116: Career Planning for Nurses 2023
Career Planning for Nurses 2023
In this episode, we dive into the world of career planning and challenge the traditional notion of following a precise path. Join me as I explore the beauty of embracing a "hot mess" career, where detours, uncertainties, and diverse roles can lead to personal and professional growth. I also talked about the Four P Approach to career planning, a simple and effective method that anyone can use to navigate their professional journey.
You will also learn about the inspiring story of a nurse with 30 years of experience who believed she lacked opportunities for growth. Discover how she used the Four P Approach to uncover her true capabilities, passions, and a multitude of career pathways. By giving herself permission to plan, she overcame limiting beliefs and successfully pursued a higher-level nursing position.
As you listen to this episode I encouraged you to reflect on one insight that you can apply to your own career planning. Career plans are not set in stone and should be intentionally created to serve individual aspirations.
Ultimately, my goal in this episode is to empower nurses to take charge of their careers, think critically about what they want to create, and embrace a modern approach to career planning that aligns with their values and goals.
Key takeaways:
02:16 - What does career planning means?
11:55 - The Four P Approach to Career Planning
12:04 - Step One: Perceptions - Analyzing internal thoughts and beliefs.
12:42 - Step Two: Passions - Identifying activities that bring energy and fulfillment.
14:17 - Step Three: Pathways - Thinking beyond traditional options and embracing new possibilities.
15:25 - Step Four: Permission to Plan - Developing an informed and intentional career strategy.
15:54 - Case Study: Jane's Transformation
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I am good enough, I can do this. I have everything that I need.
your brain's not gonna believe it, but if you practice it over time, it will. Cause A belief is just a collection of thoughts believed over a period of time. If you can believe that you're not good enough, you can believe that you are good enough. So powerful. Well, hello. They're beautiful humans. I hope you're all well Welcome students, grads, seasoned, beautiful humans, non-graduates, senior nurses. Welcome. I'm gonna be talking about career planning today. I presented this recently at the Gerontological Alliance for Nurses Australia. That's a hard word to say, and it was received pretty well.
I'll have to deliver this in 10 minutes. I'm not gonna run through it as quickly as that today. I'm gonna take my time, probably 15 minutes, [00:01:00] maybe 20. But I know that there's a lot of goodness in here for you to take from this. There will be a message in here for someone at every level of their career.
So, without further ado, let's dive in. don't have to give you the spiel, but I'm gonna tell you a little story. So I want you to take away from this session. Some challenge perceptions about career planning and how you maybe think about career planning in the traditional sense.
I e what we've been taught up until this point, I wanna inspire possibility within you. I want you to think about what is actually truly possible for you in your careers, and I want you to generate permission. Some of you need this. Session. Some of you need to give yourself permission. I spend my life just passing permission from myself to other people, and I love it.
It's one of my favorite things to do. So if you need permission, take it from this session today. You can ask questions and I'll get back to you after the session. You can engage below or wherever you're watching this video and get back to me and I'll get back to you after this session. And I'd love you to drop any [00:02:00] ahas you engaging with this in any way, shape or form, even if it's just a message afterwards saying, Hey, This resonated, gives me life and helps me know that I'm on the right track and that I'm not talking to no one.
Alrighty. So let's do this. I want you to think about this question. What does career planning mean to you? Because when I think of career planning in the traditional sense, I go back to the place where I'm like, Oh, I have a career as a nurse. I need to make a plan and I'm gonna decide the plan ahead of time.
And it takes me back to my like early student graduate years where I literally did that. I was like, oh my God. I'm gonna be a nurse. I need to create a plan. And I created this kind of like trajectory plan without actually really knowing myself and not knowing really what was possible. So I wanted to tell that story through my career experience up until this point, and hopefully you see something here now.
Excuse all of the terrible selfies, but there's a method to my madness. So where this all started for me in terms of [00:03:00] career planning, was when I was A student nurse, a final year of student nurse, and I went to my first ever graduate nursing interview and the director of nursing that interviewed me said to me afterwards feedback, she said, you know what, Liam?
