Children's Hospital Los Angeles, StaffGarden.com, & Nurses
As a career coach for nurses and healthcare professionals, I frequently receive notifications regarding employment opportunities throughout the United States, particularly for nurses. I ' ve decided to begin posting about such events that I feel positive about; I hope some nurse readers will take advantage of the events and opportunities that are most salient for them. < br / > < br / > < div class= " separator " style= " clear: both; text-align: center; " > < a href= " http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aEzVd8k41G4/VqORhSspI7I/AAAAAAAAOuQ/rdcA7jaGdbs/s1600/FB-Image-1.png " imageanchor= " 1 " style= " margin-left: 1em; margin-ri...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 26, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: career development careers healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, StaffGarden.com, & Nurses
As a career coach for nurses and healthcare professionals, I frequently receive notifications regarding employment opportunities throughout the United States, particularly for nurses. I've decided to begin posting about such events that I feel positive about; I hope some nurse readers will take advantage of the events and opportunities that are most salient for them.On Monday, February 15th, my friends at StaffGarden.com are partnering with Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) for a special nurse hiring event. RN positions in NICU, OR, ER, and PACU are open, and an interview spot can be reserved by following this link. I...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 26, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: career development careers healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Escape Velocity
There are many of us who desire change during the course of our nursing careers, but change can be hard to manifest for a variety of reasons: boredom, ennui, limiting beliefs, lack of imagination, low self-esteem, difficult life circumstances, finances, burnout, or perhaps a rut so deep that we can't dig ourselves out.In order to break free of the earth's gravitational field, a rocket must reach 25,020 miles per hour. Is your needed escape velocity equally daunting? If you were to gain the momentum needed to make a change, what is the escape velocity you would need to actually make it happen? My Lonely, Embittered Planet...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 21, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
11 Years of Digital Doorway
Today, on the historic occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I'm also celebrating 11 years of publishing this blog, Digital Doorway. It's an exciting and inspiring day in my world and the world at large. Back in 2005, I didn't really have a dream about being a blogger; my brother simply challenged me to start a blog (something that was pretty novel at the time), and I took the challenge and ran with it. But writing about nursing and healthcare is inspiring, and my dream coalesced as the years rolled by. Having said that, blogging has led me down many unexpected paths, and my dream of supporting nurses in the...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 18, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Digital Doorway birthday Source Type: blogs
Med-Surg Nursing, Dr. Renee Thompson, and San Diego
For those of you deep in the heart of medical-surgical nursing, you know that skill and knowledge go hand in hand. While I have not myself spent time in the med-surg milieu, I know that nurses caring for patients in acute care med-surg environments are both specialists and generalists. For this reason, I am partnering with Renee Thompson by speaking at her upcoming 2nd Annual Medical-Surgical Nursing Symposium in beautiful San Diego.While many of you may recognize Dr. Thompson as the foremost national leader on eradicating bullying and harassment in the healthcare workplace, Renee is also a superb lecturer on a variety of ...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 13, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nurses nursing Renee Thompson Source Type: blogs
Growing Your Nursing Career in the New Year
As the New Year dawns with the turn of a calendar page, are you envisioning how you'd like to turn a new leaf and grow your nursing career in novel and exciting ways? Although the New Year can seem contrived, there's nothing artificial about wanting to move your career forward. In fact, desiring change is natural. So, if change is generally inevitable and a career is meant for growth and evolution, why not take the bull by the horns and manifest the changes that you most greatly desire?For me, the New Year isn't about resolutions; those are often empty promises made to yourself, and they're easy to break. Rather, I like ...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 31, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development careers healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Who's Driving The Bus of Your Nursing Career?
Plenty of people probably have opinions about what your nursing career should look like. However, the person behind the wheel of your nursing career should be you. Are you truly driving the bus of your nursing career? < br / > < br / > < div class= " separator " style= " clear: both; text-align: center; " > < a href= " http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UoLqPASaO2g/VnVrK5PJsvI/AAAAAAAAOoE/8r5NxO9Me2I/s1600/1.png " imageanchor= " 1 " style= " margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; " > < img alt= " Who ' s driving the bus of your nursing career? " border= " 0 " height= " 400 " src= " http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UoLqPASaO2g/VnVrK5PJ...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 19, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers nurse nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Who's Driving The Bus of Your Nursing Career?
Plenty of people probably have opinions about what your nursing career should look like. However, the person behind the wheel of your nursing career should be you. Are you truly driving the bus of your nursing career?Following up on a recent post entitled "Directing The Film of Your Nursing Career," I feel the need to drive home that it's crucial for nurses to internalize the fact that being behind the wheel of their careers is paramount.So many nurses I speak with feel constricted not only by the opinions of others, but also by the voices inside of their heads that tell them they're "less than" and unworthy. Whether these...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 19, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers nurse nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Nurse Keith's LinkedIn Roundup!
