Entrepreneurial Compost
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Source: Digital Doorway - October 8, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: business nursing National Nurses in Business Association NNBA nurse entrepreneurs nurse entrepreneurship Source Type: blogs
Nurse Keith at the NNBA
This weekend, I'm in Orlando at the National Nurses in Business Association (NNBA) annual conference, along with many of my nurse entrepreneur colleagues, including my business partner and RN.FM Radio cohost, Kevin Ross. Over the course of this weekend, we're learning about nurse entrepreneurship, creating new connections, networking, and even meeting some of our friends who we've only met online until now (and having some fun along the way). Me, Kevin Ross and Renee ThompsonSome of the speakers at the NNBA conference include Renee Thompson (nurse bullying expert), Donna Cardillo (one of the most famous advocates for nurse...
Source: Digital Doorway - October 5, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: National Nurses in Business Association nursing nurse entrepreneurs business nursing nurse entrepreneurship NNBA Source Type: blogs
Nurses and Social Media
Many of you know that I'm the expert nurse blogger over at LPNtoBSNonline. Over the last few weeks, I've been posting about social media as it relates to nurses. Here are links to those posts, all of which are relatively short and sweet. The first post in the series, Tune In To Social Media for Nurses, is a brief overview of the importance of various major social media platforms that nurses can utilize, including Twitter, Facebook, Linked In and Google+.Post number two focuses on Linked In and its usefulness for nurses. I'm a true believer in the power of Linked In and find it amazingly helpful in terms of networking and c...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 30, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nurse nurses nurses and social media nursing Source Type: blogs
Nurse Empowerment: "Now" Is Always The Time
Nurses have a long history of being significantly disempowered. Historically, nurses served as "handmaidens" to all-mighty physicians, running at doctors' beck and call. The role of the nurse has changed over the years, but we nurses still need to feel empowered to fulfill the promise of our profession.During the twentieth century, many important factors served to empower nurses (the majority of whom were women) to come into their own. The rise of feminism in the 1960s was a crucial salvo that began to break down societal barriers for women. The subsequent emergence of so-called "Third-Wave Feminism" in the latter decades ...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 26, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nursing nurses medical care healthcare healthcare delivery healthcare economics medicine Source Type: blogs
Nursing and Happiness Are Not Mutually Exclusive
Many recent clients who have come to me for coaching are curious how to actually get what they want. Sometimes it seems we nurses are simply convinced that we need to work too hard for too many hours without being happy. This seems like a given in the profession, and some nurses see no way to create satisfaction and balance in their personal and professional lives. So is it possible to be happy as a nurse?I've been a nurse since 1996, and I've been relatively happy for most of my career. I say that I've been "relatively" happy because I experienced burnout approximately 10 years into my career, and that turning point was t...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 21, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: burnout burnout prevention burnout recovery nurse nurse burnout nurse self care nurse wellness nurses nursing self development self-care work-life balance Source Type: blogs
Nurse.com 11 Most Well-Written Nursing Blogs
I am thrilled and honored to have been included in the Nurse.com list of the 11 most well-written nursing blogs on the Internet. It's always a humbling experience to be chosen for such distinctions.While I could steal Nurse.com's thunder and tell you who the chosen bloggers are, I'd prefer that you surf over to their post and see what they had to say!My thanks to Scrubs.com for including me with such nurse blogger luminaries as Sean Dent, Renee Thompson and Theresa Brown! (Source: Digital Doorway)
Source: Digital Doorway - September 12, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: blogging awards medical blogging nurse bloggers nursing. nurse bloggers Source Type: blogs
Non-Traditional Nursing Careers: Where There Is No Box
Ask just about anyone what a nurse does and where a nurse works, and the general response is, "Oh, she works in a hospital." Apropos of that statement, when I tell someone I'm a nurse, they generally say, "So, do you work at the hospital?" I have nothing against hospital nursing, but there's more to our profession than meets the eye, and many of us are waking up to the multiplicity of non-traditional opportunities just waiting to be grasped by the savvy nurse.Non-traditional nursing careers are multifaceted, and in this new century many nurses are realizing that they can leverage their skills in myriad ways. Whether it's a...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 11, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nurse professionalism nurse identity nursing nurses nurse entrepreneurs career business nursing nurse entrepreneurship Source Type: blogs
Nurses and Relationships: Cooperation is Key!