I think one day you're gonna make a great director of nursing. And lo and behold, That was my career planning. That was the start of my career planning journey. And I just took that little seat of possibility, like that little possibility drop right in front of me. And I like held onto it for dear life.
And I'm like, well, if she says I've gotta do this, I've gotta do this. So on the path I went towards becoming a director of nursing. So I started off in Scotland, started my nursing, Korea. And that's where I did my training. And then I got a job down in Redding, down in England, just outside London. And I started my first job in a busy medical admission and planning unit.
Boy was at a baptism of fire. Oh my goodness. And when I was there working, I was thinking to myself, oh, career planning. Like I'm gonna be a specialist nurse. Maybe I could be a senior nurse here. And every time that I was in a job, as I moved through my [00:04:00] career, I just kept thinking the same thing. Maybe I could do this, maybe I could do that.
And then I spent a few years there and then I got tapped on the shoulder. And somebody said to me, Hey Liam I'm on an intensive care veteran. I'm like, ah. And she said to me, maybe it'd be a great ICU nurse. And I'm went, sure, let's do icu. So I applied for icu and then I went to ICU and you're starting to see a little theme here.
And then I went to ICU and I met my partner and we moved to Australia. When I got to Australia, I started exploring lots of different potential possibilities, lots of different potential. Pathways. And in pursuing all of those things, I started giving myself permission to just try before I buy and explore.
Australia was new and I wasn't really sure what I was getting myself in for. So I did agency, I did clinical facilitation, I did education, I did marking. I worked across the public-private sectors as an agency nurse. And I really just did anything that came my way. And that was a great experience for me.
And then I moved to Canberra, became an advanced life support coordinator. I taught compass training, early recognition of deteriorating patients. I became a medical [00:05:00] clinical nurse educator across five inpatient wards in the acute sector as a medical C n C, as an advanced primary care nurse. All of the things.
I did all of the things, and I kept just seeing these opportunities arising. And then fast forward to today via Fiji in an internship, in a humanitarian context. I'm now an entrepreneur that works and lives from currently Paris because my partner is here on posting. So I tell you this story because as you can see, It was like all over the place.
And I think sometimes we get caught up in what it should look like versus what it actually really, truly does look like. And I hope me telling you my story inspires you to give yourself permission to just go all in on whatever turns out. So I think that there's a perception, right? That. I thought it should be a direct line to, and I truly believed when that director of nursing said to me, Hey, you'd be great.
I was like, yeah, I would be great. Like I'll do this, then I'll be a cn, then I'll be a C N C, then I'll be a c e, and then I'll be an a o and I'll just follow the path and I'll make it happen. And the [00:06:00] reality is my career looked like an ED nurse's IV infusion set. The IV infusion line for ED nurse. This is what it looks like and don't come from the ED nurses.
You know, it's true. I'm speaking from I C U nursing experience here, but that's the reality. And I kept thinking to myself, do I have a hot mess career? It's my career, a hot mess. And when you look at it through this lens, like I've had so many different jobs, and I'm sure many of you have too.
Regardless whether you're at the start or whether you're a seasoned, beautiful human. So I kept being told, stick to a roll up. Stop job hopping. Get clear and stay put. You will ruin your career. Who's heard all of these things? And I was like getting really, really terrified and scared. So, Me being me, Liam, having a very overactive brain and being the empath in emotional sponge that I am, I was having heaps of thoughts and feelings, right?
I was thinking, I don't fit in. I can't stick at anything. What do these people think of me? I have no plan. I'm definitely not good enough. I don't have the skills. I don't know what I like, I keep trying all [00:07:00] these things and I'm still trying to find the thing. Where is the thing? Is somebody gonna give me the thing?
And I kept thinking, why does everybody else have it all worked out? Little did I know they don't. If you, yeah, so there's a surprise and I was feeling all of these feelings, right? I was confused. But then the next day I'm excited cuz I've got a new opportunity. Then I was overwhelmed, then I was driven.
