September 11, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode, Bonnie shares a simple 5-minute reflection exercise that helps you gain fresh perspective on your career path. Whether you’re an RN, APRN, or nurse leader, this quick practice guides you to notice the moments that bring the most fulfillment—and points you toward nursing job opportunities that truly fit.
Key Takeaways:
- Why clarity doesn’t require hours of career planning
- A 3-step journaling exercise to highlight what energizes you
- How to match your skills with new nursing career opportunities
- The importance of choosing roles you enjoy—not just those you do well
👉 Download the free Nursing Career Growth Roadmap in the show notes to take this exercise further!
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(00:03):
Are you feeling stuck in yourcurrent clinical environment?
Do you want to make a change inyour nursing career, but not
sure what to do next?
Exhausted, burnt out, and maybeeven ready for different
leadership?
I'm Bonnie Meadows, a boardified clinical nurse specialist,
influential leader, careercoach, and wellbeing coach.
(00:24):
Being in the nursing andhealthcare profession since
2004, I have felt stuck andunsure about what was next for
me.
I wanted to be fulfilled in mypurpose, to have a voice at the
table and to be a resource forothers.
I kept telling myself I wantedmore, but didn't have the
direction I needed until I foundclarity and career growth
(00:47):
strategies for experiencednurses like.
Me.
In this podcast, you will findsimple tactical steps that allow
you to gain the clarity you needsolutions for how to grow even
without supportive leadershipand guidelines for setting
boundaries at work so that youcan grow purposefully in your
career as a nurse with agraduate degree who makes a huge
(01:11):
impact in the profession.
So get ready to trade yourscrubs for yoga pants, pop in
those earbuds and let's chat.
Hello everyone.
Welcome back.
I hope all is well with you Iwill say as I'm recording this,
I am getting ready for, MemorialDay weekend.
I'm pretty sure that this willcome out way after Memorial Day
(01:33):
weekend.
But just happy to take the timeto connect with you, through
this podcast and, give you somemore tips on how to grow that
nursing career, how to get someclarity in your career.
So let's get to it.
What would you do if you hadjust five minutes to figure out
(01:53):
your next career move?
Just five.
Like you didn't make itcomplicated, but you just took
five minutes to sit and reallyponder on your nursing career,
your next nursing career move,not when you are transitioning
to one place to another, but.
You sit outside, you getpresent, you pull out a journal,
(02:17):
and you just do a five minuteexercise.
It might take you 10 minutes,but you can do it in five.
I'm gonna share a simple, yetpowerful exercise that can bring
you into clarity.
It can get you at least one ortwo steps, maybe even three
steps closer to clarity in yourcareer.
(02:39):
So I participated in a nursepeer group discussion, about a
professional practice model.
So, I was, selected to be ableto participate.
It was more so like a focusgroup where we were, putting
words into how to develop thisprofessional practice model and
what did it look like, what didit embody and.
(03:01):
One question that came to us, orthat was asked of the group,
made me think about my careerjourney.
And I was asked to think about atime when I felt the most
freedom in my work.
Like when I felt like this istruly, I, I am doing what I was
(03:22):
truly called to do.
Like I was humming.
Like this is it.
And when I thought about it, Ithought about a time when I was
at the bedside.
Now let's be clear.
It is no longer my calling to goback to the bedside.
It's my calling to encouragethose who are at the bedside.
This will unfold as we go intothe podcast.
(03:44):
And some of you may, you know,you know, you're not going back
to the bedside, but this willunfold.
So I'm, I'm going, I digress.
I was a charge nurse and I wasteaching during a code and
managing.
And facilitating a code.
(04:05):
And I see today how itcorrelates with my career path
and my joy.
I love to facilitate andcoordinate projects and classes
and so that's really what thisfive minute exercise is all
about.
It's finding what is it withinnursing, you've had some time.
(04:27):
Within your years to just,you've done this, you've done
that, you have a prospectivethought process of what you
would like to do, what you thinkand believe you would like to
do, as I'm thinking about thisoff the top of my head, you have
those skills that you have done,that you have performed.
