Let us not beat around the bush. As some of you may know, I am a nursing burnout expert. I help people like you to prevent burnout and thrive in your career as nurses. 

Today, I will begin sharing with you the specific stresses in nursing. The experience of burnout in nursing is directly correlated to maladaptive responses to stress. 

This week I’m looking at stress in nursing in general.

 More importantly, today I will be helping you to make a solid decision of whether you want to start now to give yourself your best chance to love nursing or not. To show you how to stop dreading work and how to change your thinking about leaving nursing altogether. 

The thing is, everyone knows about stress in nursing. But not everyone is intentional about preventing it or healing themselves. That’s the truth!

I know of so many people who are interested in stress in nursing but only slightly interested in making some real changes in their lives to prevent it.  They have tried but they never get anywhere because they do not dig deep enough to truly understand why reducing stress in nursing is so important.

After working for over a decade as a nurse and witnessing/experiencing a lot of  stress in nursing, I have distilled the main reasons why nurses are stressed at work. 

The main 3 are:

-Emotional overload (dealing with and seeing distressing things at work).

-Physical overload (shift work is physically hard manual work).

-Workload (think no ratios and very acute patients!) and being undervalued (no recognition from your boss for example) close behind. 

What about you? 

Do any of these reasons resonate with you?

 Based on this I want you to be honest and clear with yourself about how you are managing your work stress. This will help you get clear on what you can do, to ensure you love your work and thrive in your career. 

I want you to be really clear on the ways in which you are trying to prevent work stress. Let us not talk about superficial reasons. I want you to dig deep to truly figure out a way that works for you and you alone! 

 If you realize that finding ways, that include shift recovery and other self care habits, may be something you are interested in?

 I’m here to walk this journey with you! DM me on insta and email me at beth@autonomic.com.au to discuss more. 

But for now think about what is your personal WAY of preventing and treating your work stress. Perhaps you will need a few different methods. 

 Also have a think about what life would be like for you if you were able to better manage work stress. 

I truly don't think that it's a coincidence that you are here reading this. This is a sign- take it!