Uplifting Insights & Life-Balance Tools

   

 March                                                                                                                                 2015
  
 

Happy almost-spring from beautiful Colorado. Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my free monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring for yourself while caring for others.

 

Positively Yours,

LeAnn

Positivity Power   

 

With 55% of the current nurse workforce planning to retire by 2020, our nation is expected to be short nearly ½ million nurses. I believe nurses can reverse this crisis ourselves. That's right. You heard me. If each of the 2 ½ million nurses in America recruits or helps retain one nurse, we can end our shortage! That's why I have launched my Each One Reach One Nurse campaign. Here are tips of easy things you can do:

 

EACH ONE, REACH ONE NURSE

 

Endorse nursing as a great career

Advise middle or high schoolers to join

Counsel CNAs to get (nursing)degrees

Help a tired nurse stay in

 

ONE

 

Recruit a non-practicing nurse to return

Encourage nurses to be instructors

Assist and support a new nurse

Care for yourself (and model that to others)

Honor and recognize your colleagues

 

ONE NURSE

 

 

Lessons from LeAnn

Each one reaching out to help, to support, to encourage...we just need to influence one person to keep them in nursing, bring them into nursing, or make them love their job. The solution may sound simplistic, but its ramifications could be profound. And wouldn't it feel so much better to solve our own problem? We can do this!


 
In This Issue
Positivity Power
Lessons from LeAnn
Sip du Jour
About LeAnn Thieman
Sip du Jour
A Healthy Quote:

 

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results." 

- Florence Nightingale

  

To learn more ways to recruit and retain nurses, visit SelfCare for HealthCare™.   


About LeAnn Thieman

Best-Selling Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and Nurse.  

Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, and 10 other Chicken Soup for the Soul titles. Her book Balancing Life in Your "War Zones" shares lessons from her Vietnam Orphan Airlift adventure. Her latest book and initiative is SelfCare for HealthCare™

: Your Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Health.  

 

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