(04:48):
Or these moments in times whereyou have, you have done these
things or you've had thisparticular situation and the
role that you played in thatsituation, you felt like, oh, if
I could do this all the time, Iwould be great.
The role that you play, theskills that you used in that
(05:08):
situation.
So we've we're, we're, we'rejuggling that on top of.
Juggling the separate area of,oh, I've had a taste of this
thing.
Not I have skills in this thing,but this is something that I am
(05:28):
very interested in and I'd liketo pursue that thing, whether it
be leadership skills, whether itbe you wanna be a data analyst,
you wanna write articles,whether it be you wanna develop
policy, those are two differentthings, but they both play into
really understanding your nextsteps and getting clarity in
(05:52):
your career.
So I'm gonna give you three tipsthat you can use in your five
minute exercise to really helpto get your wheel spinning with
what.
We will help you to get clarityin your career and lead you into
a little bit more careerdirection.
(06:12):
The first step, when you'resitting down for this five
minute exercise to journal, Iwant you to think of three
moments when you felt fulfilledin your nursing career.
When were there times andmoments of joy, or when you
walked away from the situationfeeling like you made an impact.
Really expand your thoughtprocess with this.
(06:33):
It doesn't always have to be apatient experience story.
It could be helping anothernurse and making a connection.
Or it could be helping a familyor a patient connect a dot.
It could be working withequipment to find a more
efficient way to work.
The work of the nurse faces somany facets of healthcare.
(06:54):
It could be the process ofcompleting a project at work to
implement something new.
It could also be you taking thetime to do research and develop
a full policy and helping toimplement that policy wherever
it may be.
These are just nuggets of thingsyou take for granted that you
(07:16):
do, but these are pieces thatreally brought you joy.
In your work, I'm gonna sharewith you one example just to get
your thoughts going.
I'm gonna go back to theexample, that I shared earlier.
When I was a charge nurse, I wasworking in the C-T-I-C-U.
A patient had come into usstraight from the or I was
(07:37):
working night shift and we knewthe patient was not doing well
after surgery.
And so the patient came upprobably around 11:00 PM We were
giving blood products and on Maxpressors.
The surgeon pretty much told us,this will likely not end well.
(07:58):
As they know because they'vebeen working on the body now,
God knows all.
So all things could have beenreversed.
Where we have the privilege andthe honor to do our best to
support God in that work and todo what we need to do as far as
evidence-based practice isconcerned.
(08:18):
So while doing that, we checkedto labs, giving blood products.
Doing all the things, or doinghashtag all the things.
I was one of the moreexperienced nurses there that
night with about four years ofexperience.
One of the nurses working withus, this was her first time
(08:38):
being in a code.
Now, if you are a nurse who'snever worked in the ICU, one
thing I can tell you about theICU, and a good working team is
that codes are not frantic.
They just run smoothly becauseyou're used to that environment.
You're there to help peoplerecover, but you're also there
(09:01):
to help save lives not thatyou're not saving lives on the
floor, but in the ICU, the codesare much different than on the
floor.
And so.
The newer nurses was what shewas, she was in there, she was
helping us to help run what manywould call a slow code.
So we weren't, there wasn'tmuch.
(09:22):
We were escalating, but we weretreating the patient and I was
teaching as we wereimplementing.
It was one of the most rewardingexperiences of my career to
connect the dots for the newC-T-I-C-U nurse calmly.
That nurse is now A-C-R-N-A notthat I had anything to do with
(09:45):
all of that, but I am thankfuland blessed to have had the
privilege and honor to nurtureher in that moment, which could
have been a.in her, in hercareer.
Um, but that moment I had theopportunity to help her
understand what was going on,why we were doing what we were
(10:08):
doing, and then give herinstruction we were literally
loading up a, level one rapidinfuser.
If you don't know what a rapidinfuser means, it is something
that we, is a machine that weuse, to put.