I was just like an emotional rollercoaster as I navigated my career. I kept thinking to myself, it should be different. I should have a plan. I should be working towards something, when in fact, I wasn't really working towards anything. I was just going with the flop. So I did a lot of personal development work.
I did a lot of coaching. I had a lot of therapy, and I kept coming up against this fight that maybe it's okay. Maybe it's all right to just be. Or half a hot mess career. So I read this incredible book, if you've not read it, it is an incredible book, big Magic by Liz Gilbar. She's the author of Ire Love, phenomenal book.
If you're creative, you will love it. And she talks about [00:08:00] separating the world of work into these two very simplistic terms, jackhammer and hummingbird. In Simply Boot, she talks about jackhammers being those people that just know from the minute that they draw their breath. From the minute they're born on this earth that they just know, it's almost like they just, they just know they've got this plan and they're gonna work towards it, and they just keep digging.
They just keep going and going and going and gathering the depth of information, skill, knowledge, experience, until they become so specialized at something. And I couldn't really resonate with that. Cause I'm like jack of all trades, master of none. And I think a lot of nurses really do lean into that belief.
But there are some that love being a jackhammer, right? So there's no right or wrong here, but jackhammer didn't really fit for me. Of course jackhammers, of course, still have troubles on the way to the goal, right? It's not clear. Come. And then the hummingbird really deeply resonated with me, and it also looks much prettier, but the hummingbird, in Lizzie's terms, the hummingbird is [00:09:00] like this beautiful cross-pollinating creature that just flies and picks up some flies to one flower, picks up some neck, down, some pollen, and then flies to the next.
And cross pollinates and keeps doing that, gathering all this nectar and pollin in the nursing context, gathering these skills, knowledge and experiences, and moving on to the next organization, next role. And I thought to myself, oh my goodness, I am definitely a hummingbird. So I'd love for you to let me know.
Which one resonates with you most? Are you a jackhammer? Do you have a hunger and thirst for depth of knowledge? Or are you a hummingbird? Are you a cross-pollinating, multi-passionate clinician who loves flying from one organization to the next, collecting all of these beautiful experiences? Like I said, there's no right or wrong.
There's no good or bads, but it's just good to know, right? And this gave me such power and some freedom cognitively to be like. Who said this was a problem. So from this aha moment, I learned a couple of powerful lessons, right? [00:10:00] Outsourcing my career decisions to others, especially random Facebook groups and random strangers on the internet was always gonna be a bad idea.
So step away from the keyboards, okay? Unless you're sending me a personal DM and I'll give you one-to-one support. I was shooting on myself all the time. Not shitting, shooting. Shooting on myself all the time. I should do this. I should do a master's. I should do a PhD. Oh, you know, that person applied for the CN and they've been there.
You know, they say less time than me or should apply, so I stopped shooting on myself. It was impacting my health and wellbeing. I was burning myself out. I kept thinking it was the system, the hospital, the organization, the people, the bullies, all of those things contributed. But I was compounding the drama for myself.
So I had to take that responsibility and I was beating myself up because of lack of compliance with the plan. Because you know, as clinicians we're a stickler for policy and protocol, and I wasn't sticking to my own policy and protocol. So I started thinking, how can I approach career planning in a [00:11:00] different way?
What if I just embrace the fact that I am an incredible, multi-passionate, cross-pollinating clinician? I think that that should be on everybody's cv, right? What if that's just who we are at our core? Why is that a problem? Maybe it's all about getting comfortable, being uncomfortable, and that was what I've learned to be true up until this point in my career, and that self-awareness is the key in instigating or the key missing piece in what most people don't spend the time on.
Because it's hard because we're gonna look internally. To establish what it is that we truly wanna be doing, that lights us up. So I love this idea of like having a care plan for our careers. Think about your care plans for your patients in whatever setting you work in. They're not rigid in nature.
They're flexible and adaptable, and most importantly, that H word holistic. They're holistic and the same applies to our nursing career. I'm already over 10 minutes, see how did I do this in 10 minutes? It's incredible. Okay, so I design and came up with this four P [00:12:00] approach to career planning, and it's super simple and you can do this on a bit of paper for yourself.
