Are you a nurse who has been sitting on the sidelines, curious about career options and how to leverage your nursing skills to create a career that works for you? If so, it's time to give yourself permission to explore and apply for new opportunities.
In this episode of the High Performance Nursing Podcast, we’ll talk about the importance of giving yourself permission to apply and the role that stress plays in holding us back. By understanding our stress levels and finding ways to regulate them, we can create a nursing career that aligns with our goals and aspirations.
Key takeaways:
01:10 Need for a trigger or event to stimulate action in nursing careers
03:01 Permitting oneself to explore different pathways
04:11 Changing by design or by disaster
06:24 Two states of stress: hyper and hypo
10:43 Importance of understanding physiology and making changes to manage stress
12:46 Comparing chronic stress and chronic fatigue
13:29 The consequences of not addressing chronic stress
17:18 The impact of stress on decision-making and capacity for change
18:04 The stress experienced by nursing students and graduates
20:40 Normalizing stress and raising awareness of stress levels
21:41 Spend more time in homeostasis for better nursing career.
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