0:00:12.2 Professor Walden: Hi guys. Welcome, welcome. Hope that you are here and you are excited as I am to talk finally about burnout. I am excited to speak with you about this. I think it is long overdue, I think it is a conversation that needs to be had, hence you are hearing it all across media and the inter-webs right now. However, I do believe that we are missing some points, which is why I decided to come and present this to you today. So as always, if you guys don’t realise, I will be respectful of your time, so hence we are gonna get started right now. But I just wanna make sure again, that you understand, there’s gonna be some exciting things here. I’m gonna give you some tangible things to address so that you can personally address burnout in your own situation. I realise that we may have some nurses, some NPs, and maybe even some other healthcare workers watching today, and that’s perfectly fine. Even if you don’t work in healthcare, it doesn’t mean that you have not experienced burnout or that you will not experience burnout. Burnout is universal.
0:01:24.3 Professor Walden: And so either way, this webinar is useful to you, in order for you to, again, have tangible ways to deal with this in your life and in your situation. So I’m excited to have this conversation with you, so we can go ahead and move forward here. So hopefully, everyone’s doing okay, and you can hear me just fine, if you can just type in a “Yes” on the comments and that will be wonderful, and that way I know that you can hear me and everything is good and we are ready to go. Fantastic, thank you so much for doing that.
0:02:01.8 Professor Walden: Alright, here we go, guys. So there’s also going to be some exciting things that I want to tell you about as well. So here we go. Welcome, welcome. It is Professor Walden here, and I am a nurse practitioner. I am an entrepreneur, I am a mom, I am a wife, I am now an athlete, I am a homeschool teacher, I am all of the things, so happy NP week. So if anyone can talk about this subject of burnout, that would be me. I am so excited that you’re here and you’re taking the time to join us, even if you just have to turn us on while you’re riding in the car, or just taking an evening walk, I thank you for that. Today we’re gonna be talking about burnout. I know, I know you are hearing about it in the news and social media and everywhere around, and people are helping you to figure out what burnout is and how to combat it, likely not. Right? So they’re giving you a lot of nice, pretty fluffy things to talk about, but not really giving you kind of this nitty-gritty, which is where I want to jump in at. It’s usually some fluff that you hear that says, Let’s do some self-care. And you see people with things on their face and going to the spa and well, yes, that does help to combat burn out, I’m definitely gonna give you more than that today.
0:03:24.5 Professor Walden: So today you’re gonna walk away with some tangibles that will help you to actually figure out whether or not you are dealing with burnout, and then how to make those decisions that will help you move away from feeling like that. Alright, so I am excited. There are some exciting things also at the end of this webinar. So at the end of this webinar, there’s gonna be some announcements, and I’m hoping that you will stick around for that, so super exciting to have the announcements at the end. But first and foremost, before we dive into all of this, I just wanna say congratulations to these folks. So congratulations, they won Starbucks gift cards that we have been giving away on social media for NP week, so the LWES Team wants to send a huge congratulations to Crystal, Lisa, Wanda, Kay and Lucy. So, hope you’re enjoying your drink and you’re having a good time with that, get a snack too if you can. Alright, again, like I said, stay tuned because at the end of this, we will have some freebies and some giveaways, and I’m sure you’ll wanna have access to that as well.
0:04:38.2 Professor Walden: Again, tangibles are gonna be really, really important for me here to give to you, so I want you to make sure that you stick around so that you’re able to get them. Plus, we are going to announce the big winners of our Hire Out the Help contest for NP week. So what is that? And what is Hire Out The Help? Well, it’s been a contest that we’ve been having on social media channels, because part of what I want to do is normalise having help and understanding that you don’t need to be in a certain tax bracket in order to have that help. So what is that requirement? You need to ask yourself, “Do I need help? Would my time be better spent somewhere else doing X?” For example, cleaning, yard work, laundry, whatever it may be, if that answer is yes, then it’s time to start searching for help. If you ask yourself, “Do I hate doing X?” And the answer is, in fact, yes, then it’s time to hire out the help. So we’re just kind of shoving you off a cliff with this contest and into the ocean, so we are initiating that with a contest, and we can’t wait to see who the winners are, so stick around towards the end of this, and hopefully all of you who participated will get a chance to see your name, so we’ll see.
