Burnout is a buzz word that is everywhere right now and it is ABOUT TIME.
2. Be confident that you have the skills to be the nurse that you want to be.
If I could say one thing to all the nurses out there it would be this:
YOU HAVE VALUE.
You went through four years of school and passed the NCLEX. You are a highly trained professional that can critically assess a situation and determine a patient's needs. You are a part of a rich lineage that has changed the safety and quality of healthcare for the better (Thank you Florence!). The only thing ever holding you back from achieving your goals is inner drama. If you want to be a NICU nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse CEO, you have to be willing to go after your dreams and have the confidence that if you keep working and keep failing you will get there.
4. Get a burnout coach
When you are stuck in burnout and believe that is nothing you can do to fix things, it is harder to get out of burnout. Having someone with both the expertise and knowledge of nurse burnout makes it easier to see how you can easily and successfully overcome burnout and succeed in your life and career.
As a burnout coach, I help my clients to breakdown and overcome burnout so they can show up grounded and confident. If you would like to see how burnout coaching can help you, sign up below for your free hour consult.
Last week the World Health Organization listed burnout as an occupational phenomenon or a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress. Signs of burnout include energy depletion, apathy, and reduced professional efficacy. As a nurse, burnout is a reality in the healthcare setting with over 50% of nurses reporting symptoms of burnout.
The problem with burnout is that it shows up differently for every person based upon the situation, who they are, and how they handle stress. I have been severely burnout three times in my nursing career, each time was different. The first time I was anxious, the second time I was angry, and the final time I was overwhelmed.
Since burnout can show up differently for each person, the best person to address their burnout is actually the person experiencing it. Here are four tips to help manage or fight burnout.
Four Tips for Managing Burnout
1. Be 100% responsible for your mental, physical, and spiritual self-care.
Self-care is like putting money in a savings account. Every day, you make a decision about whether to make a deposit into your self-care account or not. That decision will either increase or deplete your account. However, self-care is not the same as choosing fast food or drinking wine because you had a long shift. Self-care is doing things that improve your mental, physical, and spiritual health. These are things like hobbies, learning, spending time with family, exercising, going to church, or meditation.
2. Be confident that you have the skills to be the nurse that you want to be.If I could say one thing to all the nurses out there it would be this:
YOU HAVE VALUE.
You went through four years of school and passed the NCLEX. You are a highly trained professional that can critically assess a situation and determine a patient's needs. You are a part of a rich lineage that has changed the safety and quality of healthcare for the better (Thank you Florence!). The only thing ever holding you back from achieving your goals is inner drama. If you want to be a NICU nurse, nurse practitioner, nurse CEO, you have to be willing to go after your dreams and have the confidence that if you keep working and keep failing you will get there.
3. Choose what you think and what you feel.
What you think or believe about anything in life is a choice. Our greatest blessing and curse is our minds. Our minds can do amazing things like solve problems and create new ideas. However, our minds can create problems and get stuck in a mindset that makes life harder for us. If you think your job is awful, then you see all the ways your job is awful. If you think your job is amazing, then your brain is going to find all the ways it is amazing. By taking ownership of what you think and feel, you take control of your life and what results you get.
4. Get a burnout coach
When you are stuck in burnout and believe that is nothing you can do to fix things, it is harder to get out of burnout. Having someone with both the expertise and knowledge of nurse burnout makes it easier to see how you can easily and successfully overcome burnout and succeed in your life and career.
As a burnout coach, I help my clients to breakdown and overcome burnout so they can show up grounded and confident. If you would like to see how burnout coaching can help you, sign up below for your free hour consult.
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