A blog about mental health, nursing, and leadership
Grounding helps you focus on your senses, body or physical surroundings rather than the problem or the emotion. For people suffering with post-traumatic stress disorders, nightmares or flashbacks, grounding or earthing exercises help you bring you back down to earth. The more you practice, the easier it becomes to gain that sense of calm in the present moment.
Nurses often are said to have the strangest of personalities. Covered in unrecognizable bodily fluids, faced with a life-or-death procedure, yelled at by inter- departmental staff members, they last 8–12hour days without a break, holding a full bladder, dealing with a patient that abuses the call light, faced with distraught family members, and they can still be on their top game. But what happens, when the passion begins to fade? Or a mountain of self-doubt creeps in?
At this point, I had to decide, how far along was I willing to compromise? My professional integrity was at stake. The enthusiasm, the do-or-die attitude, the determination to ‘give it my all’ was gradually fading. The exhaustion, mental fatigue and professional stagnation were beginning to set in. Could I still be a ‘good nurse’ and do justice to my profession? I had hit the ceiling in my career there.
COVID-19 and the flu season have given birth to a new lesser-known pandemic-The mental health crisis. While I do not know the exact numbers about the rise of mental health conditions during this pandemic,...
The Year of the Nurse is almost coming to an end. Every nurse’s New Year’s resolutions are going to be a lot different from every other year. After having gone through an excruciating year...
Mental health / Mental Heath Nursing / Nursing
by adsouzajy
by adsouzajy · Published December 14, 2020
Now that the vaccine for the novel corona virus seems to be on our doorsteps, the bigger question that seems to have appeared is, ‘How many are actually willing to take this vaccine?’ There...
Having a strong nurse leader in a healthcare setting often plays a vital role in a nurse’s decision to either stay or leave an organization. As a nurse, you have the vision, the creativity and the critical thinking ability. You are trained in instant decision making and critical thinking at the bed-side. It is high time, you as a nurse began developing your leadership skills. These skills can be learned and developed, contrary to the popular belief that leaders are born and not made.
We have an amazing parking place at work. What is so amazing about it, you may ask? That parking place has seen staff meltdowns and breakdowns after or in the middle of a challenging...
A traumatic event is one that poses a significant threat to life or mental stability. It can happen not just to the service users but also to the service providers especially those working in...
If there is one thing that I regret to this present day; it was my failure to recognize the signs of early Alzheimer’s. It wasn’t until, one morning he took my brother’s 10-year-old son to the market and came back without him that I began to put the pieces together.
As anyone with a loved one with Alzheimer’s will have experienced, Alzheimer’s affects not just an individual but the entire family as well. For with the diagnosis come the novel challenges of dealing with progressive memory loss, changes in the personality and the huge, sometimes dramatic changes in the family dynamics.
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