0:06:10.0 Professor Walden: Alright, so let’s go. So what is the current state of affairs of burnout right now? So let’s talk about what’s happening today, the climate, the pandemic healthcare workers, where we’re at, the whole nine yards, so we’re gonna discuss the current state. So it’s well known that nurses deal with a high amount of stress due to the physical labour, human suffering, long work hours, staffing shortages, difficult interpersonal relationships related to their day-to-day duty, it’s not a secret, but it seems like it’s just gotten worse. So this concern has gone back in the nursing industry, stemming back as far as 70 years, so quite frankly, the US Department of Labor conducted an investigation into stress and burn out way back in 1947. So that’s one of the first research papers that I have seen on stress and burnout in the nursing industry. So this has been around for a long time. That report, the economic status of the registered professional nurse, found that small salaries, long work hours, poor conditions, lack of retirement pensions, the unlikelihood of promotion made nursing an unattractive job, and quite frankly, we are still seeing a lot of that today, but it’s a little bit scary because it’s not improving, and again, this has been 70 years that this research has happened.
0:07:47.9 Professor Walden: When is it going to get better? Where are we at? There is still a heightened sense of anxiety. We have a lot, a lot of nurses that are now leaving. Just leaving the job site. They are tired. It is exhausting. And then you compound and you put a pandemic on top of that, and you have where we are now. It is not a fun situation, and 85% of nurses, despite it all, say that they would do their job again, they would come back and come back into this calling, and it’s very interesting to see that because right now, I’m not sure that some of us could say that. We are exhausted to the point where we don’t know what else to do, and we are ready just to simply walk away. So again, we are still in a pandemic, make no mistake, just because the vaccine is here, we are still here, but the numbers have been declining, even though we’re starting to see an upward trend. So the seven-day average of daily new COVID cases is 74,000, around there, which is about a 5.1% increase from the last seven-day period. The seven-day average for hospitalisations as of two days ago is around 41,000. We’re still largely seeing the Delta variant that is running rampant. For nurse practitioners, there are 325,000 of us out there right now, which is a rise of 12% from last year.
0:09:31.2 Professor Walden: Over 80% of us are in practice in primary care where the average salary is $117,000. The biggest demand is obviously right, in primary care. In general, 93% to 95% of nurses are happy that they have chosen this career path and 85% say they would do it all over again. Now, here’s the bad part. So for the bad part, three out of five nurses report difficulty in sleeping, 51% of us report feeling overwhelmed, 48% of us report feeling anxious, 48% of us also report feeling irritable in the midst of this pandemic. During the pandemic, nurses had the highest death count rates among US healthcare workers, and according to Mental Health America, nurses were less likely to receive emotional support to deal with the stresses of COVID than other healthcare workers. This is essentially why we’re here and why we’re in this situation, we have not moved in the last 70 years, like I said. If we ask nurses who have gotten in the industry, who have been in the industry for about 50 years, I’m almost positive that they will say it’s gotten worse. I remember a nurse I looked up to who has since passed away, said that, “Baby, we’re long gone from the days where I’m able to rub my patient’s feet or give them a massage.” She said, “I just don’t have the time for that anymore.” And that’s where we used to be, that’s where they say they want us to be now, but it’s not where we are currently.
0:11:22.6 Professor Walden: So with that being said, it seems that all of us, NPs, RNs, other healthcare workers, non-health care workers, we’re all dealing with burnout, but what exactly is burnout? So it is a psychological phenomenon characterised by a reduction in energy, it manifests in emotional exhaustion, there’s the lack of motivation, there’s feelings of frustration, and it may lead to a reduction in work efficacy and work-related stress. So a 2006 World Health Organization, WHO, reported and addressed the issue of healthcare providers shortage, particularly the shortage of nurses, which we know is running rampant, and how it will interfere with the national and international efforts to enhance the health and well-being of the global population. This burnout phenomenon that they’re calling it, leads to cynicism towards clients, towards colleagues, we just don’t wanna do anything and it’s simply because we’re tired. It may arise from work overload, we are doing too much, we are too short. A lack of resources, we don’t have enough to do our jobs with the right tools to do our jobs. Control, or lack of justice, things are just not fair, there are some value conflicts and the absence of a sense of community.
