Ep. 45// The Power of Perseverance: Unlocking the Next Step in Your Nursing Career [Replay]

This podcast was one of the top 10 podcast episodes of 2024. I am bringing it back as a replay for your enjoyment as I work on new episodes for 2025. 

In this week’s episode, Bonnie Meadows encourages nurses who feel stuck, uncertain, or overwhelmed in their career journey. 

She reminds us to press forward, stay committed to our goals, and believe in the right path. Drawing from her personal experience and passion for helping nurses, Bonnie reflects on the importance of pursuing clarity and fulfillment in your nursing career, even if the journey feels unconventional.

Bonnie also shares why she developed this community for nurses seeking more from their careers and how taking intentional steps toward clarity can help you discover your unique gifts, skills, and opportunities for impact.

**Key Takeaways:**
Trust Your Path: Everyone has a unique vision for their career, and while others may have opinions, the direction that resonates with your heart is worth pursuing.

Growth Through Experience: As you gain experience in nursing, your career goals may shift, but that’s part of the journey toward clarity and impact.

The Power of Self-Awareness: Bonnie emphasizes the importance of knowing what you uniquely bring to the table as a nurse and how that can help you articulate your value and create an impact.

Don't Settle for Being Stuck: Nurses often feel "in motion but not moving forward." Strategic action is key to creating the career you truly desire.

Impact and Flexibility are Possible: You can find both flexibility and fulfillment in your career, and Bonnie’s message reminds us that success is attainable with perseverance and strategic action.

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Episode Transcript

(00:04):
Welcome to the Ambitious NursePodcast, where I provide tips,
tools, and resources for theexperienced nurse to put in your
career bag to help you be abetter person, a better leader,
a better professional, and mostof all, a better nurse.
I'm your host Bonnie Meadows, acareer coach and a clinical care

(00:25):
specialist with over 18 years ofexperience in healthcare and
nurse.
It's my passion to helpexperienced nurses develop their
careers to impact health careand their communities.
Hey, I hope all is well with youtoday.

(00:45):
This week.
I wanted to give you a quickword of encouragement.
And remind you to keep going.
Keep pressing forward.
What you desire for your careercan truly happen.
I am a living witness of it.
And I don't want anyone todiscourage you from the path in

(01:10):
which you believe in your heart.
Is the best path for you.
Every one.
Has an idea of what you shouldbe doing for your career.
But you have in your heart, whatis truly best sometimes.
What we have in our heart forright now might not be.

(01:32):
The most ideal.
Or it might be something thatwill lead you to something else
you didn't even plan for I justwanted to tell you to keep
going, keep pressing forward.
The answer is near.
It's right there in front ofyou.

(01:53):
When you're coming into nursing,you mainly have an idea of what
you want to do.
And then as you grow, Or getmore experience, that, what you
originally came in for is notwhat you want to do, or it is
what you want to do, but you'rehaving a hard time figuring out
how to bridge that gap.

(02:13):
believe everyone.
can have joy in their nursingcareers even working in the
hospital.
I believe that everyone has anopportunity to, if you, if that
is what you are called to do, ifthat's what you're pulled to do.
To make an impact.
And so I just wanted to stop byand share Why I decided to

(02:37):
develop this community.
Back in 2015.
I had gone through severalroles.
in healthcare outside ofnursing.
I was in the middle of it.
by the time I'd gotten to 2017,I decided it was time for me to

(02:57):
go back to nursing.
Because I learned so much andtaken such an unconventional
role.
I had finally gotten to theplace of knowing how to get to a
place of impact.
growing from there and learningfrom there.
Nurses have so much to offer tohealthcare and I want to help

(03:21):
you.
Grow and blossom figuring outwhat makes you unique and what
you bring to the table?
I want to help you articulatethat.
And grow that muscle to say,these are my skills, this is
what I want to build.
And this is how I want to makean impact.
you don't have to have all ofthe answers right now But I

(03:44):
desire to help you move towardsthe opening of the eyes.
Every time you take an action,it brings more clarity to how
you will make that impact.
I believe that nurses.
We're hiding.
Some of us were held back by ourfears.

(04:05):
some of us, are just doingthings that don't even matter.
They don't even matter.
Like we were working we'reinaction, but we're in motion
in, in, in place.
So I want you to be in motion,making sure.
that move you're making isstrategic.

(04:27):
Your career.
What you want to do to how youwant to do it, to what really
lights your fire as a nurse andwhere you can make the biggest
impact.
I hope.
That connects with you today.
I wanted to share why isimportant for me as a nurse to

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see other nurses grow.
It brings me joy to help otherpeople problem solve through
what They bring to the table.
The skillset they are uniquelycreated to do brings me joy.
That is where I believe I makesome of my impact.
The other impact that I make is.

(05:10):
In other areas, but it all workstogether.
I bring all of those skills hereto the table to say, here's what
you and here's how you can doit.
Every situation is not a cookiecutter situation because you're
unique.
Just like our patients, we'reall unique and will be doing
something different.
Even if you don't see what youlike.

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Right now in front of you.
It's either already out there.
Or someone's trying to developit.
So don't give up on yourself.
Don't give up on your dream tobe successful, to make an
impact, to work in area offlexibility.
And joy which.
deep down your heart.

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Is available for you.
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!