EnfermeraMami.RN - Intuitive Lifestyle for Nurses

12/11/2025

Real talk:
Most nurses are walking around dehydrated, exhausted, and wondering why they have headaches, brain fog, or mood swings.

Sis… we are running a whole marathon shift on caffeine and vibes.
Your body deserves better.

Hydration isn’t just water — it’s regulation.
💧 Focus improves
💧 Mood balances
💧 Energy rises
💧 Stress lowers
💧 Burnout eases

Sometimes it’s not anxiety — you’re just dehydrated.
Sometimes it’s not irritability — you’re just low on fluids.
Sometimes you don’t need another coffee — you need water.

So take a sip.
And then another.
And then finish the cup.

Your body is doing so much for you.
Meet it halfway. 🤍

Comment WATER when you finish your cup. Accountability time. 💧

12/11/2025

Real talk:
Most nurses are walking around dehydrated, exhausted, and wondering why they have headaches, brain fog, or mood swings.

Sis… we are running a whole marathon shift on caffeine and vibes.
Your body deserves better.

Hydration isn’t just water — it’s regulation.
💧 Focus improves
💧 Mood balances
💧 Energy rises
💧 Stress lowers
💧 Burnout eases

Sometimes it’s not anxiety — you’re just dehydrated.
Sometimes it’s not irritability — you’re just low on fluids.
Sometimes you don’t need another coffee — you need water.

So take a sip.
And then another.
And then finish the cup.

Your body is doing so much for you.
Meet it halfway. 🤍

Comment WATER when you finish your cup. Accountability time. 💧

12/10/2025

We don’t talk about how overstimulated nurses actually are.
Lights. Alarms. Phones. Notifications. Rapid thinking. Constant demands.
And then we go home and scroll to “relax,” but our brains never shut off.

A 10-minute detox is small, but it’s powerful.
It tells your brain:
“Hey… we’re safe. We can settle now.”

For 10 minutes today:
📵 Put your phone down
🔕 Turn off notifications
🌿 Sit in silence
✨ Or just be present in your own body

No input.
No noise.
No expectations.

These tiny resets are how we rebuild our attention, our clarity, our emotional bandwidth.

Try it today.
Your brain will thank you.
Your heart will unclench a little.
Your nervous system will exhale.

Comment YES if you’ll try the 10-minute detox today.

12/09/2025

Today’s additional reflection is about action; using our voices, our platforms, and our collective power to protect the future of our profession.

Right now, the Department of Education has excluded nursing from its list of “professional degree” programs. A decision with serious implications for the nursing workforce and for patient access to care.

Even more concerning:
The Department is considering recommendations that would cut federal loan availability for post-baccalaureate nursing students in half compared to what medical students receive.

This proposal would:

— Limit access to graduate education
— Deepen the nursing faculty shortage
— Reduce the number of future NPs, CNSs, CRNAs, and nurse leaders
— Threaten the pipeline of advanced practice nurses our nation urgently depends on

This is not just a policy issue.
This is a patient-care issue.
This is a workforce-sustainability issue.
This is a health-equity issue.

And it demands our attention.

Now is the time to act.

Write, call, and email your senators and representatives.
Urge them to contact the Department of Education and push for nursing to be formally recognized as a professional degree.

This recognition matters; for access, for equity, and for the future of advanced nursing education.

Take action here: RNAction.org

Your voice matters.
Your advocacy matters.
And together, we can ensure the profession continues to grow, thrive, and serve our communities with excellence.

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12/09/2025

We don’t talk about how overstimulated nurses actually are.
Lights. Alarms. Phones. Notifications. Rapid thinking. Constant demands.
And then we go home and scroll to “relax,” but our brains never shut off.

A 10-minute detox is small, but it’s powerful.
It tells your brain:
“Hey… we’re safe. We can settle now.”

For 10 minutes today:
📵 Put your phone down
🔕 Turn off notifications
🌿 Sit in silence
✨ Or just be present in your own body

No input.
No noise.
No expectations.

These tiny resets are how we rebuild our attention, our clarity, our emotional bandwidth.

Try it today.
Your brain will thank you.
Your heart will unclench a little.
Your nervous system will exhale.

Comment YES if you’ll try the 10-minute detox today.

12/08/2025

As nurses, we’re trained to respond fast, think fast, move fast. But nobody teaches us how to slow down—
how to take care of the nervous system that’s constantly in fight-or-flight.

So today, we pause.
For 60 seconds.
Just 60.
Because your survival mode does not have to be your everyday reality.

✨ Try the 4-4-4 breath:
Inhale for 4
Hold for 4
Exhale for 4
Repeat x4

You deserve a moment that belongs only to you.
A moment where your body isn’t bracing for the next crisis.
A moment where your mind stops spinning.
A moment where you can simply exist.

Save this for the next time your shift, your mind, or your heart starts to feel too heavy.
Your breath is medicine too. 🤍

Comment BREATHE if this helped you ground yourself today.

12/07/2025

Nurse confession: Sometimes you walk into that unit, hear one alarm, smell one mystery smell, get one chaotic report…and instantly remember that nursing requires a very special kind of person 😭🔥

Because let’s be honest:
It’s hell in there sometimes, pero somehow we still show up, still advocate, still laugh through the madness, and still take care of people with the biggest hearts.
Not everyone’s built for this — but we are. 🩺💪🏽

To all the nurses surviving on caffeine, teamwork, dark humor, and pure resilience… I see you. We’re built different. 😂🤍

12/07/2025

Peace is sacred. Peace is medicine. Peace is a choice we make every day.

This year, I found peace in:
A stable job.
Exciting experiences.
Amazing relationships.
Choosing Myself.
Saying no to things that didn’t serve me.
Taking care of myself first.

There are 2 things I will never compromise on - joy and peace.
Those things have to come from within. I am going to choose them every time. While I can thrive in chaos, I much rather flourish in peace and love. Sometimes choosing peace means letting go of people and things that no longer serve you. It’s not an easy path, but to me it is definitely worth it.
Peace taught me that productivity is not my identity.
Rest taught me that joy can exist without struggle.

In 2026, I’m choosing softness over survival mode.
I’m choosing alignment over exhaustion.
I’m choosing me.

🤍 Comment “PEACE” if you’re choosing softness next year too.

12/07/2025

Peace is sacred. Peace is medicine. Peace is a choice we make every day.

This year, I found peace in:
A stable job.
Exciting experiences.
Amazing relationships.
Choosing Myself.
Saying no to things that didn’t serve me.
Taking care of myself first.

There are 2 things I will never compromise on - joy and peace.
Those things have to come from within. I am going to choose them every time. While I can thrive in chaos, I much rather flourish in peace and love. Sometimes choosing peace means letting go of people and things that no longer serve you. It’s not an easy path, but to me it is definitely worth it.
Peace taught me that productivity is not my identity.
Rest taught me that joy can exist without struggle.

In 2026, I’m choosing softness over survival mode.
I’m choosing alignment over exhaustion.
I’m choosing me.

🤍 Comment “PEACE” if you’re choosing softness next year too.

12/07/2025