Most readers of Digital Doorway know that I provide holistic career coaching for savvy 21st-century nurses and healthcare professionals. And some of you may know that I ' m the only LinkedIn expert on the Internet (that I can find, anyway) who is also a nurse and nurse entrepreneur. Some readers have requested a one stop shop for the podcasts, articles, and posts that I ' ve published this year on the subject of the savvy use of LinkedIn; so, here ' s a little end-of-2015 LinkedIn roundup just for you! < br / > < br / > < div class= " separator " style= " clear: both; text-align: center; " > < a href= " http://4.bp.blogsp...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 13, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare careers Linked In networking nurse careers nurses and social media nursing careers social networking Source Type: blogs
Nurse Keith's LinkedIn Roundup!
Most readers of Digital Doorway know that I provide holistic career coaching for savvy 21st-century nurses and healthcare professionals. And some of you may know that I'm the only LinkedIn expert on the Internet (that I can find, anyway) who is also a nurse and nurse entrepreneur. Some readers have requested a one stop shop for the podcasts, articles, and posts that I've published this year on the subject of the savvy use of LinkedIn; so, here's a little end-of-2015 LinkedIn roundup just for you!A great place to begin regarding my LinkedIn content is episode #5 of The Nurse Keith Show. This will give you my basic take on L...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 13, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare careers Linked In networking nurse careers nurses and social media nursing careers social networking Source Type: blogs
Direct The Film of Your Nursing Career!
There's something to say about being in control, isn't there? And when you think about your nursing career, do you feel like you're in control, or are you allowing yourself to be a bit actor when you should actually be the star? It's up to you to seize the Director's chair and begin directing the film of your career. Are you ready? From the day you enter nursing school until the time that you retire from nursing, it can often feel like you're not in control. You're told where to go to clinical, who your patients will or won't be, what classes you should take, what specialty to focus on, what advanced degree to pursue, and ...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 10, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management healthcare careers nurse nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
The Quixotic Nurse
As a nurse writer and blogger, I often use metaphor as a way to express deeper ideas about nursing and healthcare. In the past, I've explored the myths of Sisyphus and Hercules as they relate to nurses and the nursing profession, and my nature continues to point me towards metaphor as a tool for understanding. I've recently been considering the figure of Don Quixote as another metaphor related to our often beleaguered profession; although much has been written about Quixote and the author Miguel Cervantes, I don't believe anything has been written about the potentially quixotic nature of nurses. So, my friends, I give you ...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Don Quixote Erin Brockovich Florence Nightingale health care healthcare delivery healthcare policy Mahatma Gandhi Martin Luther King nurse nurse bullying nurses nursing Renee Thompson Source Type: blogs
The Very Inspiring Blogger Award
I extend deep gratitude to both Carol Gino and The Nursing Site Blog for nominating Digital Doorway for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award. This is an award given by bloggers to fellow bloggers who inspire them and who are motivated to maintain the blogosphere as a beautiful place.The Very Inspiring Blogger Award has a goal of honoring bloggers, and to honor and learn more about the people behind the blogs that we nominate. The rules that accompany the award are the following: The first rule is that I am asked to share seven or eight facts about myself. Here we go.....I'm been married to the writer, coach, and performer/mo...
Source: Digital Doorway - November 27, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: blogs nurse nurses nursing nursing blog Source Type: blogs
Nurses, Mentors, and Leaders, Oh My!
Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of attending and participating in the Nurse Mentoring Institute's third annual conference. It was altogether inspiring and uplifting to be among so many nurses who embrace the notion of mentoring as an important aspect of our profession, especially when the practices used are evidence-based and supported by rigorous research. Being at a well-organized nursing conference is almost always an experience that fires me up like no other, and the NMI conference was not an exception in that regard. The afterglow of nursing conferences is something I'm very aware of these days, and my recent ...
Source: Digital Doorway - November 12, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Nurse Keith on Nurse.com!
The latest news in the nurse blogging world is that I have officially replaced Donna Cardillo as the expert nurse career blogger at Nurse.com! This is a humbling honor, and although it's no small task to fill the shoes of the world's consummate nursing career guru, I'm now posting over at Nurse.com twice per week, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive! Nurse.com + Nurse Keith Coaching The fact that Nurse.com owns the word "nurse" on the Internet is no small feat, and they are a highly reputable, positive, and respected force in the online nursing ecosystem. With a new blogging platform currently being...
Source: Digital Doorway - October 25, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management nurse nurse careers Nurse.com nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
