Nurse Leadership Dumpster Fire

Watch Next: 1:1’s for Large Teams: A Nurse Leader’s Guide to Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcmwXZHFpw

Cindy and Taresa are Master's-prepared and Certified nurse leaders who entered leadership at the height of COVID with minimal resources and support.  They learned a lot of hard lessons the hard way and don’t want others to have to learn them the same way!  In this episode, they discuss a mistake many leaders make without even realizing it.  Tune in to hear what you might be doing to unintentionally degrade trust and buy in without even realizing it, and how to avoid doing it ever again! 

Chapters:

00:00 Chapter 1

01:02 Chapter 2

05:16 Chapter 3

06:49 Chapter 4

08:27 Chapter 5

Watch Next: Difficulties in Leadership; Nurse Supervisor Stress and Burnout https://youtu.be/5ISc7bXwIbw?si=PV6it_Z-8JgRt9xi

Setting a clear vision with your team is essential and without it, you may be fighting an uphill battle.  But how do you even do that?  Cindy and Taresa, Masters prepared and certified nurse leaders with several years of experience walk you through exactly how to do that in this video.  

Chapters

00:00 Chapter 1

06:36 Chapter 2

09:29 Chapter 3

15:55 Chapter 4

19:29 Chapter 5

Watch Next: Difficulties in Leadership; Nurse Supervisor Stress and Burnout https://youtu.be/5ISc7bXwIbw?si=PV6it_Z-8JgRt9xi

Setting a clear vision with your team is essential, and without it, you may be fighting an uphill battle.  But how do you even do that?  Cindy and Taresa, Masters prepared and certified nurse leaders with several years of experience, walk you through exactly how to do that in this video.  

Chapters

00:00 Chapter 1

06:36 Chapter 2

09:29 Chapter 3

15:55 Chapter 4

19:29 Chapter 5

In this episode, we discuss a white paper from the AONL that explores innovative nurse staffing strategies, focusing on acuity-based scheduling, technology integration, and float pool management to improve patient care and staff satisfaction. 

https://youtu.be/REuuR9ImtwQ

AONL 2025 Nurse Staffing Trends Report - https://www.aonl.org/resources/2025-nurse-staffing-trends

Other resources:

AccuStaff Scheduling Software - https://www.accustaff.com

Nurse Leader Competencies - AONL - https://www.aonl.org/resources/nurse-leadership-competencies

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Conference Insights

02:58 Acuity-Based Staffing vs. Ratios

05:57 Technology in Nurse Scheduling

08:50 Challenges in Staffing and Patient Care

11:44 Key Findings from the Article

14:45 Decentralized vs. Centralized Scheduling

17:50 Float Pools and Their Effectiveness

20:33 Balancing Staff Satisfaction and Patient Safety

23:34 Innovative Scheduling Solutions

26:28 Conclusion and Future Considerations

In this episode, we talk about the challenge of landing your first job when you are driven and really want to be a nurse leader. Tune in with us as we talk with Melissa Lavis, who shares her journey from Disneyland to Nursing Leadership. Melissa endured a lot of rejection before she landed her first job. How did she manage those experiences?

Chapters:

00:00 Chapter 1 

03:08 Chapter 2

07:28 Chapter 3

12:14 Chapter 4

25:14 Chapter 5

32:44 Chapter 6

40:01 Chapter 7

Watch Next: ADHD is our SUPERPOWER as Nurse Leaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8fg148RkU

Taresa and Cindy are Master's Prepared and Certified Nurse Leaders who are on a journey to empower other nurse leaders to create dynamic and high-functioning teams that produce improved patient outcomes and happy staff!  In this episode, Cindy and Taresa reflect on hard lessons they have learned when good intentions failed and created bigger problems.  Find out what they would do differently if they had known what they know now. 

In this podcast episode, Taresa and Cindy continue to explore Nurse Leader Burnout and share tips, tricks, sacrifices, and mindsets required to make things work.  Learn how investing in your staff will pay it forward and help you manage your workload.

Watch Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7CGOMY_JQw&t=11s How Nurse Leaders Can Build Resilience after Trauma and Workplace Violence

Reference: 

42% Rule https://www.stkate.edu/academics/healthcare-degrees/nurse-burnout#:~:text=Prioritize%20Physical%20and%20Mental%20Health,challenges%20and%20not%20experience%20burnout.

Watch Next: Keeping the Frontline Perspective: Interview https://youtu.be/Ks8B1q2WMCA?si=oCCK0pBpXhSmF6y5

So you’ve made it through the learning curve of the first two years in a nurse leader position, now what?  Taresa and Cindy, Master’s Prepared and Certified Nurse Leaders walk through all the ways you can end up in the burnout cycle and Hint: It’s not just being overworked.  Tune in to hear some of the lessons they have learned and some surprising research on how to combat the elusive burnout enemy!

References:

42% Rule https://www.stkate.edu/academics/healthcare-degrees/nurse-burnout#:~:text=Prioritize%20Physical%20and%20Mental%20Health,challenges%20and%20not%20experience%20burnout.

Eight Ways Nurses Can Manage a Burnt-Out Leader 

Squellati, R. & Zangaro, G. (2022). Eight ways nurses can manage a burnt-out leader. Nurs Clin North Am. 1 (67-78). doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2021.11.005

Watch Next:  ADHD is our SUPERPOWER as Nurse Leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8fg148RkU&t=3s

In this episode, find out how Taresa and Cindy manage their ADHD traits to help them be successful as successful Nurse Leaders!  Cindy and Taresa are both master's-prepared nurse leaders who have seen some shit, navigated some complicated and challenging barriers, and still found success.  ADHD is only one of the barriers that they have grappled with but it can be a significant challenge if you don’t know how to work with it and not against it!  

If you would like to see any of the tools we have mentioned in this episode, please email [email protected] or [email protected] and we can send you the files we mentioned. 

Article Referenced:

Crook T, McDowall A (2024), "Paradoxical career strengths and successes of ADHD adults: an evolving narrative". Journal of Work-Applied Management, Vol. 16 No. 1 pp. 112–126, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JWAM-05-2023-0048

Keeping the Frontline Nurse Perspective: Interview with Britney Garcia  https://youtu.be/Ks8B1q2WMCA?si=96tuXAp_VMqJp_yh

Have you thought that ADHD was holding you back as a nurse or as a nurse leader?  Well, we’ve reviewed some literature and have a new perspective, tune in and check it out! Check out Cindy and Taresa’s exploration of ADHD in nursing and nurse leadership, and what YOU can take away from that to elevate your OWN leadership skills!

References:

https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/php/adults/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/articles/adhd-across-the-lifetime.html

Registered Nurses : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Crook T, McDowall A (2024), "Paradoxical career strengths and successes of ADHD adults: an evolving narrative". Journal of Work-Applied Management, Vol. 16 No. 1 pp. 112–126, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JWAM-05-2023-0048