0:12:52.6 Professor Walden: All of this is just a fancy way to say, these three key things, you have emotional exhaustion, you’re tired, it’s a state of physical… Of just being physically and emotionally exhausted by work stress. You deal with what they call de-personalisation. It means you legitimately start feeling negative about your colleague, your teammates, you simply stop caring about them and you begin to detach yourself from the organisation, and you tend to have low personal accomplishments. We’ve stopped going above and beyond, we do enough just to stay above the radar and still give good solid care to our patients, because you feel like your organisation doesn’t deserve that from you. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress. So it’s most often caused by problems at work, it can appear in other areas of life such as parenting, caretaking or romantic relationships. This stuff filters through, but let’s just be real, it is not just in the nursing industry. Right now, we are hearing about the great resignation. I laugh and I joke that nurses have been doing this for a decade. A study showed in 2019 from the Journal of Nursing Regulations, says that one in four RNs have a second job, with 7% of them saying that that second job is a whole other full-time job.
0:14:29.7 Professor Walden: So we are used to working hard and working long hours, but it seems to have gotten different these days. The survey has also found that 37% of respondents working two nursing jobs, say that working multiple jobs have negatively affected their quality of life. Now granted, this could have several variables that feed into why this is happening, such as they’re working another job because they have another pay rate, or they have some personal liabilities that they need to attend to, but again, why do we even feel the need to have that second job, which there are a lot of reasons why we do that, but regardless, this flexibility also has allowed you to leave your primary job if you are not happy. So we’ve been doing this great resignation as nurses for years. So I chuckle when I see the rest of the world doing it. This in turn means that most nurses, especially when you first enter the industry, work more than 36 hours a week, that is our normal. I’d like to address the fact that burnout is in every industry. In general, people are working more than 47 hours a week. One in five employees are working 60-plus hours a week. Vacations. What are that? They’re habitually not taken.
0:16:00.6 Professor Walden: So yes, we could leave the industry and find something else, but will that really solve anything? Is the question. So this is where this webinar starts to differ and take a turn from what you usually hear. So what I want to do is I wanna control what we can control, so that’s first and foremost, let’s say that. Let’s control what we can control. Let me discuss burnout personally and what it looks like in your life and how you can address it with some tangible action plans. Some you’ve heard, and some that you have definitely not heard before. So before we jump into those solutions, what does burnout look like? So it looks like this. It could be, again, a reduction in energy, insomnia, we’re not sleeping at night, headache, fatigue, you’ve stopped caring what you look like and taking pride in your appearance, you are depressed or just completely sad all the time, you’re crying. Raise your hand if you’ve pulled into the parking lot as a nurse and just sat there, or even if you weren’t a nurse, that you’ve pulled into the parking lot and you have just sat there and cried in your car because you didn’t wanna be there or the anxiety just to walk into the building was too much.
0:17:28.5 Professor Walden: You’ve hit the snooze button too many times, you’re eating your feelings or not, which can in turn create rapid weight gain or loss, you have palpitations, meaning your heart just rapidly beats or it has an off beat that you just can’t explain, but only really shows up when you go to work. So all of this can lead to increased call-outs, absenteeism, which is what that is, turnover rates, and you’re just consequently having negative effects on quality of care and the quality of your life. So what I’m telling you is that burnout, it can manifest as physiological and psychological symptoms and can have actual harm to your body. Are you suddenly dealing with acne when you are 45, and you’ve never had acne before, this is a concern. Is your hair falling out? Or thinning? Are you short-tempered? Are your nails constantly breaking? Are you suffering constantly from headaches when you arrive at work, but suddenly and magically disappear once you leave? Your body is having a visceral reaction to stress that it is about to encounter.
0:18:49.9 Professor Walden: So while we hear about burnout and how, yes, you become depressed and sad and anxious, this can so easily begin with physiological symptoms first, that we don’t even notice because we’re so used to running at this high burnout level that we’re completely missing it until we’re in tears in the parking lot. Your body is giving you warning signs well, before you fall off the cliff, and we have to stop ignoring it, we have to start listening to it. We’ve usually missed these signs well before and it has already trickled down and it’s starting to affect our psyche and our interpersonal relationships, and they’re causing a lot of damage. So you have to pay attention to your body.
0:19:39.6 Professor Walden: So this is gonna be one of the only times that I mention what to do about burn out when you are at work, in this webinar, and with that being said, I wanna start by saying, at the core of this, this is about you. So at the heart of this, this is about you and what you can tolerate. Alright? So keep that in mind. So if you realise you are experiencing something at work and you are choosing to stay, one, I want you to be more vocal about your work environment, one of the things that I’ve noticed in healthcare is that workers love to gripe on social media or in the confines of their own homes or with their girlfriends and with their guy friends instead of letting the folks who can fix it know, and that doesn’t mean that we have to be unprofessional when we address it, but then when they ask in meetings or they ask in morning huddles, you have to talk. You have to open up your mouth. They cannot read your mind.
