Cultivating positive thinking skills
This study provided unique insight into the ability of nurses to reduce stress by encouraging positivity thinking skills.
Inspired innovation: Teamwork reaps universal benefits
The 2025 All Pro Nursing Team winners have been announced. As our first-place team noted in their application, “Good nurses inspire themselves, but great nurses inspire each other.” That’s exactly what each of this year’s award recipients has accomplished—they’ve provided…
I remember: Reflections of a hospice nurse
As I drive down the road I pass familiar houses. The homes flood me with memories. I remember the faces. I remember the look in your eyes. The smile when I came through the door. The pleading look when the…
The Secret Garden: A staff-only wellness and respite space
Nurses provide care despite the challenges of their environment. Despite additional training and support, noticeable stress remains due to the nature of managing challenging patient behaviors and the rise in workplace violence. As leaders in behavioral health at our organization,…
Self-compassion in practice
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing plans to revise nurse training to include self-care behaviors, emotional intelligence, reflection, and situational awareness. Self-care involves providing the love, kindness, and practices needed to maintain one’s mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.…
Wellness challenges
The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Survey found that 50.8% of respondents felt emotionally drained, 45.1% felt burned out, and 56.4% felt “used up.” Wellness challenges can foster healthy competition, teamwork, and community-building, but success requires variety, simplicity, voluntary participation, and…
Connections ease nurses’ burdens
“Hello, I’ll be your nurse today.” These six words signal to a nurse’s brain that they’re no longer an individual but rather part of a collective engaged in a fascinating rollercoaster of assessment, intervention, and evaluation of the human experience.…
Self-acupressure to reduce stress and fatigue
The fatigue and stress experienced by nurses require self-care, but lack of time or space may prove challenging in a clinical setting. Self-acupressure offers an option for boosting energy and enhancing calm without much time investment.
Psychologically informed nurse support
Nurses across the profession have experienced increased stress and distress, which has only intensified during the global pandemic
What’s your reason for nursing?
An often-repeated anecdote about how Florence Nightingale decided nursing was to be her life’s work is an incident that occurred in 1837. In her diary entry on February 7 of that year, she wrote “… God spoke to me and…
Keep Calm and Caring
Slogans are terse and memorable phrases typically associated with political campaigns and advertising. They’re the progeny of aphorism and axioms. Some of these catchphrases have become such a part of everyday lingo that we “just do it” without even thinking.…
Prevent compassion fatigue through self-compassion
Consider these simple practices. Takeaways: Nurses are at high risk for developing compassion fatigue, which can have a negative impact on nurses, patients, and organizations. Self-compassion practices are an evidence-based intervention for compassion fatigue. When nurses take steps to care…
Be your own nurse: Forgiveness
COVID-19 has taught us many lessons. Some of those lessons are painful and some are hopeful. In the time of pandemic, focusing on the healing of the self means that multiple areas of pain and struggle must be explored. How…