nursing – Brooke's Honest and Truth Blog, RN

When are they going to find out?

I am going on twenty years as a nurse, and I did come down with a mild case of pneumonia and so I am sitting in my house and I am stewing. What am I stewing about, you may ask? The fact the hospital puts on a donation ball every year so they can raiseContinue reading “When are they going to find out?”

Burnout vs. Moral Injury vs. Betrayal

According to Psychology Today, “burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress.” I hear a lot of peers, hospital administrators saying, “They are burned out.” Then administrators, f-ing fix it. I am not talking managers; I am talking to the upper management. The cost ofContinue reading “Burnout vs. Moral Injury vs. Betrayal”

No Life Outside of the Hospital

I am finding a pattern lately. As nurses, we focus so much on our work inside the system, we lose ourselves. We find that caring for others fills our souls so much that we forget what fills our souls outside of work. We become lost. We hide away in our houses; we don’t feel likeContinue reading “No Life Outside of the Hospital”

Becoming a Coach

After 15 years of being a bedside nurse, I was burnt out. I was sitting outside on my patio, and told myself, there has to be more to help people than just put band aids on and feed them pills. I was looking through Instagram and a nurse coach program came up and I wasContinue reading “Becoming a Coach”