The Empowered Nurse Podcast

This week, Lacey is sitting down with Diana Page, ACNP-BC. She has worked as a nurse practitioner for 12 years in both inpatient and outpatient neurology and as an RN prior to that in the family practice arena. Diana is burnout survivor turned burnout educator as well as a nurse and NP Mentor and clinician wellbeing advocate. She started Selfcare Catalyst to help those around her avoid burnout and find the spark in their day-to-day life. Her signature mentorship program has supported both new and veteran nurses in warding off burnout, finding better work life integration, and using tools to leave work at work.  

Lacey and Diana discuss:

• Core pillars of burnout and the many different ways it can show up
• Compassion fatigue
• Acute vs chronic burnout
• Why it’s critical to prioritizing and nurture yourself as a nurse
• Tangible tips and advice for nurses that are experiencing burnout
• Therapy and other helpful resources specific to nurses
• And so much more

Diana is also a speaker and mom of two and is passionate about connecting with exhausted clinicians looking for more joy and fulfillment in their lives. 

Connect with Diana:

https://selfcarecatalyst.com/

https://instagram.com/catalystforselfcare

6 Secrets To Setting Healthy Boundaries

This week Lacey is chatting with Brittany Stoeckel. Brittany is an ICU Nurse Practitioner who has been on a self-care and personal growth journey since she began her career and loves guiding and assisting others in theirs. After more than 15 years of critical care nursing and yoga personal practice, Brittany completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training at Beaumont School of Yoga Therapy, one of the only hospital-based yoga teacher training programs in the country. She loves teaching both in clinical practice and on the mat. 

Lacey and Brittany discuss:

• Her personal journey into self-nurturing and yoga
• The learn, grow, show method
• Why she intends to be a lifelong teacher AND learner
• Where systematic change begins and why you shouldn’t be coughing on a corporation to change
• Money mindset and understanding your finances
• Tangible lifestyle and mindset practices you can start implementing today
• Examining unconscious beliefs
• Burnout and more

Brittany hosts virtual and in person yoga retreats for nurses as well as mindset coaching and whole body health coaching.

Costa Rica Retreat for Nurses | Text RETREAT +1 (973) 310-6356 to learn more or visit https://theempowerednurse.org/costa-rica

Connect with Brittany:

https://www.britstoeckel.com/

Yoga and Mindset for Nurses Facebook group

www.instagram.com/britstoeckel

In this episode, Lacey is sitting down for a coffee chat with her fellow nursing school grad and friend, Angela. Angela is an Emergency Nurse at one of the busiest hospitals in the nation and she has a lot of experience beyond the bedside - from dealing with a mass exodus of employees (pre-pandemic) and then stepping up from the challenges that arose from that. She also talks about her personal journey why she left a career in the music industry to become a nurse.

Lacey and Angela discuss their favorite things about being a nurse, what needs to change in the profession, advice for new nurses entering the profession, the importance of focusing on the good things, nurse culture, what it means to triage the noise, and much more! 

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Welcome back to the Empowered Nurse Podcast! In this episode Lacey is going over what you can expect from this season of the podcast and sharing her current takes on nursing. She talks about what’s going on in the media and why it’s not an accurate representation of what nursing is, the biggest struggles and challenges she’s seeing with new nurses right now, why we need to be okay with some on the job learning, and seeking connection and community all while keeping it realistic. Get ready for some realistic optimism, motivation, and new mindset hacks for your empowered nurse journey.

Learn More:

Get on the Empowered Nurse Mentorship Waitlist for Winter of 2021

Receive daily doses of inspiration and motivation by texting +1 (973) 310-6356

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This bonus episode was originally shared on the Thriving Joy Podcast with Katie Carroll. Katie interviews Lacey who shares her story and journey to becoming a nurse and nurse mentor, the beauty and uniqueness of being a nurse, building confidence, and more. Katie and Lacey also discuss how nursing has changed in the last 20+ years, networking and community building, why having a life, priorities and focuses outside of your career is important, and much more! 

