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…
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…
Your Holiday To Do List Updated
The pressures along with the joys of the holidays is quickly encroaching. Figuring out all that needs to get done in order for you to enjoy your break, if you’re getting one, can be challenging. As nurses and physicians you’re probably thinking about others and how you can best meet their needs. It is helpful…
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,…
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