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Resilience in Nursing

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Nurses go into their profession expecting to love it. They feel they are called; that nursing is a vocation and not merely a profession. What could be better than making a difference in the life of another person? What other profession could be as rewarding as being a nurse?

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<p>Nurses go into their profession expecting to love it. They feel they are called; that nursing is a vocation and not merely a profession. What could be better than making a difference in the life of another person? What other profession could be as rewarding as being a nurse? It’s not until a nurse starts on their first ward, that reality sets in. Charting takes more to complete than a nice, friendly chat with a patient, and doctors and other co-workers can be intimidating. Many nurses have found themselves saying they hate their job. Some bounce from specialty to specialty, </p>

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Lynda Lampert
Lynda is a registered nurse with three years experience on a busy surgical floor in a city hospital. She graduated with an Associates degree in Nursing from Mercyhurst College Northeast in 2007 and lives in Erie, Pennsylvania in the United States. In her work, she took care of patients post operatively from open heart surgery, immediately post-operatively from gastric bypass, gastric banding surgery and post abdominal surgery. She also dealt with patient populations that experienced active chest pain, congestive heart failure, end stage renal disease, uncontrolled diabetes and a variety of other chronic, mental and surgical conditions.
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Sarah Marlow
11 May 2022
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A good reminder that what we do as nurses is worthwhile even if at times we feel underappreciated.
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Bipina Poudel
03 May 2023
Informative
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Carissa Beddows
22 Dec 2020
Good
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Cyndi Lyons
07 Jul 2022
Informative and very helpful
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Jillian Houlahan
02 Nov 2021
Good resource
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Melissa Sinfield
17 Aug 2020
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, now, more than ever, nurses need to implement strategies which can assist to maintain their resilience and avoid stress and burnout.
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Elizabeth Costello
23 Apr 2023
Good reminder
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Sara Whincup
17 Mar 2020
very useful.
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