Showing posts with label Causes of Nursing Burnout. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Is Nursing Making You Sick, Fat and Old? Annette Tersigni “The Yoga Nurse”, RN

As nurses, you are certainly aware that stress is one of the major medical problems of our times.  Studies show that nurses are the single sickest group of workers in the workforce.  Ouch!  This is appalling. When I worked nights in the PCU, I noticed that there were many more obese nurses working nights than days.  What have you observed?   In my experience, I have noticed that without exception, obese nurses apply to work nights. They want to work nights. These dedicated, long term night shift nurses also are on multiple meds and often discuss how many meds they are on, compare them, etc.  What strikes me is that they speak about it in such a way as if it’s the most natural thing in the world.  Please understand, I am writing this out of compassion for my fellow nurses, not as a critique.  I am telling the truth, and yes, sometimes the truth hurts.  We all know by now that working nights increases your risk for disease.

A nurse is the classic poster child for, “Is this job making me sick?”

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Annette Tersigni RN (theyoganurse) on Twitter

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@theyoganurse Crystal Coast, North Carolina
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@ the heart of nursing is love., yoga nursing nurtures that heart. Thank you sweet nursing sister. xoxo

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@ @ yes, remembering with peace.

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A Caring Product for Caregivers-

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@ Blissings nursing sister xoxo

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Our overdoing IS our undoing.

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Breathing into the Spring of Gratitude to All of YOU!

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A new form of Caring and Self Care for Nurses

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Report: Communication Breakdown Leads to Hospital Errors - Health Blog - WSJ

We’ve written about how a small but significant number of health-care workers show disrespect for colleagues, dole out verbal abuse and engage in other unacceptable behavior. Now a new report suggests this kind of poor workplace communication can also contribute to medical errors, even if other preventive steps are being taken.

According to a two-pronged survey of operating-room and critical-care nurses conducted by their professional associations and VitalSmarts, a global training and consulting firm, 85% of 2,383 nurses surveyed said they’d been in a situation where measures put in place to reduce errors –  including checklists or hand-off protocols — warned them of a problem that would have otherwise harmed a patient.

That’s the good news. The bad is that 58% of the nurses said they’d been in situations where it was “either unsafe to speak up or they were unable to get others to listen.”

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

When a Nurse Says, "I Don't Care" - Nursing Link

I don’t care.

Those aren’t the words you want to hear coming from the mouth of a nurse.

Now true, nurses are human, and there are things that we don’t care about, but the phrase itself, while on the job, just sounds so… unprofessional.

As nurses, we encounter so many challenges every day. Often times we have to wait on other departments, facilities, or patients. If we are not waiting on something (a lab, a transporter, a phone call), we are rushing to do or get something done ourselves. It’s very much a feast or famine profession. It is rare that things progress and a steady predictable pace. We have those days, but they are few and far between. Most of the time we are constantly trying to balance the push and pull required to deliver good patient care. And sometimes that means being made to wait.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Don't bring stress home with you, Scrubsmag.com

As a nurse, I don’t think we will ever be able to eliminate stress. I think a certain amount of stress is expected in our line of work. I mean, let’s get real. We’re in the business of saving, and improving the quality of lives here. Stress is just part of the game.

But, just like an athlete playing a ‘game’, we need to leave it all on the field. Yeah, it’s a loose analogy, but it goes a long way. Athletes leave it all on the field and we nurses should leave it all at work.

Bringing stress-related issues home with you just compounds the original problem(s). We have a tendency to take that high-octane paced environment and just keep on driving until we drive it on home. Then you’re ‘wired for sound’ for your significant other or family member. You end up being unpleasant and short-fused with persons who really have nothing to do with your stress. Yet, these are the people that usually have to figure out how to deal with it? So then your level of stress gets even higher since you have no solution.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Where are the Nurses Mr. President? Nobody Cares.

To the President of the United States from the Yoga Nurse:

Dear Mr. President,

May I be so bold to tell you in my not-so humble opinion the answer to your question, “Where are the nurses?”  Elementary dear Watson.  Nobody wants the job.  why not? because … “This Job is Killing Me.

As an advocate for nurses, I currently teach meditation, natural stress relief techniques and medical yoga to nurses and nursing organizations through out the country to help them with morale and wellness on the job.  Shockingly, I often hear nurses say these exact words to me: “This job is killing me and I’d kill to get off the floor.” It shocked me because I too said those very words at times in my nursing career, but never out loud, and only to myself.  These words are engraved in my psyche as the global lament of way too many nurses.  Never mind what country, color, religion or background of the nurse, (I have worked in Canada and the USA) it is the same story and not a pretty one.

Why is this job killing me? There are endless reasons why nurses are “dying” from their work and why the job is literally making them sick.  Just a few examples that you can surely relate to: Insufficient staffing, overwork, impossibly long shifts, endless charting, little time for patient care, working with inexperienced nurses, burnt out nurses, slackers, disrespect, conflicts between nurses, nurses and doctors, managers, management, lawsuits and liability, being abused by patients i.e. hitting, biting, scratching, punching, yelling, poor health issues, obesity because the only reward is eating…that is, if you get the chance on any given shift, accusations of improper care, etc. etc. etc… (Your turn, fill in the blanks____. _____. _____.). Enough already, you get the idea.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

When the Nurse Is a Bully - By Theresa Brown, R.N. - NYTimes.com

It was the end of my shift, and I listened as one of my co-workers was being hassled over the phone for the second time that day. The computer wouldn’t release a patient record, and a nurse in another department was blaming her.

“Why are nurses so mean to each other?” I blurted out.

“Well yeah,” my co-worker said, “It’s that whole ‘Nurses eat their young’ thing.”

Nurses eat their young. The expression is standard lore among nurses, and it means bullying, harassment, whatever you want to call it. It’s that harsh, sometimes abusive treatment of new nurses that is entrenched on some hospital floors and schools of nursing. It’s the dirty little secret of nursing, and it needs to be publicly acknowledged, and just as publicly discussed, because it’s keeping us down.

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