IV fluids and blood products inquickly, like within 10 seconds
(10:30):
to keep the patient alive.
'cause as we were giving, it wascoming out and you have to try
to match the volume given.
Otherwise you're working frombehind and you're in a
hypovolemic state.
You're already hypovolemic, butyou gotta replace what's coming
out so that you can get to anormal emmic state.
That moment, taught me how muchI loved about nursing.
(10:51):
How much I loved aboutmentoring, how much I loved
about connecting the dots andtraining in real time fast
forward, I entered into a role Ithought I loved, but it took me
further away from theopportunities to mentor nurses,
and that's when I got clarityabout what my work needed to
(11:12):
incorporate going forward.
So I had that moment.
That moment was probably back in2011, maybe 2010, and I left the
bedside shortly after that.
And then I started getting intoother roles.
But those roles eventually tookme so far away from nursing, and
(11:35):
I was at a turning point in atoxic environment.
Where I thought to myself, thisis not what I wanted to do.
I actually liked the work that Iwas doing.
The environment enlightenedthings to help me see and
evaluate.
Is this something I wanna dolong term or what is it that's
(11:57):
really giving me joy?
This is giving me a little bitof prestige.
Some experience, that was therole where I was having
conversations with system CMOsand presidents of organizations,
and that's all great and good,and I can use those.
I'm using those skills now.
(12:18):
But it was that position where Ithought it was a dream position
was literally just a skillbuilder position.
And so I was at a crossroads ofwhat am I gonna do next?
And I had to go back to thatthought process of what is
missing and what is it that Ireally loved to do?
(12:38):
One of the things was mentornurses.
That's not everything, but oneof the things was mentor and
encourage nurses, and I gottenfar away from that.
And so that, number one, I hopethat was helpful for you, but
think of three moments when youfelt fulfilled in your nursing
career.
Number two is identify theskills you used in those
(12:59):
moments.
Thinking about those threemoments, list the skills you
used in that moment.
So in that moment, inC-T-I-C-U-I use skills of
skillful communication,providing clear, direct and
clear feedback without bullying.
Skills of facilitation andinfluence to get the team going
in the right direction.
I was also giving strategy bylooking at the big picture and
(13:23):
understanding what needed tocome next.
I was using critical thinkingskills.
I was problem solverextraordinaire, and that is what
I love to do.
I love to help solve problemsand encourage the people I work
with.
To go in the right direction.
(13:46):
Number three, we're wrapping itup.
So take those skills you'veidentified next, look for roles
that allow you to do more ofthat.
Now that you have that list,analyze it.
What roles do you know of thatwould match this role?
You may not see it.
That might be something that youcan probably try and chat GPT,
(14:09):
put it in chat, GPT and say, Ihave these skills.
What nursing jobs do you feelwill fulfill these skills?
You could do that search withthose words for jobs that may
match the description.
One thing I wanna caution youabout is when you're looking at
(14:29):
those skills, you want to bemindful that you're not choosing
skills that you are good at, butdon't like to do regularly.
Don't we do that?
Uh, we know what we can do well,which gives us confidence, but
we also know what we wanna growin and what we can, what we'd
(14:51):
like to grow to be.
We have an idea.
We might say we are clueless,but we, we have an idea of what
we would like to grow to be, andwe might not, but we might not
be able to put a name on it justyet.
Don't get yourself in troubledoing something that, yeah,
you're good at, but you don'tlike to do that's not gonna get
you anywhere'cause then you'rein misery.
(15:12):
Most people would say that ifthey sat in a classroom with me,
they'd say I'm a great teacher.
That may be so, but I have nodesire at this time to be
nursing faculty That does notdraw me in or bring me any
clarity.
It's like, okay, well yeah, Icould teach.
(15:33):
Do I like to teach?
Yeah, I like to teach.
I also like to problem solve andin that situation, as a charge
nurse, I was working as aproblem solver.
So I teach in other ways.
I find other ways to teach whatI don't like.
Is all of the stuff that comesalong with teaching.
