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Purpose-Driven Nurse & Curriculum Creator | EdTech | Empowering Healthcare Education | Advocate for Nursing Excellence, Nurse Reimbursement, and Healthcare Policy Change

I'm so tired of the negativity you see about #nursing on social media. These videos are full of nurses cutting down others, making fun of patients, or verbally attacking the administration. If there was a Nurse Positivity Project channel where you could submit uplifting stories, career advice, self-care tips, and clips about advocacy and awareness, would you do it? Would you be excited to share small clips that could encourage another nurse or even someone considering going to nursing school? I've been thinking about starting an account, but I would need lots of other nurses to submit content so that it's not just me talking. I want it to be the place nurses can turn to when they need 30 seconds of encouragement, empowerment, or a gentle reminder that they are doing great work. Any takers? #nursepositivityproject #nursesonlinkedin #healthcareonlinkedin #nurses #encourageoneanother #positivedisruption #nursessupportingnurses

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Kresta Grabau, BSN, RN, OCN, PHN

Oncology Nurse Navigator • Lung Cancer Screening Coordinator • Public Health Advocate • Healthy Planet 🌱 Healthy People

4mo

I think that's a great idea, Melissa Mills, RN, BSN, MHA! My worry is that the negative things for which you provided examples do happen and require attention or we risk not being able to address problems effectively. Also, it's important to listen to dissenting voices instead of stonewalling them. Otherwise, we end up in siloed echo chambers and continuously "preach to the choir." As nurses, it would do us a world of good to learn to disagree, and even engage in serious debate of controversial subjects, while still being open to listening fully and practicing empathy for those with differing opinions. So, that was a really long way of saying that I would be excited to share encouraging, uplifting, empowering stories. And I'm also open to learning and growing from those hard, but necessary, conversations.

Kathleen Bartholomew

Author, Nurse Leader, Health Culture Expert

4mo

I think that's a great idea. I am looking for humorous and uplifting stories all the time. One of the reasons we don't share these stories is TIME - after we went to 12 hour shifts no one went out together socially after work anymore. So let's create a digital social space that showcases not just positivity, but how nurses save lives - every day!

Michelle DeStefano RN,MPA,NEA-BC

Executive Coach for Healthcare Leaders /30+ years in Hospital/Nursing Leadership, Including Chief Nursing Officer/Driving Clinical and Operational Performance Improvement

4mo

I think this is a great idea. Stories also on how the nurses saved lives or were creative in patient care and getting the positive outcomes for patients.

Natasha Jackson

Innovative Nurse Leader in Care Management and Value-Based Care

4mo

I would certainly support this Melissa Mills, RN, BSN, MHA, yesterday I was honored to speak with another nurse Kasey Pacheco who I connected with here on LinkedIn, the way she "poured" into me it was so nice to be seen and appreciated, I believe we all need that as nurses. Nurses inspiring Nurses, would be a great community.

Rosa Hart

Nurse Leader | Stroke Certified Registered Nurse | Nurse Media Consultant | Speaker

4mo

Melissa Mills, RN, BSN, MHA that’s exactly what we have been talking about doing! Let’s have a call! Kimberly Delbo, DNP, RN-BC Tanya Abreu

Julia A. Finn, BSN, RN, CLCP, CCM-R

Certified Life Care Planner, Expert Witness, Registered Nurse, Certified Case Manager-R,

4mo

YES! Stories of eating our own outnumber those of support and mentoring.

Sarah Mihara BSN, RN

Clinical Director | Cooperative Elder Services, Inc.

4mo

This sounds amazing!

Cindy Kruse

Empowering and Guiding High Achieving Nurses to Overcome Burnout. I provide a safe space to become aware, heal, grow and expand to rejuvenate your heart space to serve from a place of regulated wholeness.

4mo

Yes! Count me in! The power of positive perspective can raise the collective. Keeping in mind, in order to get to true positivity and not bypass, one must feeling the feelings until they are done being felt, to have the clarity, expansion and openness to embody the new perspective fully! I’d love to help in any way I can!

I started a FB group called 360 positive nurse experiences a few years back for the same reasons. It is presently for student nurses from a UK university and an Indian one

Yes! One positive place on social media is Nurses Inspire Nurses. I don’t see them on LinkedIn though. I just won a giveaway for some badge reels that say “Nurses Inspire Nurses” and have gotten positive feedback while wearing it at work so I think there is a desire for more positivity.

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