Guest Post by New York Times #1 Bestselling Author and Registered Nurse, Carol Gino
Okay, so after about 10 hours stiffening into stone sitting in front of a computer screen, I finally decided to get up and move inside, away from reading anything about healthcare. I want light, mindless entertainment. So I flop down on the couch and pick up the remote to begin scanning tonight’s programs. I click through the stations like a man. But the remote always returns to the same station.
Oh God! Grey’s Anatomy. I love Grey’s Anatomy. Why do I love it? There’s nothing like it in the real world. But that’s why I love it. It’s so romantic. It paints such heroes. Heroes I believed in when I was a teenager. Doctors who fall apart when a patient dies, doctors who smooth a patient’s brow for long minutes, doctors who forego dinner at the local pub with their friends in order to play checkers with a patient…..What?
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In case you haven’t noticed, life moves fast. It also doesn’t seem to matter whether you are a brick-and-mortar or an on-line biz, shortage of time is a constant battle. A million things tug at you all day long, but at the end of the day you still need to find the time to market your business.
Email marketing is one of those valuable tools that allows you to market to prospective customers without breaking the bank. But that too can be a time sucker if you don’t utilize the proper “helper tools” like Autoresponders. Autoresponders are like your own personal assistant, but one that never needs vacation or a break!
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Hey guys, on Monday I introduced you to Keith Carlson, one of my co-hosts on RN.FM Radio. Today, I’d like to introduce you to my other partner in crime, Kevin Ross from InnovativeNurse.com.
Kevin is our no-nonsense, tech-savvy, won’t settle for anything less than the very best kind of nurse entrepreneur….and we love him for it!
Here’s Kevin’s motto:
Seek every opportunity for continuing education. A business can never afford to be static. Innovation is the key to success and it is a delicate combination of ever-changing art and science.
He is an ultra-innovative, self-starter and always has his “head on a swivel,” as he likes to say. Early in his professional career he realized that if he wasn’t working his passion and living up to his potential…he was just existing and ‘getting by’…that’s painful for some of us to recognize….and it was a painful realization for him as well.
By digging deep and identifying his passion and then strategically pursuing it, Kevin was able to achieve a level of wellness, career satisfaction and purpose that few achieve.
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Hey guys, let me introduce Keith Carlson, my Co-Host at “RN.FM Radio: Nursing Unleashed!“.
Keith has been a nurse for over 15 years and has been blogging and working online successfully since 2005. Recently, he has begun a nurse coaching practice, where he helps nurses rediscover their passion and live a more fulfilled life.
Keith believes that, ‘Success breeds success…how you think and who you hang out with on a daily basis will determine your frame of mind.’
Most nurses and caregivers in general, tend to give so much of themselves that they often forget to care for themselves as well. Who among us hasn’t been there?
The problem is that nurses who forget to take care of themselves are destined to face burnout.
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Thinking about writing a book? Think no more. It has become easier for nurses (and anyone with a message) to share it with the world than ever before.
Self-publishing technology has literally leveled the playing field.
No more facing rejections from traditional book publishers. You are now in the driver’s seat and you can…plan, schedule, write, publish and promote your own book, easier and cheaper than ever before.
How do I know?
My first book, ‘5 Things They Never Told You in Nursing School,’ was completely self-published, self-promoted via Social Media and hit #1 on Amazon in the Nursing category in under 11 hours on December 11, 2011… That’s how I know it can be done.
(That’s also why from that day on, 11 has been my lucky number! Sorry 34, you were really good to me for a long time, but 11 is my new sweetheart now…ahhh, but I digress…)
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Hey guys! So, it’s a new year and that means I’ve decided to start a new tradition here at “I Coach Nurses.” At least once, maybe twice a week, I’ll be featuring a ‘column’ called “Nurse Entrepreneurs To Watch” (NETW for short) that will feature nurses out there pioneering their own way and acting as a role model for other nurses, making a huge difference in peoples’ lives, and making a nice chunk of change for themselves: win-win-win. I hope you guys like the new column and pay attention to the way these nurses think, act and conduct their business. There’s a lot of great stuff to be learned from people out there doing it right! So, without further ado….enjoy!
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Once in awhile you come across news that stirs your heart or stories that motivate you to do and be more. As nurses, in our pressurized and challenging environments, our days are sometimes filled with mundane tasks and endless demands which leave us tired and unmotivated.
Some of us want ‘out,’ yet it’s easy to get complacent. After all, nursing is still highly in demand and our pay is relatively high when compared to many other professions.
So how do you stay motivated if all around you are tired nurses, demanding bosses and sick patients?
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Hey guys!
After a 2 month hiatus, the EntrepreNurse Summit Replay is FINALLY available.
Next week, for 37 straight hours, we are opening the vault and making the webinar series “Escape the Bedside, Make a Difference & (finally) Earn What You’re Worth” - with it’s 5 hours of FREE training on how to become a Nurse Entrepreneur – available as our holiday gift to you.
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Hey guys,
Hope you’re all enjoying the holidays as much as I am!
Boy, I’ve been hitting the cake and eggnog a little hard these days – I won’t lie, the pants are definitely fitting a little tighter than usual – so it’s back to the gym with a vengeance for me in January!
Anyway, I wanted to give you guys links to 2 guest blog posts I wrote in the last week, so you didn’t miss out on these nuggets!
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They are the practitioners of the difficult and heroic art of transition, whose ultimate goal is to promote quality of life. Hospice Heroes accept and embrace this gift of providing compassionate end of life care for their patients as a profound mission based on self- sacrifice and a willingness to live for something greater than themselves. They know that care is more than tending to the physical end of life, so they are able to be and act in the present moment to help ease the gnawing fears that the patient, his or her family, and support group feel. Above all, Hospice Heroes understand that death does not have to be painful, joyless, or lacking in dignity.
We have entrusted them with such a profound responsibility, yet we often neglect to provide them with the necessary tools to carry out their mission. In 2006, The National Quality Forum published A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality: A Consensus Report. This report details the problems hindering healthcare outcomes, the preferred practices to improve healthcare outcomes, and the rationale for developing these practices.
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Australian Nurse Creates the Nurses’ Joey
Hey Everybody!
Check out this link to a video on YouTube showing an Australian nurse who was sick of running back and forth to grab all her supplies all the time. She just wanted to have everything handy and save herself all the walking, so she invented a type of Nursing Toolbelt called the “Nurses’ Joey” and it’s taking off like wildfire!
I love it’s simplicity and functionality!
Check out the video and let me know what you think?
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