Let's just be real.
(15:54):
I may not be one of those peoplethat likes teaching in a
structured setting.
But I do like to teach.
I do like to educate, and thereare so many ways that I can do
that as a nurse outside of beingnursing faculty.
Now, there are some who love theadministrative piece of it and
love being in the classroom,whether it be online or
(16:16):
somewhere else.
And I say walk in it.
I say, walk in it.
That's just about the same assomebody who loves to do l and d
and I like cardiac walk in it.
Neither is wrong, neither iswrong.
And so I just wanna encourageyou to find what you love and do
(16:37):
more of that.
Yes, you're going to find roleswhere there's much of it that
you love, and there's some of itthat you're just like, I can
leave that on the table.
I can leave that on the table.
It's not gonna be an allencompassing, like, we're just
not all gonna get everythingthat we want, especially when
we're working for someone else.
(16:58):
Your goal is to find that role.
That allows you to use thoseskills that truly bring you joy.
Find leadership that willsupport you in that, and then
find other ways outside of workto maybe do some other things
that you like to do, but youcan't find a job that will let
(17:20):
you do that thing.
That's your goal.
So as I wrap up, I want you totake five minutes and work
through this exercise to seewhat you come up with.
Here are the steps for your nextcareer move.
Think of three moments when youfelt fulfilled in your nursing
career.
Identify the skills you areusing in those moments.
(17:42):
Look for roles that allow you todo more of what you love.
If you need a bit of structureto pull this together download
my nursing Career growthroadmap.
It's A PDF document that givesyou a structured way to go
through this exercise.
Click on the link in my shownotes.
It will ask you to sign up formy email list, and then from
(18:03):
there you will get the downloadand it will guide you through
this practice.
And then come back, listen tothis episode.
If you know another nurse whohas that question of, I just
don't know what I wanna do next,have them to go through this
exercise, share this podcastwith them, get them to sign up
for the roadmap.
(18:24):
It will help them.
See you next time.
I hope you enjoyed today'sepisode.
If so, would you take 30 secondsand share it with another nurse
who may be unsure of where to gonext in their career or maybe
need some career clarity?
Also, please leave a quickreview for the show on Apple
(18:46):
Podcast.
It brings me so much joy and somuch encouragement to know this
podcast is helping you now goget the career you want and not
the one you settle for.
And I'll meet you back here nextThursday for another episode.
See you soon.
Are you feeling stuck in yourcurrent clinical environment?
Do you want to make a change inyour nursing career, but not
sure what to do next?
Exhausted, burnt out, and maybeeven ready for different
leadership?
I'm Bonnie Meadows, a boardified clinical nurse specialist,
influential leader, careercoach, and wellbeing coach.
(00:24):
Being in the nursing andhealthcare profession since
2004, I have felt stuck andunsure about what was next for
me.
I wanted to be fulfilled in mypurpose, to have a voice at the
table and to be a resource forothers.
I kept telling myself I wantedmore, but didn't have the
direction I needed until I foundclarity and career growth
(00:47):
strategies for experiencednurses like.
Me.
In this podcast, you will findsimple tactical steps that allow
you to gain the clarity you needsolutions for how to grow even
without supportive leadershipand guidelines for setting
boundaries at work so that youcan grow purposefully in your
career as a nurse with agraduate degree who makes a huge
(01:11):
impact in the profession.
So get ready to trade yourscrubs for yoga pants, pop in
those earbuds and let's chat.
Hello everyone.
Welcome back.
I hope all is well with you Iwill say as I'm recording this,
I am getting ready for, MemorialDay weekend.
I'm pretty sure that this willcome out way after Memorial Day
(01:33):
weekend.
But just happy to take the timeto connect with you, through
this podcast and, give you somemore tips on how to grow that
nursing career, how to get someclarity in your career.
So let's get to it.
What would you do if you hadjust five minutes to figure out
(01:53):
your next career move?
Just five.
