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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? How do you choose to optimize the nutrition that you feed to your body every day? Pay attention to what you're feeding your nursing career. Ask yourself the following questions: How do I feed my nursing career? What is my career asking of me?

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The Continuum of Nurse Career Growth

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Especially at a young age, prior to professional training or advanced education, work is often a utilitarian exercise, while it can also feed our sense of pride and purpose and, perhaps, aspirations for more. Water and feed your nursing career with conscious creativity and attention, and it will feed you from the inside out.

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Your Nursing Career Mitochondria

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

A nursing career needs a great deal of feeding and watering; there are so many moving parts, and there's a lot to do in order to keep them all happy and flourishing. What impetus, desires, goals, or motivations drive you forward? If you need to stoke the fire of your nursing career, the spark cannot be created in a vacuum.

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Showing Appreciation of Your Loved One’s Caregiver

Accessible Home Health Care

Many cultures believe that the best way to show love is through feeding someone. Some things to consider for a self-care basket are bath bombs, bath oils, candles, snacks, activities such as their favorite magazine or puzzle book, a book to read, or other comfort items such as socks.

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The Three R's of Nursing

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

In Victorian times, nurses were often seen as "loose women" and "opium users" with poor morals, gallivanting with doctors when they should have been home in the kitchen baking cookies, feeding babies, and ministering to their husbands' needs. He has contributed chapters to a number of books related to the nursing profession.

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The Quixotic Nurse

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Choosing Our Battles We nurses have lives to live, families to feed, children to raise, and loved ones to care for. Are there behaviors, practices, or beliefs that just have to change? Do your colleagues see change as impossible; do they see your vision as unrealistic and doomed to failure?

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Mindset is Everything in Your Nursing Career and Beyond

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Photo by Eric Ward on Unsplash.com Most of us need to work in order to put food on the table; and whether we're living through a pandemic like COVID-19 or times of social unrest like the growing Black Lives Matter movement in response to police brutality, the need to feed, clothe, and support our families doesn't change.

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