Nanette Nuessle, MD, or Dr. Nan as she is affectionately known to patients and colleagues, has led an exciting life as a frontline Pediatrician providing excellent care to patients for over 30 years. She has spent the last half of her career giving back to rural areas that are short staffed. More recently, as a Pediatric Hospitalist she has concentrated on her strengths: stabilization of critically ill infants and children, acute airway management, and attendance at high-risk deliveries.

Dr. Nan also runs a coaching company, Beat Down Burnout, which has a unique process of communication skills and relationship building, allowing healthcare organizations to improve staff retention, increase patient safety, and reduce risk management. This helps both the organization, and their staff find opportunities and learn new ways to build trust and fight to prevent burnout.

In this episode, we explore her experience with bullying as a student and where she sees it happening today, how she turned around a toxic situation by learning the values of her colleague and used that information to change the conversation, and her recommendations for those interested in doing locums medical work.  We discuss what has worked for her to help with both the intuitional causes and the personal causes of burnout. 

Take home points/Pearls:

1. Know other people's values. 

2. Anyone can be a leader- lead from where you are.

3. You can’t pour from an empty pot.

Dr Nan invites you to learn your own code: My.Bankcode.com/beat-burnout