Your Next Shift: A Nursing Career Podcast

3 Reasons Why Nurses Should Embrace Burnout To my own surprise, I actually had already written to this topic last year. In an article titled, “3 Reasons Why Nurses Should Embrace Burnout“, I provided the nurses reading with some of the reasons that burnout can actually support us nurses and the nursing profession overall. You can read the entire post, but just for a quick recap here… the 3 reasons are: Burnout helps you grow. Burnout allows you to help others. Burnout propels you to your passion. Pretty cool stuff, right? OK, so this post will not cover the above said reasons again. However, what I do want to share is some parts of my “Stop Nurse Burnout” book in order to help you understand that burnout really does have a highest and best use. Here’s more on how nursing burnout is good for you. Burnout Marks the Normal Transitions in Life It seems that people don’t often get their act together without burnout. Burnout marks the place where you have followed someone else’s path long enough that your body is