Learn about The Burned-out Nurse Practitioner

I was burned-out and ready to leave healthcare.

Back in 2015, I was working on a busy, acute care floor as a registered nurse. I was a few years into nursing and started noticing some changes in my personal and professional life. I had always loved nursing and appreciated the fact I would care for patients when they needed it most. But then things began to change.

I began to:

Dread going to work.
Lack empathy and compassion for my patients.
Feel detached from my patients, my family, and even myself.
No longer feel excited about working as a nurse.
Feel mentally, emotionally, physically exhausted.
Contemplate if I should leave healthcare.

I was completely burned-out and I didn’t even know it.

Until one day I went for my “30 minute, uninterrupted lunch break” (which we all know hopefully happens sometime before 3:30pm). As I was warming up my food, I noticed an article on the table.

The article was about compassion fatigue in healthcare providers. I started reading the article.

I check marked every single sign and symptom of compassion fatigue.

It was then that I realized I was burned-out.

Once I was finally able to put a label on what I had been feeling, I worked to overcome that burnout.

Overtime I implemented the necessary to steps to conquer my burnout. I implemented self-care. I set personal and professional boundaries. I left the toxic work-environment. I focused more on my own health and wellness. I completed the necessary mindset shifts.

Eventually I overcame the burnout.

I then applied and made it through a family nurse practitioner program. I had found a renewed passion for healthcare and taking care of patients. I was excited about this new role and how I could better help patient.

And then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Nurse practitioners were burned-out before COVID-19, but the pandemic greatly increased the rate of nurse practitioner burnout.

I took some time and reflected on my own burnout journey. I remembered how I had felt and that I didn’t think I would ever overcome the burnout.

So I decided to create The Burned-out Nurse Practitioner.

I now help overwhelmed nurse practitioners create a better work-life balance and overcome the burnout. I offer online courses, coaching, and support. I write about tips I used to overcome burnout.

I created a The Burned-out Nurse Practitioner Facebook group of equally burned-out nurse practitioners, ready to support one another.

The Burned-out Nurse Practitioner’s online services

The Burned-out Nurse Practitioner’s blog page offers tips and tricks for creating a better work-life balance and overcoming nurse practitioner burnout.

Online courses include:

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