The Noteworthy Nurse

Monday.....start of the work week for some....end of it for others......long weekend perhaps for some

Regardless of where you work as a professional nurse, schedules differ colleague to colleague & can frequently change. Yet somehow through all of the flux, we are expected to accept the changes politely.

No upset, no rant. Make it work. Scramble for childcare. Swap shifts. Cancel pick ups. Try to find the words to say "no, I'm. not staying".

Somehow we make it work for everyone else before ourselves.

Resentment easily creeps into our psyche. Stirs up our emotions. Shows up in what we say, how we say it, to whom we say it to (and to whom we don't say it to)

Perhaps polite isn't the best way. What if effective internal and external communication took you out of overwhelm, anxiety, overthinking, overanticipating the "how to " the "what to do if" the "what's gonna happen next if".

How effective would one be if fear wasn't the driver that kept us silent? or had us wanting to take back the words that forefully came out of our mouths?

Words matter. How they are delivered matters.

Don't let words be the symptom of underlying issues make them the solution 🩺