I’m a Nurse, Solution Focused Life and Stress Management Coach and Entrepreneur.
Kathy Parlevliet, the Nurse who knows. Growing a garden of work friends and special relationships is necessary to your existence. Weeding through all the different personalities in the world, can be daunting. But there really is someone like you, usually within your sight of vision. How to find the right match is a process of time and awareness.
What I have noticed is how we naturally clone together by gender at first. Women and men find the easiest relationships with same gender. There has already been some weeding process done by the fact that we are all nurses. This is a very special category of humans. To me, we are all Roses! And we keep blooming throughout our nursing careers.
What have you noticed about your work world? How do you feel you fit in? When did you recognize the like-mindedness of the area you work in?
My world has changed many times throughout my career. Remembering when I was working graveyard shift for years, we were an exceptional group of nurses. Feeling more supported in all areas of my life. We were growing our families and ourselves. We actually recognized how this moment wouldn’t last forever, nothing stays the same. The value of these nurses has been lifelong for all of us. The nurses around you all have a story, living a journey, and you a part of it. What have you noticed at work? Are you alone or in a group? Happy to be a nurse or burnt out? Is the sun mostly shining or partly cloudy as a mood of your work world?
Becoming aware of your surroundings, can assist you in deciding how you want to fit in. We have nurses who arrive cheerful and high energy every day to work. Some nurses are slower to wake up and can barely say, good morning, for awhile after they arrive to work. This can be a mismatch, for the beginning of their day. We have a nurse who asks the chipper nurse to please not really speak to her until after 10:00am. This might sound rude to some nurses, but it works for them. She wants to get organized in a calmer environment.
Being like-minded is always present around us. Our mutual goals are, keeping everyone alive, and getting out on time! Our garden of friendships support both these goals. We try to all leave together in unity. We will wait for each other for a few extra minutes if necessary. Sometimes it is not possible, and we all understand.
If you are having difficulty finding where you fit in your garden. I am here for you. TheRNCoach.com.
Let’s talk soon,
Kathy
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