So number one, step number one is perceptions. Step one and two is what people tend to forget. Or even touch in the process of making a career change or career planning, if we're gonna go down that path. Step number one, your thoughts and beliefs about what is possible for you. Here we're talking about what stories are you telling yourself about your career?
What thoughts do you believe consciously and subconsciously that are holding you back from moving you forwards? Okay. Very, very important. First, a step. If we don't look at what's happening internally, how can we change or how can we expect the external world to meet our needs? It's just impossible. I've tried it 15 times.
Don't do what I did. Step two is all about our passions. Now passion is fleeting, right? Some days we're passionate about being an earth. Some days we absolutely detested. Yes, I said, so. When we think about passions, I want you to think about tuning in in the moment. When you are just in the [00:13:00] vibe, you are feeling yourself.
You are like, damn, I'm frigging good. Now, if you not have many of those moments, maybe it's time to book a call with me and have a chat about your career and where you're at. But I really want you to get conscious, real conscious in the moment, for example, When I'm coaching, when I'm teaching, I'm in my stride.
I can just feel it in my body. I just have the energy for it. I love it. I could do it all day long and it just lights me up and I can feel that viscerally in my body. I feel pumped after I've done it. where does that come? Up for you? Is it in, you know, I don't know. Is it, in running a clinic and being autonomous, is it in, really doing a really thorough patient assessment?
Is it in documentation? It could be anything. Is it wound care? Is it in teaching? Is it quality improvement? What is that? Or is it just in interacting with your patients? Is it real simple? It's really good to tune into your emotions and your passions in the moment. Okay, so, so important. So we've gone thoughts, feelings, and then step number three is pathways.
This is where most people start their career planning journey, right? And this is where I kind of think [00:14:00] career planning is a little dead if we don't do step number one into your potentially creating or taking a new step in like a different direction. New job, new pathway, same brain, same human, same thoughts, same feelings, right?
So we wanna raise our awareness to steps one and two. So that step three becomes all about what is actually possible for me. What is out there. And I don't mean like just your locally possible. I want us to go cray cray with the ideas here. I want us to think about what if I could do anything.
Because you can. You totally can. What if I could do anything? What would it be? And I want you to like play with possibility. The other day when I presented this, people really resonated with this idea. Just because you're playing with possibility doesn't mean that you have to do it, right? Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
So I want you to just give yourself full permission to just play. What would go wrong if you just let yourself just play and say, I could be a Don. I could do this, I could do that. And let your brain go wild and then see what is actually [00:15:00] available to you. Because most of us just believe there's like two or three options.
There are millions, well, not millions. There are thousands, hundreds, thousands of options. I say millions because when I Googled aged care and gerontology nursing career pathways last week in Google, it gave me 181 million. Search items. So you know, that's why I said millions, but there's probably not millions.
So that's pathways. Step four is permission to plan. This is where you give yourself permission to actually start creating a holistic career plan for yourself. Okay? Gather all the info, give yourself permission, and start creating a career plan from an informed place. Imagine creating a care plan for your patient.
Without knowing anything about them, that is what you're doing when you're trying to career plan without knowing the depths of what lights you up, what you're passionate about, and what's stopping you from moving forward. Okay,So I use this Example the other day because I was talking to Gerontology nurses and aged care [00:16:00] nurses, but it applies across the board.
And we've worked with, you know, hundreds now, nearly 400 nurses to help them transition within their career. Whether you're a grad student grad, or you're a seasoned, beautiful human that just wants to change and pivot and apply for something new. So, I want you to meet Jake. Jane went from RN one to R N two.
So for those of you that don't do RN two R N three, it's cn, right? Clinical nurse or clinical nurse specialist. She was an incredible clinician. She had over 30 years of experience, right? She came to subacute rehab gerontology, so in subspecialty here in Australia in 2017, and she had this deep desire to progress to being an RN level two.
in the job, but she'd deployed multiple times and luckily for her, I was her nurse unit manager after she had applied for these jobs. So I saw an opportunity here to really help her uncover what was stopping her from moving forward. And of course, like she's got 30 years experience.
