My guest today helps nurses rediscover “the nurse within.” Elizabeth Scala, a healthcare podcaster, and the host of Your Next Shift is a one-woman media company. She’s also a nurse and the author of Nursing from Within and Stop Nurse Burnout. Elizabeth is also a frequent keynote speaker on the topic of nurse burnout. With her RN/FM co-hosts, Keith Carlson and Kevin Ross, founded the Pulse Media Network to help bring more healthcare podcasts to audiences.  Our conversation will focus on, you guessed it, nurse burnout and the stresses unique to the field.  Join us for our conversation on Get Social Health.

Listen to the podcast or drop in at the time stamps below:

00:43  Introduction
03:42  Psych nurse stress
05:39  31 flavors of nursing
06:10  About your podcast, Next Shift
08:12  Connecting with your audience
10:14  No idea how to describe this question
10:53  Leading causes of nurse burnout
13:07  Is burnout unique to service jobs?
14:07  Family dynamics of patients
15:12  Your training regime
16:11  Self-regulating burnout
17:12  Burnout into bullying, or vice versa?
19:15  Caring for caregivers
20:05  “The Nurse Within”
21:22  Why you do what you do
22:12  Have e-records helped the nursing experience?
23:52  Nursing is the mother of invention
24:24  About your podcast friends…
26:49  Pulse media network
28:39  Podcast proponent
29:30  Getting in touch
30:45  End
31:22  Social Media Tip: Ahmanielle Hall
31:55 Closing

Connect with Elizabeth

You can find Elizabeth’s website here:  elizabethscala.com

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