Relationships between nurses are impacted by multiple factors, including stress, workloads, personalities, as well as the "culture" of the institution where those nurses are employed. What can nurses do to enhance their relationships at work, especially when it comes to cooperation?First, we need to agree that relationships at work matter. It's often said that it's possible to spend more time with your coworkers than with your own spouse or family, and that can sometimes actually be the case. While I'm not a big proponent of work-based friendships that entail a great deal of socializing outside of work (stay tuned for anot...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 28, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nurse professionalism nurse identity scrubs magazine nursing nurses nurse-nurse relationships blog carnivals Source Type: blogs
Board Certified Nurse Coaches: A New Reality
This week, dear Readers, I'm writing this brief post to share with you the exciting news that I am now a Board Certified Nurse Coach (NC-BC)!Under the auspices of the American Holistic Nurse Certification Corporation (an arm of the American Holistic Nurses Association), a new designation has been created to recognize the new professional specialty of nurse coaching. This designation has been many years in the making, and the competencies of the Board Certified Nurse Coach have been designed to echo the backbone of the our profession--the nursing process.At this juncture, there are 83 Board Certified Nurse Coaches in the Un...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 23, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nursing nurses nurse coaching NC-BC Board Certified Nurse Coach nurse coaches nurse entrepreneurs nurse entrepreneurship Source Type: blogs
Infographic: Family Nurse Practitioners To The Rescue
Thanks to Chamberlain College of Nursing for this very interesting infographic regarding Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs), Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) that will be needed in increasing numbers as our population ages and healthcare reform comes to fruition. Infographic by Chamberlain College of Nursing (Source: Digital Doorway)
Source: Digital Doorway - August 14, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nursing careers nurses advanced practice nursing advanced practice nurses family nurse practitioners Source Type: blogs
Career Changes for Nurses: What Calls You?
When a nurse needs a career change, the reasons can be myriad and multifaceted. However, when we only reach for the money or the career "advancement", we may miss a golden opportunity for a different sort of blossoming.We nurses change the course of our careers based on many factors, one of which may be money or the notion of "advancement". This is all well and good, but based on one of my previous posts about the soul work of evolving as a nurse, money and career development are only a part of the puzzle.What Calls You? Sometimes, a move from one aspect of nursing to another may feel like a lateral move rather than a...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 13, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nursing careers nurses Source Type: blogs
Book Review: "The Secret Rescue" by Cate Lineberry
"The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines", is a brilliant book outlining the harrowing tale of nurses and medics who, after crash-landing in Nazi-occupied Albania in 1943, survived an ordeal that tested the limits of their courage, determination and faith.During World War II, air evacuation of injured service members was a relatively new concept, and many nurses were trained--at times desultorily--to take part in evacuations that put them in grave danger. Cate Lineberry, the author of "The Secret Rescue", conducted extensive research to unearth and publish the story of 26 flight n...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 9, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: RN.FM Radio nursing nurses nursing history book reviews Source Type: blogs
Evolving As A Nurse: The Work of the Soul
The evolution of a nurse and his or her career is a very individual experience, and this experience expresses the spirit, nature and personality of the nurse in question. And when soul is infused into that journey, the entire tenor of the journey is deeply and irrevocably changed. When considering the arc of a nurse's career, one can easily picture hospital rooms, patients, stethoscopes, syringes, and other ubiquitous trappings of "nurseness". This is all well and good (and assuredly pedestrian in nature), and I would add that there is much more to one's evolution than the usual flotsam and jetsam that make up the life of ...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 29, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nursing nurses nurse self care blog carnivals self-care self development personal development Source Type: blogs
Nurses: Compassion For The Self
Nurses, when you consider the level of compassion with which you treat your patients, do you also consider the possibility that you can treat yourself with that same compassion? Do you feel that you deserve it?Nurses convey and communicate compassion by default. Our profession is steeped in compassion. And while there are obviously nurses out there who you would not necessarily readily identify as empathic by nature, you would probably agree that the majority of our nursing brethren are indeed caring individuals who spend a great deal of time and energy assuaging the pain and suffering of others.The Nurse and the Pat...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 24, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nurse-patient relationships nurse wellness nurse self care compassion self-care Source Type: blogs
Nurses: Surviving Versus Thriving
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Source: Digital Doorway - July 18, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: nurse wellness nursing nurses nurse self care burnout prevention Source Type: blogs