I definitely want her to be applying for these jobs, right, with this depth of knowledge and experience. So let's dive in. So when we apply the four P approach to Jane, Jane [00:17:00] number one, perceptions, look at all the things she was telling herself as we sat down and mapped this out and said, Hey, what's stopping you from applying for this?
she just gave me a whole bunch of thoughts, right? And this is what happens. our brain offers all these thoughts to us, and we think they're factually true. So she believed, she genuinely believed. Can you believe it? That she didn't have enough experience. She has 30 years. 30 frigging years of multi-passionate, cross-pollinating international experience as she doesn't have your enough.
Are you kidding me? Come on. I'm not the best Tim leader who said you have to be the best. You just have to be good. You don't have to be the best. I don't have the poor squad. It's a desirable, it's not an essential. Okay. Why is that stopping you? I'm not ready. No one's ever ready. Okay. Like, see how our brain just gives us all these reasons why we can't.
And it's like, hold on, let's just challenge that in a kind, respectful, compassionate way. I have no other options. Totally incorrect. Could have been an educator, could have been a cdn, could have been a clinical nurse, could have been a clinical nurse, could have moved into a non-clinical role, [00:18:00] could have been the director of nursing, right?
She doesn't know cuz she's not even tried. She's applied for what? One job, there's more opportunities out there. I don't know that I want to deal with pressures, and this is like a rational fear, right? A lot of us have this fear and it's a thought, right? And it creates fear for us or worry of stress or overwhelm, and that's something that we can also work on, right?
So a few things that I want you to note here is that she's possibility blocking herself, right? I mean, of this term, but she's possibility blocking herself. She's already failing ahead of time. She's just decided. Right? And I know some of you, somebody said this the other day, oh, you know women suffer from imposter syndrome.
I was like, yeah, so do men. We all do for sure, like we all suffer from imposter syndrome. But is it a good enough reason to stop you from moving forward? Right? Like we're all imposters at every stage all the time. Just embrace it. I'm an imposter. Tell yourself I'm an imposter. Of course you are. That's totally fine.
Jane's brain was busy collecting evidence. Because she believes she's lacking, right? And she is deeply underestimating her capability. Her, she [00:19:00] has untapped potential, but she's just not even thinking that it's possible. So this is normal. This is where most people come to come and work with me, and they're like Liam, and they gimme all these reasons why they can't.
And it's totally normal cause your brain wants to keep you safe. But it's also 100%. Optional. Right? Because I already gave you the flip side of all of these potential thoughts that she could choose to believe is is true. But she's believed these thoughts probably for the 30 years of her nursing career.
Maybe she was told them, maybe a bully told her this. Maybe the last job that she applied for told her. This doesn't mean that it's factually true. And I want you to think about where in your career you are doing that to yourself also, right? Cuz it's optional and that's a beautiful, beautiful thing. I don't know how I did this in 10 minutes, but you're getting the depth here today.
They didn't give the depth. You're getting the depth. So the second part of Jane's story was passion. And I said, oh, what are you passionate about? What do you love doing when you're in the moment? How do you feel in your body? Like, what really lights you up? What could you be doing all day long running around?
And you'd leave and you'd like, damn, I nailed it today. this is what she offered. Great team leader [00:20:00] enjoys delegating care. She's the specialist. She loves the depth and the evidence in applying that. She likes educating and supporting the graduates. She's passionate about hand hygiene. She's contributed quality improvement.
Can you see what I'm seeing here? She's a perfect fit for RN two and clinical nurse. Amazing. So few things to note. She started gathering ideas. She started identifying her strengths just through this process of like, what do you love doing? She started proving to herself that she can potentially maybe do this, and that's why we need a little spark of possibility, right?
