Nurses are tough. And yet so many nurses are suffering. We need to acknowledge the stress inherent to nursing if we want to feel better.

Drop the idea of a resolution for one minute. Drop the idea of making yourself smarter, richer, thinner, healthier, more consistent,

Compassion fatigue is not a death sentence to the career that you have poured your heart and soul into. Compassion fatigue is treatable.

Are you the person that people go to when there is a crisis? Are you really good at dropping everything and jumping into action? Read this

As Benjamin Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In healthcare, we know the little things matter.

Every nurse knows what compassion fatigue is. You spend a lot of time being compassionate. You know the fatigue that can come from it.

You’re not broken. Something isn’t wrong with you. You haven’t lost your empathy or your compassion or your drive. It’s time we talk...

Disappointment feels terrible. When we direct it at ourselves and top it with shame it can feel unbearable. The impact of this in our life c

Are you so busy? Are you so tired? We feel like we can't slow down or life will just fall apart. But if this is true, how can we feel better

We need our relationships at work to be strong. THIS is what we can focus on. Building up the people around us builds us all up

Nurses take care of A LOT of things at work and in life. The question: on a 0/10 scale, how much are you taking care of your physical body?

Do you ever feel like there is nothing you can do to feel better, that the situation is just too tough and you don't know where to start?

We don’t believe things can get better. We don’t believe that there is a way to progress, despite the odds. This is totally understandable.

We don't have to hit rock bottom before trying to improve our situations at work. Compassion fatigue and burnout can creep up on us.

December is one of the few months that people seem acutely aware of how many days are left. How do we protect ourselves from the panic?

One of the most common concerns of overwhelmed and exhausted nurses is that they’ve lost their empathy, having a job to do without the soul

How great is it to be on the receiving end of someone’s unprecedented kindness? What if every day, someone did something just for us?

Would you ever give up on your patients? When they are struggling and vulnerable? Holding belief FOR them is one of nurses' greatest skills

What is it that you want for Christmas? I want peace. Not world peace (I want that too) but peace within myself and I want it to start now.