There is a voice most nurses know well. It is the one that says someone else has it worse, so sit down and stay quiet. The Second Shift podcast opens by admitting that voice almost kept this episode from existing at all.
This episode is about what self-doubt actually costs a nurse, why disqualifying your own experience became a professional reflex, and what years at the bedside teaches you about showing up before you feel ready.
Lessons you will take away:
Loving nursing while hating the conditions are two separate problems, not one. You get to define what your nursing career looks and feels like.
The most transferable skills you own today are proven by every shift you work, by every decision you make. Your inventory of skills gives you choices you may have never thought you had.
Why permission is never coming from anyone else, except you. You hold the key to your future.
Nurses: Is this you? You know when you’re mid-shift, running on fumes? You stop in that moment of chaos, for a brief moment, and think, there has to be something better than this! If this describes a typical day in your nursing life, you are in the right place.
I help nurses stop white-knuckling their way through chaos. I help them hear what they actually want, then rebuild a life around it that pays the bills without losing themselves in the process.
Connect: This conversation continues in my Substack community, posts, and daily notes. If you are the nurse tired of working in the chaos and you are ready for a real, honest conversation about your future, let’s schedule a conversation nurse to nurse. This will be the easiest conversation you have had all week.
Are you interested in hearing more? These are designed for you.
The second shift is a newsletter and podcast designed for nurses who carry the weight of caring for 12-14 hours and then come home to begin a second shift. This is the shift no one sees, but one that is equally important. I have lived this story and want to share with nurses that there is relief. As a coach, I create space for nurses that is based in real, honest conversations. The development of a plan that moves you from chaos to a life where you feel alive inside of it again. No fancy frameworks, no 5-day plans that never seem to work. A real, honest conversation from someone who has lived the experience.
If you are ready for that conversation, I am excited to hear from you.
With care,
Patrick LaRose, DNP, MSN/Ed., RN, NC-BC Board-Certified Coach | Life Coach lifenursecoach.com
