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Contributed Content: How Nurses Can Practice Self-Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

Prioritizing self-care is crucial for maintaining well-being and can help reduce compassion fatigue and lower stress levels, says this nurse educator. As a nurse educator, I teach students about wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention for their patients.

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How Nurses Can Protect Their Mental Health: Smart Self-Care Strategies to Prevent Burnout

Minority Nurse

Nurses must take deliberate steps toward self-care, not as a luxury but as a necessity for staying grounded and effective. The following strategies offer a comprehensive approach for healthcare professionals to safeguard their mental health and maintain resilience in a demanding field.

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Mental Health and Well-Being Essentials Training for Healthcare Professionals

American Medical Compliance

The Mental Health and Well-Being Essentials Training for Healthcare Professionals teaches providers to recognize and manage common mental health issues in their field. By prioritizing mental health, providers can reduce burnout, improve job performance, and enhance patient care.

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Nurses need care too – how curbing self-sacrifice can prevent burnouts

Nursing Review

Culture of self-sacrifice I interviewed nurses in the Netherlands about their workplace experiences including burnout for my research. And I found that one of the main reasons nurses leave is because of the professions culture of self-sacrifice. Nursing education must teach self-care and boundary setting as essential skills.

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The Relentless School Nurse: A New Era in School Nursing, the 2025 Version

The Relentless School Nurse

We are praised for our ability to navigate emergencies, manage complex health needs, and act as anchors of calm in a storm of educational demands, student health crises, and systemic inequities. For school nurses, this would mean systemic changes that prioritize our well-being as much as the health of the students we serve.

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The Relentless School Nurse: 143 is a Simple Number with a Powerful Message

The Relentless School Nurse

Mr. Rogers even maintained a consistent weight of 143 pounds for decades, viewing it as a symbol of love, stability, and care, values that resonate deeply with our work in schools. This special day, which falls on the 143rd day of the year, serves as a reminder to live by Rogers’ ideals of compassion, community, and care.

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A Time to Look Out for YOUR Own Safety

Nurses Advocates

What has been alarming is the reaction from the public that the killing was based on how healthcare insurance companies are using cost-cutting methods to deny care to people to increase profits for the C-Suite and shareholders. Insurance companies’ mandates appear to put profit before safe patient care.