0:20:47.8 Professor Walden: Please don’t be concerned with, “She’s the one who’s going to say something.” What you are trying to do is make it a better experience for yourself. Remember, we spend more time at work than we do at home. So I don’t know about you, but I want a good environment when I go there. So also, there is strength in numbers. So let’s agree that in a professional manner that we will support who is ever saying something that is valid and support those who are being vocal, if you do not want to say things in public, please, there are other ways to go about it. Send an email, write an anonymous letter and slip it under the door. As a former administrator who was that first before I became an RN and an NP, it is important that you hear me, you have to put these issues in writing as it forces them to address the issue. It’s one thing to say it, but when they have it in writing, it means something. Deniability is a thing that I’ve seen other administrators use to their advantage, so be vocal about it and put it in writing, because if you don’t care, then neither do they. So remember, your silence is an agreement.
0:22:14.7 Professor Walden: Now once you’ve done all of that then set a deadline, a reasonable deadline. Please don’t feel bad for asking for a follow-up date or hearing back on those changes that you’ve had with that initial conversation. Remember, most of you work at a very large organisation, which means they move really, really slow, so while we want changes, we also wanna hold them accountable and to a reasonable timeline. Your happiness depends on it, but this is a deadline that you will also set in your head, so whether it is three weeks or three months, how long are you willing to reasonably wait for change and that you’re not going to allow to affect your mental health any longer? That’s the date that you need to put down and be ready to stick to it. Start making your plan. Now, if nothing changes by that deadline that you have put out, dust off your resume and start looking, make the decision, because you cannot stay. It is not fair to you nor to the organisation. Your mental health is on the line. And their morale, whatever that may be, is no longer you’re concern. So you finish your role out, be professional, do it with enthusiasm, and feel free to move on to your next destiny.
0:23:39.1 Professor Walden: If they have an exit interview, please make sure that you participate in it, but be honest, because you never know if you have the right HR person who’s gonna take that information and feed it back so that they can actually make changes. Another way that you can start addressing the burnout that is happening in your life, let’s be real about the situation, social media is a lot right now. There’s a lot of things on social media, there are a lot of lies, there are a lot of truths, there are a lot of highlight reels, and then there’s not, so I want you to take a break, I want you to break up with social media. Now, I need you to take those things with a grain of salt, if you cannot break up, please understand that this is somebody’s highlight reel, they are only giving you and showing you what they want you to see, so if their whole entire feed is full of sunshine, rainbows and unicorn farts, then that is what they want you to see, please don’t believe that they are not going through something because likely they are.
0:24:56.4 Professor Walden: But if you are like some of us who cannot take a break from social media, curate your feed, so that means stop following the super skinny Instagram fitness model because it gives you anxiety, because you’re desperately trying to look like that and nothing is happening for you. That’s just making you angry and making you hate yourself. We’re done, we’ve got enough going on at work that we don’t need to put some added stress and pressure on ourselves, so if you ever look at your feed and you look at the post and go, “Who is this person? And why am I following them?” If the answer is yes, or you’ve had that question, hit the unfollow button, unfollow them and find someone else to follow or don’t. Take it down to a minimum level and make it, just see things that fill your soul and make you happy.
0:25:55.9 Professor Walden: Now, you’ve seen all of these before. And this is not new information, the next slide, but if you are looking for someone to give you permission, that would be me. So if you are truly, truly feeling burned out, you are experiencing all of those symptoms that we previously mentioned, and then some, I am personally giving you the permission to leave. That’s right, you are worth more, but more importantly, your time and your happiness is more important than any dollar you’ll ever earn. So you are allowed to leave your position and find something else that makes you feel better.
0:26:40.9 Professor Walden: And you don’t even have to stay because you’ve been there X number of days, X number of weeks, months, please do not be concerned, make your plan and find something else, because the longer you are unhappy, the more we bring down what is happening in that organisation. You deserve more than that, and your organisation deserves more than that. It is unfair to you, and it’s unfair to your organisation that you stay. So please go ahead and leave. So here are the things that you are seeing in the media that combat burnout, right? And they are all valid, and we can add stuff here. They’re all absolutely valid. You have the therapist, taking long weekends, vacation, exercise, we can add things like meditate, hair cut colour change, a nice walk, Sunday outside, go to the spa, but let’s kinda take a little bit and talk about three of these things, vacations. It’s late in the year right now, and it’s a good time to take a look at next year and plan a vacation.
