EmpoweRNment: Nurse Burnout Podcast

EmpoweRNment: Nurse Burnout Podcast

Hosted by: Janna Holterman

This podcast teaches burnt-out nurses how to navigate a broken healthcare system so you can love what you do no matter where you work as a nurse. This is for the nurse who is experiencing burnout yet recognizes that...

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The Benefits of Nursing

Working in healthcare isn't for the faint of heart. There is so many issues going on right now for us and it's to get succeed in to the frustration and resentment. This episode is a bit of a silver lining, taking a...
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Routines that Work for Burnt out Nurses

You’re drained and exhausted and you tell yourself you need to do something to feel better. You’ve tried a few things but nothing lasts. You know your health should be a priority but when you’re done at the hospital...
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Meeting Hospital Metrics

Metrics are necessary part of modern healthcare. They are the how we track the care and outcomes of our patients. Yet nurses and healthcare professions are let feeling frustrated and resentful while at the mercy of...
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Handling Changes in Your Unit

Change is a constant with in healthcare but when you are battling burnout sometimes changes feel overwhelming and unnecessary. I dealt with new policies being implemented in my own unit that left me annoyed and...
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The Best Nursing career

Are you burnt out in your current nursing job and wondering what your next steps are? Should you go back to school? Find a new job? Maybe doing something cushy for a while, well you get your feet back under you. There...
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Making Nursing Errors

What happens when you make an error at work or in your life. You tend to go down a rabbit hole of all the things you did wrong and how you could have possibly let this happen. When you are in a state of nursing...
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Being Where you Want to Be in Your Nursing Career

It's easy to feel like you're not where you want to be in your nursing career and life. Nursing creates heavy demands on you that leave most of us just going through the motions and not moving forward in our careers...
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Talking to Your Nurse Manager

Do you ever feel like things would be better if you just changed a few things about your nursing job? A lot of that starts with advocating for your needs like you advocate for you patients. Once you’re clear on what...
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Being Valued as a Nurse

Do you feel undervalued and unappreciated in your nursing job? I talk about how I went from resenting my job for not appreciating me to confidently knowing my worth and the value I add as a nurse on my unit. It's not...
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Going Through the Motions as a Nurse

You feel like you're numbed out to life right now. Your alarm goes off for your shift and you get that sense of dread but you drag yourself to work. You expect to get a train wreck patient or admission because that's...
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Compassion Fatigue

Compassion fatigue is something people talk about in healthcare but what does that really mean? I talk about one of my clients experiences of it and how it actually occurs as bedside nurse. Connect with me on IG:...
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Dumpster fire Shifts

I have had a few weeks of chaotic shifts, where patients are crashing and i've been running around like wild. I have the skills and tools to handle these shifts and I share what has worked for me and my clients in...
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