Health
625 – Healing Nurse Trauma: Burnout, Self-Care, and Systemic Challenges – Dr. Lorre Laws
Professionals have been discussing the concept of nurse burnout and how it affects the profession for at least 50 years. Dr. Lorre Laws, whose Ph.D. is in nursing, realized from her own experiences and from interviewing and speaking to other nurses that the issue has been insufficiently addressed. She decided to rectify this. The result…
Read More520 Sleep Disorders and Their Cures – Jane Butler
While sleep problems can be particularly severe when a woman is going through menopause, sleep issues affect up to 70% of the world’s population. That’s why the perspectives provided by Jane Butler, a registered nurse and now a health coach, can be so useful to those of us who struggle with these issues. She describes…
Read More499 LNC Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle Dr. Hamid Elmyar
The pandemic has caused widespread awareness of burnout experienced by medical workers. Most people, though, don’t realize that burnout was already a critical issue among healthcare personnel. Increased pressure to see ever-greater numbers of patients, 12-hour shifts, and the constant burden of never having enough time ensured that the medical system, especially in hospitals, was…
Read More497 Stress, Burnout and the LNC- Anne Marie Huurre
The pandemic and other stressors have made the general public realize what mindfulness practitioners have known for centuries: Stress is a direct cause of burnout, illness and death. Anne-Marie was already committed to practicing mindfulness when her father developed Alzheimer’s and her mother Lewy body dementia. She was able to get through this extreme difficulty…
Read More495 How to Silence Your Inner Critic Annie Notestein
You’re doing some work-related tasks, and a voice ( your inner critic) tells you you’re doing it all wrong. Someone wrongly criticizes you, and you don’t speak up for yourself. When you try to go to sleep at night, you keep on thinking of everything you have to do to complete a project. Each of…
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