Like you didn't make itcomplicated, but you just took
five minutes to sit and reallyponder on your nursing career,
your next nursing career move,not when you are transitioning
to one place to another, but.
You sit outside, you getpresent, you pull out a journal,
(02:17):
and you just do a five minuteexercise.
It might take you 10 minutes,but you can do it in five.
I'm gonna share a simple, yetpowerful exercise that can bring
you into clarity.
It can get you at least one ortwo steps, maybe even three
steps closer to clarity in yourcareer.
(02:39):
So I participated in a nursepeer group discussion, about a
professional practice model.
So, I was, selected to be ableto participate.
It was more so like a focusgroup where we were, putting
words into how to develop thisprofessional practice model and
what did it look like, what didit embody and.
(03:01):
One question that came to us, orthat was asked of the group,
made me think about my careerjourney.
And I was asked to think about atime when I felt the most
freedom in my work.
Like when I felt like this istruly, I, I am doing what I was
(03:22):
truly called to do.
Like I was humming.
Like this is it.
And when I thought about it, Ithought about a time when I was
at the bedside.
Now let's be clear.
It is no longer my calling to goback to the bedside.
It's my calling to encouragethose who are at the bedside.
This will unfold as we go intothe podcast.
(03:44):
And some of you may, you know,you know, you're not going back
to the bedside, but this willunfold.
So I'm, I'm going, I digress.
I was a charge nurse and I wasteaching during a code and
managing.
And facilitating a code.
(04:05):
And I see today how itcorrelates with my career path
and my joy.
I love to facilitate andcoordinate projects and classes
and so that's really what thisfive minute exercise is all
about.
It's finding what is it withinnursing, you've had some time.
(04:27):
Within your years to just,you've done this, you've done
that, you have a prospectivethought process of what you
would like to do, what you thinkand believe you would like to
do, as I'm thinking about thisoff the top of my head, you have
those skills that you have done,that you have performed.
(04:48):
Or these moments in times whereyou have, you have done these
things or you've had thisparticular situation and the
role that you played in thatsituation, you felt like, oh, if
I could do this all the time, Iwould be great.
The role that you play, theskills that you used in that
(05:08):
situation.
So we've we're, we're, we'rejuggling that on top of.
Juggling the separate area of,oh, I've had a taste of this
thing.
Not I have skills in this thing,but this is something that I am
(05:28):
very interested in and I'd liketo pursue that thing, whether it
be leadership skills, whether itbe you wanna be a data analyst,
you wanna write articles,whether it be you wanna develop
policy, those are two differentthings, but they both play into
really understanding your nextsteps and getting clarity in
(05:52):
your career.
So I'm gonna give you three tipsthat you can use in your five
minute exercise to really helpto get your wheel spinning with
what.
We will help you to get clarityin your career and lead you into
a little bit more careerdirection.
(06:12):
The first step, when you'resitting down for this five
minute exercise to journal, Iwant you to think of three
moments when you felt fulfilledin your nursing career.
When were there times andmoments of joy, or when you
walked away from the situationfeeling like you made an impact.
Really expand your thoughtprocess with this.
(06:33):
It doesn't always have to be apatient experience story.
It could be helping anothernurse and making a connection.
Or it could be helping a familyor a patient connect a dot.
It could be working withequipment to find a more
efficient way to work.
The work of the nurse faces somany facets of healthcare.
(06:54):
It could be the process ofcompleting a project at work to
implement something new.
It could also be you taking thetime to do research and develop
a full policy and helping toimplement that policy wherever
it may be.
These are just nuggets of thingsyou take for granted that you
(07:16):
do, but these are pieces thatreally brought you joy.
In your work, I'm gonna sharewith you one example just to get
your thoughts going.
I'm gonna go back to theexample, that I shared earlier.
When I was a charge nurse, I wasworking in the C-T-I-C-U.
A patient had come into usstraight from the or I was
(07:37):
working night shift and we knewthe patient was not doing well
after surgery.
And so the patient came upprobably around 11:00 PM We were
giving blood products and on Maxpressors.
