Nurse Innovators and Trailblazers: An Embarrassment of Riches

I recently spoke with a nurse career coaching client who ' s thoughtfully searching for what she should do next with her nursing career in order to more fully reach her potential as a healthcare professional. As I ' ve previously discussed on both this blog andmy podcast, the sky ' s the limit in terms of what nurses are capable of, even though nursing schools (and by extension many of your nursing colleagues) will lead you to believe that acute care is the only place where " real " nurses choose to make their professional nest.Photo by Riccardo Annandale on UnsplashSeeing the PossibilitiesWhen I speak with confused yet earnest nurses about the vision of what they want or what their personal mission may be, they often verbalize feeling stuck in the old paradigm that dictates that the only worthwhile work for a nurse to do exists within the hospital walls.This narrow vision of nurses ' potential stymies creativity and creates an environment in which nurses cannot see past the artificial box in which they ' ve been summarily placed.However, when the conversation is allowed to proceed unfettered, the light bulb will often go off, and the nurse in question will have an epiphany that opens their eyes to their unbridled potential for meaningful work, personal agency, and deep satisfaction.The particular client mentioned above simply needs a push in order to see that there are nurses who have carved incredibly rich professional niches for themselves, often in fields t...
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