Casie Lamp has been a nurse for nearly 20 years. She has been working in the ICU at a Seattle hospital through the pandemic and will discuss the toll that it is taking on herself and her colleagues. Casie talks about the burnout that she has faced, what it took to overcome that and now she is helping to prevent other nurses from getting to that point. There is even an enema story in this episode!

Kim Klein, an RN and Functional Medicine Practitioner, moved from nursing school, straight into a job in the OR. Was that the right move for a new grad? It turned out to be for Kim, but it was met with a lot of stress and eventually feelings of burnout. The OR is a different animal and isn’t for everyone. Kim talks about how she made it through the first couple of years, and came out on the other side as a sought out mentor for new nurses.

Burnout and stress can cause physical and emotional ailments to manifest over time. Can we heal ourselves by changing our mindset and self-care? That is exactly what Lisa Dunlap did! Lisa is an NP that specializes in geriatric care and teaches tools for resiliency and mindful self-compassion.

Taking care of ourselves before caring for others. Why is that so hard to do as a nurse? Join us on this show as we talk with RN and nurse practitioner Jeri Cates, also a certified Feminine Power, Transformational Life Coach, to talk about self-love, self-care, and self-compassion.