The surgeon pretty much told us,this will likely not end well.
(07:58):
As they know because they'vebeen working on the body now,
God knows all.
So all things could have beenreversed.
Where we have the privilege andthe honor to do our best to
support God in that work and todo what we need to do as far as
evidence-based practice isconcerned.
(08:18):
So while doing that, we checkedto labs, giving blood products.
Doing all the things, or doinghashtag all the things.
I was one of the moreexperienced nurses there that
night with about four years ofexperience.
One of the nurses working withus, this was her first time
(08:38):
being in a code.
Now, if you are a nurse who'snever worked in the ICU, one
thing I can tell you about theICU, and a good working team is
that codes are not frantic.
They just run smoothly becauseyou're used to that environment.
You're there to help peoplerecover, but you're also there
(09:01):
to help save lives not thatyou're not saving lives on the
floor, but in the ICU, the codesare much different than on the
floor.
And so.
The newer nurses was what shewas, she was in there, she was
helping us to help run what manywould call a slow code.
So we weren't, there wasn'tmuch.
(09:22):
We were escalating, but we weretreating the patient and I was
teaching as we wereimplementing.
It was one of the most rewardingexperiences of my career to
connect the dots for the newC-T-I-C-U nurse calmly.
That nurse is now A-C-R-N-A notthat I had anything to do with
(09:45):
all of that, but I am thankfuland blessed to have had the
privilege and honor to nurtureher in that moment, which could
have been a.in her, in hercareer.
Um, but that moment I had theopportunity to help her
understand what was going on,why we were doing what we were
(10:08):
doing, and then give herinstruction we were literally
loading up a, level one rapidinfuser.
If you don't know what a rapidinfuser means, it is something
that we, is a machine that weuse, to put.
IV fluids and blood products inquickly, like within 10 seconds
(10:30):
to keep the patient alive.
'cause as we were giving, it wascoming out and you have to try
to match the volume given.
Otherwise you're working frombehind and you're in a
hypovolemic state.
You're already hypovolemic, butyou gotta replace what's coming
out so that you can get to anormal emmic state.
That moment, taught me how muchI loved about nursing.
(10:51):
How much I loved aboutmentoring, how much I loved
about connecting the dots andtraining in real time fast
forward, I entered into a role Ithought I loved, but it took me
further away from theopportunities to mentor nurses,
and that's when I got clarityabout what my work needed to
(11:12):
incorporate going forward.
So I had that moment.
That moment was probably back in2011, maybe 2010, and I left the
bedside shortly after that.
And then I started getting intoother roles.
But those roles eventually tookme so far away from nursing, and
(11:35):
I was at a turning point in atoxic environment.
Where I thought to myself, thisis not what I wanted to do.
I actually liked the work that Iwas doing.
The environment enlightenedthings to help me see and
evaluate.
Is this something I wanna dolong term or what is it that's
(11:57):
really giving me joy?
This is giving me a little bitof prestige.
Some experience, that was therole where I was having
conversations with system CMOsand presidents of organizations,
and that's all great and good,and I can use those.
I'm using those skills now.
(12:18):
But it was that position where Ithought it was a dream position
was literally just a skillbuilder position.
And so I was at a crossroads ofwhat am I gonna do next?
And I had to go back to thatthought process of what is
missing and what is it that Ireally loved to do?
(12:38):
One of the things was mentornurses.
That's not everything, but oneof the things was mentor and
encourage nurses, and I gottenfar away from that.
And so that, number one, I hopethat was helpful for you, but
think of three moments when youfelt fulfilled in your nursing
career.
Number two is identify theskills you used in those
(12:59):
moments.
Thinking about those threemoments, list the skills you
used in that moment.
So in that moment, inC-T-I-C-U-I use skills of
skillful communication,providing clear, direct and
clear feedback without bullying.
Skills of facilitation andinfluence to get the team going
in the right direction.
I was also giving strategy bylooking at the big picture and
(13:23):
understanding what needed tocome next.