She was lit up as she was talking to me. I could see it in her face, and I see this all the time. People just light up internally and I have to point it at. She convinced herself and she saw her scope. And then the third step is about pathways, right? The third step is all about what could you possibly do?
Let's remove this just one job. What else could you do? And we came up with all of these, and this is not a comprehensive list. We came up with all of these potential pathways. She could apply for all of those right [00:21:00] now. Totally could apply for all of them and we just tailor and apply her applications accordingly.
And our interview technique, she has the depth knowledge, skills and experience. And I don't care whether you've got three days of experiences a nurse or you've got 30 years, the same is true for you. There are so many options out there, and it's all about how we transfer and sell our skillset. So few things to note here.
She allowed herself to play with possibility without the pressure to take. Action. You don't have to take action. She could decide at this point, she didn't want any of them, and that's totally fine, right? You are always, always in control. She stopped focusing on the how. How many of us think of a goal like, oh, I could be a director of nursing.
Then you're like, oh, but no, I need a, I need X, Y, and Z and I need 15 years and I need this and need that. Let's remove the how. Do not think about the how at this stage, because the how only becomes important when you actually get to like the interview stage or move forward. Let's not block ourselves from a potential pathway or possibility by focusing on the how right now.
Like give ourselves the [00:22:00] options. She gathered proof that all of the paths were possible, right? She used that critical thinking, that great skill that we have as nurses to play with possibility. Without the pressure to take action. And then this fourth step, permission to plan. She practiced believing you thoughts.
She saw that those thoughts that she had previously were not serving at. And I'm curious about what thoughts you have that are not serving you too. I have them. We all have them. We have 60,000 of them a day, believe it or not. And those thoughts will stop us from taking the next step and we'll do what I call.
Failing ahead of time where we just decide ahead of time without any actual real evidence, except from our subconscious thoughts that we ain't good enough and that's not true. So she practiced believe in new thoughts, which is an intentional practice. I am good enough, I can do this. I have everything that I need.
Okay, your brain's not gonna believe it, but if you practice it over time, it will. Cause a belief is just a collection of thoughts believed over a period of time. Okay. If you can believe that you're not good enough, you can believe that you are good enough. So powerful. She questioned her [00:23:00] pathway. She saw abundance of options.
She reclaimed all her power and stopped giving it away. To the dawn or to the a dawn that said no to her. And I was like, hold on. I'm gonna reposition and reaffirm and I'm gonna go after what I want because it's my goal. I don't care about the rest of the people. She opened herself up to risk and failure.
So, so important. Right? So important. And she increased her chances of success, and so growth in exploring and applying. Literally the worst thing that can happen to you when you apply for a job or you move within your career is that you get a no. And that just generates a thought and a feeling in your internal system.
That's it. Nothing else. So if the worst thing that can happen is a thought and a feeling. If you just practiced experiencing all the thoughts and all the feelings, you got this, you can do it. It's so easy. So of course she got the job right and she was so, so happy. And it literally, she was like 30 plus years into her career, longer than that.
And she, this was her first promotion. Can you believe it? Incredible. Her beautiful, multi-passionate [00:24:00] international cross-pollinating. A clinical experience. Incredible. So she got the new job. She got the career alignment and growth. She built self-belief, but I want you to notice that there's more to just career planning than getting a new job and moving and more money and all of that.
There are so many other strategic byproducts. She increased her failure tolerance by taking a risk. She taught herself that it's okay to open yourself up to fail, like that's totally fine. We need to debunk that. Idea that we can't fail as clinicians. She improved the culture of growth for herself and her team.
People that looked up to her saw the potential in their career. If she can do it, I can do it. She improved her financial growth, right? She got a new pay point. She increased patient safety cuz she's the best person to be in that job and she supported the team. Imagine, just imagine. If she hadn't used the four P approach and she had not given herself permission to apply, imagine if she hadn't looked at those thoughts and tuned into what she truly, absolutely loved and saw that her brain was offering her lots of reasons why she shouldn't [00:25:00] and no reasons why she should.
