A Nurse, A Wall, And A Bloody Forehead

As a nurse career coach, I hear a lot of stories, and some of those stories revolve around the way that nursing has sucked the life out of a nurse ' s ambition and self-confidence. And what I see is that nurses who feel demoralized and beaten down sometimes stay in jobs that are killing them because they just don ' t see another way. A Wall and a Nurse ' s Bloody ForeheadWhen a nurse is hitting a wall, she or he needs to move away from the wall and find a door or window to slip through. But what I see over and over again is nurses banging their heads against the same wall over and over until their proverbial foreheads are bloodied and raw. They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. While such dogged, blind persistence can occasionally yield the desired outcome, I ' m not a big fan of bloody foreheads and head injuries. You see, folks, it ' s not just about not banging your head against that wall -- sometimes you don ' t even recognize that the wall is there. But once you acknowledge its presence, it ' s all about what you do when you ' re desperate for change. Seeing The WallThe first order of business is, of course, seeing the wall. Do you know you ' re trapped, or are you too caught up in misery, anxiety, ennui, or utter boredom that the wall is virtually invisible to you? If you can ' t see the wall, the moment you wake up and notice it ' s there can be breathtaking. Yo...
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