I was using critical thinkingskills.
I was problem solverextraordinaire, and that is what
I love to do.
I love to help solve problemsand encourage the people I work
with.
To go in the right direction.
(13:46):
Number three, we're wrapping itup.
So take those skills you'veidentified next, look for roles
that allow you to do more ofthat.
Now that you have that list,analyze it.
What roles do you know of thatwould match this role?
You may not see it.
That might be something that youcan probably try and chat GPT,
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put it in chat, GPT and say, Ihave these skills.
What nursing jobs do you feelwill fulfill these skills?
You could do that search withthose words for jobs that may
match the description.
One thing I wanna caution youabout is when you're looking at
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those skills, you want to bemindful that you're not choosing
skills that you are good at, butdon't like to do regularly.
Don't we do that?
Uh, we know what we can do well,which gives us confidence, but
we also know what we wanna growin and what we can, what we'd
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like to grow to be.
We have an idea.
We might say we are clueless,but we, we have an idea of what
we would like to grow to be, andwe might not, but we might not
be able to put a name on it justyet.
Don't get yourself in troubledoing something that, yeah,
you're good at, but you don'tlike to do that's not gonna get
you anywhere'cause then you'rein misery.
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Most people would say that ifthey sat in a classroom with me,
they'd say I'm a great teacher.
That may be so, but I have nodesire at this time to be
nursing faculty That does notdraw me in or bring me any
clarity.
It's like, okay, well yeah, Icould teach.
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Do I like to teach?
Yeah, I like to teach.
I also like to problem solve andin that situation, as a charge
nurse, I was working as aproblem solver.
So I teach in other ways.
I find other ways to teach whatI don't like.
Is all of the stuff that comesalong with teaching.
Let's just be real.
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I may not be one of those peoplethat likes teaching in a
structured setting.
But I do like to teach.
I do like to educate, and thereare so many ways that I can do
that as a nurse outside of beingnursing faculty.
Now, there are some who love theadministrative piece of it and
love being in the classroom,whether it be online or
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somewhere else.
And I say walk in it.
I say, walk in it.
That's just about the same assomebody who loves to do l and d
and I like cardiac walk in it.
Neither is wrong, neither iswrong.
And so I just wanna encourageyou to find what you love and do
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more of that.
Yes, you're going to find roleswhere there's much of it that
you love, and there's some of itthat you're just like, I can
leave that on the table.
I can leave that on the table.
It's not gonna be an allencompassing, like, we're just
not all gonna get everythingthat we want, especially when
we're working for someone else.
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Your goal is to find that role.
That allows you to use thoseskills that truly bring you joy.
Find leadership that willsupport you in that, and then
find other ways outside of workto maybe do some other things
that you like to do, but youcan't find a job that will let
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you do that thing.
That's your goal.
So as I wrap up, I want you totake five minutes and work
through this exercise to seewhat you come up with.
Here are the steps for your nextcareer move.
Think of three moments when youfelt fulfilled in your nursing
career.
Identify the skills you areusing in those moments.
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Look for roles that allow you todo more of what you love.
If you need a bit of structureto pull this together download
my nursing Career growthroadmap.
It's A PDF document that givesyou a structured way to go
through this exercise.
Click on the link in my shownotes.
It will ask you to sign up formy email list, and then from
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there you will get the downloadand it will guide you through
this practice.
And then come back, listen tothis episode.
If you know another nurse whohas that question of, I just
don't know what I wanna do next,have them to go through this
exercise, share this podcastwith them, get them to sign up
for the roadmap.
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It will help them.
See you next time.
I hope you enjoyed today'sepisode.
If so, would you take 30 secondsand share it with another nurse
who may be unsure of where to gonext in their career or maybe
need some career clarity?
Also, please leave a quickreview for the show on Apple
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Podcast.
It brings me so much joy and somuch encouragement to know this
podcast is helping you now goget the career you want and not
the one you settle for.
And I'll meet you back here nextThursday for another episode.
See you soon.
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