The Self Care Unit

We're back with another Ask A Nurse for The Self Care Unit! This week, Carley and Sarah, with Joe asking the questions, continue the conversation we started last week about balance in nursing. It's absolutely vital that nurses feel a sense of balance in their lives, so what can we do to help make that happen? We discuss how they handle when a loved one is in the hospital, tackle how long it takes them to decompress after stressful shifts, and try to answer how nurses can start balancing their concern for others with their concern for themselves. As always, the conversation is fun, insightful, and definitely worth a listen for those in scrubs and laymen alike!

As always, please let us know if you have any questions you’d like to ask our nurses! You can email [email protected] and it may be asked on the next edition of Ask A Nurse. And stay tuned for next week’s episode of The Self Care Unit!

On this episode of Ask A Nurse for The Self Care Unit, Joe has Carley and Sarah focus their energies on the topic of Balance. How can nurses create a sense of balance in their lives and careers? What actions, habits, or lifestyles help more than others in the quest for balance? How does setting boundaries and enforcing them help maintain balance? What can nurses do when boundaries are crossed by coworkers, administrators, or even patients? How can we ensure that nurses feel and express their full range of emotions? Carley and Sarah answer those and more, and the conversation, as always, gives great insight into the realities of being a nurse working in the world today.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions you’d like to ask our nurses! You can email [email protected] and it may be asked on the next edition of Ask A Nurse. And stay tuned for next week’s episode of The Self Care Unit!

CW: Disordered Eating

The Self Care Unit was joined by the incredible Sonia Jhas for a brand new Mental Health Matters episode! Sonia is a Mindset and Wellness Coach, motivational speaker, and fitness guru inspired by a passion for helping other people, and that immediately comes through whenever you hear her speak! Sonia shares her journey with our hosts, and she talks about how she moved from Fitness and Nutrition into the focus on Mindset and Wellness she has today. We also chat about prioritizing a holistic Mindset shift over moving to the current trend or thing-thing, how to manage your social media use to create balance, and more! It's a really fun and interesting conversation, tune in!

For more of Sonia and her amazing work, check out her website at soniajhas.com and her Instagram page @soniajhas!

Re-released episode from Happy Hour with Operation Happy Nurse: "This week, we are joined by the lovely Lindsey Shelton. Lindsey is an ICU travel nurse, mental health advocate, and digital creator. As a nurse, she created @ScrubHacks on Instagram to provide advice and tips for ICU and travel nurses and to create an open space to talk about mental health. Lindsey shares her journey to becoming a nurse, influencer, and a mental health advocate with Carley and Joe, and chats about all things nursing and traveling in a really fun, honest, and engaging conversation. There's a little dog talk thrown in there as well, for fans of our four-legged friends! Thank you to Lindsey for joining us, check it out!

Make sure to follow @ScrubHacks for more of Lindsey, she's a delight!"

Self Care Unit has another fantastic educational episode for you this week! We had the pleasure of having the esteemed Diane Sieg on the podcast to talk about how nurses can care for themselves and each other. As a speaker, author, life coach, nurse, and yoga teacher, Diane brings resilience skills to healthcare organizations in so many ways. She is an incredible advocate for nurse wellbeing, and we were so grateful to have her as our guest! We talk first steps to take to deal with stress and burnout, how to advocate for yourself, and more! It is a conversation you truly don't want to miss!

For more of Diane, please check out her website dianesieg.com!

Welcome to the first educational episode of The Self Care Unit! Today, Sarah and Carley are joined by Dr. JaQuinda Jackson. Dr. Jackson is a licensed trauma-focused therapist, who specializes in trauma informed therapy, as well as mental health performance training. With our goal of learning more about her field of expertise, Dr. Jackson walks us through both the basics of trauma, as well as the issues that nurses and healthcare professionals face when dealing with the trauma in the workplace. 

How can we better support nurses and possibly alleviate the trauma they face on a regular basis? How can those in positions of power put better structures in place to help their teams? What has changed or improved as more and more of us become informed about trauma? Dr. Jackson is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to learn more about trauma, how it affects us, and what we can do about it, so we are so grateful she joined us for this insightful conversation!

If our listeners would like to learn more about her or even utilize her services, you can find her on Instagram @dr_jaquinda_jackson or at her website www.jacksonconsultingsllc.com.

On this second episode of Ask A Nurse for The Self Care Unit, we continue to tackle important questions and give our honest takes on the realities of the nursing and healthcare world. In that effort, Self Care Unit hosts Carley and Sarah focus their energy on all of Joe’s questions about motivation. How can nurses help each other with motivation? How can honest communication help with so many of the problems nurses face and increase camaraderie? What can patients do to help their amazing nurses out? Carley and Sarah answer those and more, and they provide real insight into the goings on of their profession.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions you’d like to ask our nurses! You can email [email protected] and it may be asked on the next edition of Ask A Nurse. And stay tuned for next week’s episode of The Self Care Unit!

What’s that? It’s the very first episode of Ask A Nurse, as part of the brand new Self Care Unit! To begin our new era, nurses Carley and Josh are joined by Joe! These episodes will feature Joe as the resident non-nurse, asking questions chosen by him or submitted by our listeners to our amazing nurses. The goal is to both learn something and tackle the hottest topics in the nursing world. What you also get is some honest opinions on the realities of being a nurse in the world today. To begin, we get into questions all about motivation, and what drives these nurses in their jobs and lives. Check it out!

A truly amazing Mental Health Matters for you this week, Shannon and Carley are joined by the incredible Tay Dome! Tay is a mental health advocate who started Lemons by Tay to share her journey of learning to put her mental health and self care first and to provide resources and community to all of us trying to do the same. Beyond that work, Tay is also a nurse, and she shares her experience working during COVID and the impact that had on her mental health. She is so honest and open about how that trauma continues to affect her in a myriad of ways; we are beyond grateful that she shared her story with us. For an example of the conversations about mental health we should be having, look no further than this episode, it's one you don't want to miss!

For more of Tay, she can be found on Instagram @TayDome or at lemonsbytay.com

We've got a really special Mental Health Matters episode for you this week! Carley and Shannon are joined by Justin of @JustinLiftsThings on Instagram, TikTok, and more. Justin is a nursing student, a healthcare, LGBTQ+, and mental health advocate, and just an all-around amazing person. We have a lovely conversation on all things nursing and mental health. We learn about Justin's journey with mental health, chat about the resources and options for nurses to get the mental health support they deserve, and discuss the substantial changes happening in the healthcare community. It's a really frank, honest, and insightful conversation, and we are so grateful to Justin for being our guest! Tune in!

Justin can be found on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter as @JustinLiftsThings, they've got some amazing content you simply have to check out!