Scrubs And Sanity
Keeping your scrubs clean and your sanity (mostly) intact
A mental health nurse who (after stumbling and caffeine fueling through training) knows how tough working in healthcare can get. The burnout, short-staffing & never ending training years. Here I’ll give you honest reflections, & strategies to protect your mental health while navigating the chaos of healthcare. About
PS. Real life resources are on their way – think e-journals, interactive grounding methods, planners and study tips. To help you not just survive but breathe between shifts.
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Category: Practical Emotional Health Tools
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There’s plenty of advice for people who hate their jobs — the “quit and follow your passion” kind.But what if you actually like your work? You’re good at it, it matters to you, and yet… your shoulders live somewhere near your ears and your brain hums at 120 BPM from 8 a.m. till midnight. That’s…
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When your stress is louder than the patient alarms, you know you need a reset. I can already hear it: ‘Healthcare workers don’t have time for on-shift wellness rituals.’ Cue the collective eye-roll — I get it, I really do. That’s exactly why I’m not about to tell you to meditate for an hour or…
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Busy offices. Noisy wards. Phones pinging. Colleagues chatting. Patients calling. Sometimes your brain feels like it’s running 47 browser tabs at once. Stress replays itself like a bad re-run When I think about the most stressful time in my career (so far), my body doesn’t just remember it — it re-enacts it. Chest tightens, throat…
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