't feel good about social media; I value my privacy," or "I don't do social media."Valuing your privacy is laudable, but do nurses who refuse to use LinkedIn in order to move their career forward consider how their privacy is not valued by credit card corporations and the companies who share their address with other companies so that their mailbox can be filled with catalogs and solicitations?Every time you use the Internet, data about you is mined, gathered, stored, and shared; and every time you shop on Amazon, more is shared about you than anyone would ever be able to learn from your LinkedIn profile. This is a fact of life and you just can't escape it unless you take fairly extreme actions. There are certainly things you can do about it, but ther...
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