![To Dream the [im]Possible Dream](https://heartofwellbeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Don-Quixote-150x150.jpg)
Given the reality of healthcare, thinking about ease and pleasure at work, seems like the impossible dream. All the various demands, the feelings of you’ve got to do it on your own and the unending documentation and regulations limit your vision of what is possible. Recently, I saw Man of LaMancha, a beautiful, sad and…
6 Standards for Excellence at Work
Preparing for my Vital Signs of Well-Being presentation for the American Association of Critical Nurses (AACN) regional Horizons conference, I learned about Healthy Work Environment standards which were identified in 2005. These were developed in response to evidence that “unhealthy” workplaces contributed to medical errors, conflict and stress among workers, ineffective delivery of care and…
Preparing to Deal with Stress Effectively
What do you say and ask yourself after you’ve been stressed at work? Working in healthcare can be overwhelming with demands from patients, colleagues, administrators and third party payers. All the stresses can lead to Burnout. Prevention of and recovery from burnout needs to be dealt with on a variety of levels – individual, team,…
Strategies for Longevity in Your Career as a Nurse
Congratulations! You’re about to start out in your first nursing job. You know it will be challenging, and you’ve been putting your brain, heart and soul into doing a good job to learn the skills needed to serve you patients. What are you doing to serve yourself at this time of transition? What are you…
Insights from a Camp Nurse
Have you ever wondered how to balance teamwork with individual boundaries? I spent the last two plus weeks working as a nurse at an overnight camp that my children used to attend. I’ve been doing this for close to 10 years. This year I was more aware of the balancing act that sometimes needs to…
Ways to use Self-Compassionate Mindfulness
Are you so busy that sometimes you feel like an automaton or perhaps even a zombie? Constantly doing can interfere with being aware of what it is you are doing and what is going on. The third component of self-compassion engages your awareness so you can take a balanced approach as you experience and observe…
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