11/24/2025
There is NOTHING wrong with employment.
Let’s say that louder for the nurses in the back.
I became a nurse to be a nurse.
ICU is where I wanted to retire. I would have stayed there until the day I retired—
if injury, discrimination, and being fired for a disability hadn’t ripped that future away.
I lost my vested pension.
Decades of labor erased.
But here’s the part no one prepares you for:
I gained health, healing, clarity, and a calling to build what bedside nursing would’ve never allowed me to create. My life didn’t end there—
it erupted.
And many of you are standing exactly where I stood.
When things got rocky, I considered what many of you are thinking right now:
➡️ “Maybe if I go back to school, things will get better.”
➡️ “Maybe more education will give me safety.”
But I had to confront the real question:
If the pressure at the bedside almost broke you… why do you think MORE responsibility, MORE debt, MORE hierarchy, and LESS protection is the cure?
If they didn’t value you as the nurse keeping the unit alive,
why would they suddenly value you as leadership?
Let’s call it what it is
A degree doesn’t fix a toxic system.
A degree doesn’t fix work fatigue.
A degree doesn’t fix YOU.
There are five kinds of work fatigue—and none of them are solved by another $40K in student loans.
Here’s the take aways i want you to hear :
Work fatigue ends when you confront the actual issue.
Not when you run from it.
There’s an old saying:
“The way to your better is through the situation.”
Not around it.
Not above it.
Not with another diploma on the wall.
If you’re exhausted, fed up, and secretly hoping that more school will magically fix your job experience…
Stop.
Your employment experience is a mirror.
Others may contribute, but you decide what you will accept, what you will change, and what you will heal.
You don’t need more credentials.
You need nurse-led clarity, safety, and strategy.
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🔥 CTA: Want to Know Which of the 5 Work Fatigue Types You’re Actually Experiencing?
Take my Work Fatigue Quiz.
Just email me “FATIGUE”
and I’ll send it to you privately.
One word can give you the clarity you’ve been missing.
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