How do you define expertise within your profession? Here are some ideas – Skill mastery Results Number of sales, patients or customers coming to you Customer and peer recognition of your strengths within the profession Income Probably a combination of these helps you identify an expert in your field. Results reminds me of the case…
Cultivate Optimism & Reap the Benefits
In healthcare it is easy to get caught up in negativity with the focus on disease, chief complaints and set backs for patients. This makes it all the more important for you to cultivate optimism. Optimism is generally defined as 1. focusing your attention on the positive side of situations and 2. Expecting good things…
Grow Your Resilience
Being a physician or nurse is often physically and mentally challenging. To stay fit you need to grow your resilience and go beyond physical fitness. Focusing on your own well-being in an intentional way is essential for building resilience. When you demonstrate alignment with the healthy behaviors you encourage your patients too. Without refueling with…
A Care Plan for You
You make care plans for patients and plans for your family and for meals and appointments and vacations and…; what about making a self-care plan for you? The hectic life of working long hours being in demand throughout the day and again outside of work can lead you to feeling lost in the shuffle. Creating…
It’s Time to Replenish, before it’s too late
One image of burnout is a bank account that is overdrawn. You make deposits into your energy bank account with eating well, exercise, loving relationships, connecting to purpose and more. Withdrawals are made as you expend energy, caring for others, documentation, rushing to complete tasks, worrying, and other energy burners. Sometimes your energy account runs low.…
Fantasies of an Alternative Job
When burnt out at work, feeling exhausted, disconnected and having little impact, it’s not uncommon to think about alternatives. When I speak with people who are working with serious life issues like personal and family health matters, poverty, suicide threats and addiction, they often have fantasies of an alternative job. Some of the work…
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