Lacey recently took a social media detox consisting of a week off of all social platforms and was able to gain some great insights. In this episode she shares those insights, what she learned about herself, and why you may want to try a social media detox yourself!

Lacey shares on:

• Ways to let go of content that doesn’t serve you
• Questioning our own thoughts and beliefs and where they come from (i.e. our they our own or do they come from social media influence)
• The feeling of guilt that may come up as a nurse on social media
• Comparison
• Nurse gaslighting

If you feel traumatized in any way by things you see on social media, get stuck in a rut of scrolling, feel guilty about yourself after consuming content, or it’s become habitual to go to certain apps on your phone when you have free time, it may be time to consider a social media detox! AND, remember, what is portrayed in the media (both mainstream and social) is not always the full picture. In fact, it rarely is! Don’t allow what you see to scare you away from your profession or your life.

In this episode, Lacey shares a personal experience that led her down the path of better understanding delegation to do it more effectively. Delegation is not something new nurses are taught and is oftentimes one of the biggest challenges she sees for her mentees so she wanted to dive deeper into the subject. Lacey also shares how communication plays a critical role in delegation, who and how to delegate to if you don’t have nursing assistants on your floor, and creating a team camaraderie.

Today Lacey is talking all about how to build relationships with providers as a new nurse. Working with providers can all be really intimidating when first starting out as nurses but the truth is they really need you just as much, if not more, than you need them! Lacey shares her best tips and practices for shifting your mindset when talking to physicians and gaining comfort in building rapport and relationships with your team so that you can give the best patient care possible! 

Topics include:

• Perspective shift, realizing providers are humans too 
• How to deal with confrontation
• Ways to build rapport with providers
• When to escalate or report a negative experience with a provider
• Using the SBAR system (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) to communicate 
• And more! 

Remember - they are your teammates that have been training differently from you! You are smart and worthy of sitting at the table with any provider! What you bring is important and they need your assessments and skills there, too!

Lacey recently polled her Instagram audience on mental health and the data was quite interesting. About 2000 people voted and 79% of those people stated that they experience anxiety frequently yet only 18% said they seek out therapy for their anxiety. After diving a little deeper she found that the reason why the number of those seeking out therapy was so low was due to three main reasons; cost, unsure of how to find a good therapist, or social shame. 

This week Lacey shares:

• The start of her personal therapy journey
• Resources that may be available to you (through your school, employer, public, etc.)
• Ways to find a therapist that fits your needs (cost, 
• Why you should prioritize your mental health
• The trial and error you may have to go through to find a therapist that you like
• Why social shame is not a good enough reason to not go to therapy

Resources:

• The Well-Being Initiative
• Mental Health Help for Nurses
• Headspace
• Better Help

National Suicide prevention hotline is 800-273-8255

Today Lacey chats with her personal mentor, Ash Mcdonald, about cycle syncing and how it affects our lives (physically, emotionally, socially, and more). Ash is a therapist, mentor, self-care advocate, productivity coach, & time strategist as well as a mama to three, oat milk latte fanatic, and firm believer in all things transformation. She helps busy, ambitious women craft a life they’re obsessed with through self-awareness, intentional action, and soul-nourishing routines and rituals to live by.

Ashley & Lacey discuss: 

• What cycle syncing is and how we can use it to our advantage
• The four cycles and flows women have
• Women’s versus Men’s cycle
• How nurses can use and understand their cycle when it comes to work
• Removing the guilt & giving yourself permission when it comes to your feelings
• Where and how to start tracking
• Nutrition when it comes to your phases

Ashley helps women find more balance, more intention and more clarity, and more alignment between all the important roles they carry through her group mentorship program, the Ambitiously Aligned Arena.

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Connect with Ashley:

https://www.ashmcdonaldmentoring.com/

https://ambitiously-aligned-arena.mykajabi.com/ambitiously-aligned-arena