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Your Nursing Career and a Latte?

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Don't Forget the Foam The steamed milk and foam that are poured into and over the espresso of your nursing career and nurseness are like the cherry on top of a sundae. The foam may be represented by a special certification or training, deep self-knowledge and self-awareness, keen emotional intelligence.

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Your Nursing Career Report Card

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Your career toolbox: I've written and podcasted about the nursing career toolbox before, so let's review what that means. Self-care and wellness: Self-care and personal wellness can be inextricably connected to time management since we can easily let go of our self-care when time just slips through our fingers.

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Spinning It Positive in Nursing Job Interviews

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Nurses, when you're sitting in a job interview for a new nursing position, do you feel like you have to constantly be on the defensive? Are you anxious about how to respond to questions that seem to be geared towards creating a crack in the foundation of your career and self-confidence?

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Mindset is Everything in Your Nursing Career and Beyond

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In my work as a holistic career coach for nurses, there's one thing I've noticed more than anything else: mindset matters to your nursing and healthcare career. Caffrey and Caffrey wrote: Can nurses practice caring within a healthcare system that promotes codependency?

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Words as a Barometer of Your Nursing Career

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We all have bad days, and we also need to be careful when we're at risk of falling into negative language traps that paint us into corners filled with bad feelings, resentment, and negativity -- all of which can contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue. My experience is that nurses are often hesitant to toot their own horns.

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5 Actions for Overcoming Nursing Career Attention Deficit Disorder

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It sure can feel that way, especially for the types of personalities drawn to nursing -- let's face it, we like to fix and take care of others, often ignoring our own needs as we do so. Nursing Career Attention Deficit Disorder occurs when we're simply overwhelmed with information and responsibility.

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10 Strategies for Feeding the Nurse's Inner Life

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In managing their careers and busy lives, nurses can be very focused on the "outer" aspects of life and work: family, chores, shopping, resumes, job-hunting, pursuing education, social media, etc. But how do we keep the nurse's inner life fed and watered? Strategy #3: Remember your creative self!