We've gotta balance that brain act. Okay, So as we wrap up, I really don't know how I did this in 10 minutes, as we wrap up, I really want to leave you with a couple of questions. What if this is the modern nursing career planning approach? Maybe it's what we've all been secretly doing behind the scenes, but none of us want to talk about it cuz we don't wanna break the rules.
But I'm here to break the rules and to push buttons and to get you thinking in ways that serve you and not the organization, right? Because. You know, they're not thinking of our best interests all the time. So what if career planning isn't so much about knowing the how, knowing the step by step plan, having this direct linear trajectory towards the goal, but instead, it was about you inviting all of the discomfort in, of not knowing.
And pursuing our paths, right, quote unquote paths, whatever path that might be, even if it looks like an ED nurse's IV infusion lines from a place of self-awareness, self-inquiry, self-knowing, and self-confidence. [00:26:00] Because when we do that and we raise our awareness to the thoughts that we have that are blocking us, I call it career blocking, blocking us from moving forward.
And we explore what potentially could be the passion the passions that we have and how we feel we allow ourselves. To operate from a place where we have more possibility. That is what I've been found to be true. When we operate from thoughts like, I'm not good enough. I'm not worthy. I can't do this.
Your world is so small. But when you tell yourself, I can do anything. And I've got my own back. Even if it fails your options and your role just becomes so much bigger. So what if that's the approach? What if it's just about us allowing ourselves to be multi-passionate, cross-pollinating clinicians? Think about the beauty of how that would transform the industry.
Many of us already doing it, but many of us are beating ourselves up for doing it. I would love to know what, you're doing or what's coming up for you. So as we wrap up, what is one insight that you can take away from today and [00:27:00] apply to your career planning? I mean, even if you want a career plan, I mean, I still to this day don't have a career plan as a career coach, and I think that there's such beauty in being so flexible and adaptable with it.
But I'd love to know, wherever you're watching this, tell me one thing, commit to tell me what you're taking away from this. And in conclusion, I want you to remind yourself that career planning is not linear. And we've proven that true today, right? This is what we think and this is what we actually end up with.
And isn't it beautiful, isn't it amazing? Career plans are flexible and adaptable. Just like our patient's care plan. Imagine if our patient's care plan were rigid, like we'd be having people dropping left, right, and center. We've gotta be flexible and adaptable and offer that to ourselves as well. And holistic.
Bringing in the fact that you are a human who, nurse seats. Not just a nurse, you're a human who nurse you. So we've gotta invite in the humanness, the thoughts, the feelings, and then the best career path. I love this. And plan is the path that you create [00:28:00] intentionally. We've gotta wake up. We've gotta wake up so that we can be aware of what it is that we actually wanna create.
Yes, there are so many things going on in the industry. There always has been. There always will be. And then what? What do you want to do? Let's be intentional about the career that you want to build that serves you and you only. And you do it on your frigging terms, so, You can ask questions, you can send me a dm.
You can pop a little thing below here in the comments and ask a question or just tell me what really resonated with this. You guys all know who I am. Make sure you check out the podcast. If this has resonated with you today, please let me know below or send me a message. I love, love, love to hear cause I want to do more of this kind of stuff.
And if you are somebody that is thinking. Hi, this triggered something within me. It is time I'm holding myself back. Whether you are a student, a graduate nurse, whether you are a seasoned nurse, whatever situation you're in, book a call with me. I love chatting to nurses. There are absolutely no pressure calls.[00:29:00]
It is for me to get to know you. You to tell me your story and me to give you some insights on what I think could be possible for you. It's a little play with possibility little career coaching chat. And then we can take it from there if you think that it's a fit. And if, there's no need for us to work together, I will be the first to tell you.
Alrighty. So booking a call. Let me know what you think. And let me know if you want me to do more of these. It's been an absolute pleasure. Authority minutes. Oh my goodness. I can't believe it. I tell you. I dunno how I did it. Anyway, thank you so much for your time. I really, really appreciate it. And if you think this would benefit people, let them know.
And let's embrace modern, multi-passionate, cross-pollinating career path planning.