0:27:56.7 Professor Walden: And can we just kind of talk about the idea of not taking our vacations? So no, that’s not a thing. I don’t want you to make it a thing. It’s not a thing. Take your vacations. If your vacations are being addressed with toxicity, book it anyway, give your dates and go anyways, they are a reset for you and your family, and everyone at minimum needs one vacation per year. Too often we are hearing, find your own coverage or it must be nice when you go on vacation. And you know what it is nice, I’m going on my vacation. Also, finding your own coverage for a vacation that you have put in for months in advance is toxic, so if your organisation is doing that, then your employer is not looking out for your own mental health and well-being, and it needs to stop. So remember, a healthy employee is a happy employee, which leads to better outcomes, there’s actual research that has proven this. So please take your vacations. I don’t care what they say. Take your vacations. Exercise. So if you’ve been following me on my journey, you know that I’m a big proponent of movements, you know, I love to try to lead a fairly healthy lifestyle, that doesn’t mean that I don’t like to have my fun and I probably do things that I likely shouldn’t, but I inherently understand and now rely on those healthy endorphins, which give off this side benefit of managing my own anxiety and keeping me in shape. So besides sunshine, movement and workout partners, they all make you feel good.
0:29:49.9 Professor Walden: And if you do, like I do, which is train for half ironmans or triathlons or just in general running races, when you realise that you have a schedule and it makes it very easy for you to commit to having time to yourself. I have to tell you that there is something really special about being lost in your own head and not thinking about anything besides forward movement or breathing, or just surviving until that next movement when it’s 6 o’clock in the morning by yourself. And the other one that I want to mention that I feel like is so important is therapy. Therapy, therapy, therapy. Sometimes we need an unbiased person to voice our feelings to, who can help us come up with strategies to handle it, this is where you need a therapist. I’m gonna say it again. So if you’re not aware, this is where you need a therapist, and if you are not currently in therapy, you probably need to be. This isn’t the previous generation. Therapy is a necessary evil, it is a necessary thing. With all the noise that’s happening in the background, it will help you process through those big emotions that you were likely never taught to deal with in the first place. It’s no longer taboo, guys, and you can love Jesus and still love therapy. They are not mutually exclusive.
0:31:22.7 Professor Walden: And again, therapy is that one place that for an hour is solely and completely all about you, it’s where you even have a person who is redirecting it to a conversation that focuses on you, so spare that moment and find yourself a therapist, the cost may or may not be the issue, but understand that most insurances now cover mental health for at least 12 months, and then if you pay in cash, I’ve seen as low as $100 per session. They are out there. I spend that time, I spend $100 getting my nails and feet done with my daughter, so if I can do that, surely I can spend an hour a month focusing on myself. So it’s not unreasonable for you to do this. So it’s time, guys, if you don’t have a therapist, let’s find one. Now, here we go. What else is tangible that you can do? We are going to hire out the help, give yourself a break. Let’s normalise that we need help. You’re in school full-time, or you have a job and a family to take care of and you’re working full-time, it’s absurd to expect for you to be able to handle all of this on your own.
0:32:49.0 Professor Walden: Even if you have a partner, and even if you don’t, my God bless you, because you are doing all of this alone, but let’s normalise taking back your time in order to take care of yourself. It is not a rich people thing. I’m going to repeat myself. It is not a rich people thing, it is a smart people thing. You are entitled to re-prioritise your life and housekeepers, believe it or not, they are not $200 and $300 y’all, use your Nextdoor app, ask around, you’ll be surprised at who has a housekeeper. Ask your real estate agent, trust me, they know someone, and you can find a housekeeper that can come to you for 100 bucks or so a month. It can be done, but again, you have to open your mouth and we have to request it. Meal prep, they do this for families guys, instead of spending a ton of money on groceries, you don’t eat, redirect that money to meal prep and use any left overs to buy snacks. Boom! You’ve got dinner for everyone and you haven’t lost yourself after an 8:00 to 8:00 or 12-hour shift running to the store trying to fix dinner for everyone.
0:34:04.4 Professor Walden: The second part of this is, “No” is a complete sentence. That’s it, end of story. So “No” is a complete sentence. It is also a muscle that has to learn to be flexed, start saying no. We are going to give you help in understanding how to do this on this next slide, but lastly, set boundaries, this is a hard one for folks. Have hard stops, learn not to eat quickly in 15 minutes, that is a boundary when you are on break at work, your food is meant to be enjoyed and not give you heartburn. Slow down, the work will be there when you return. If you don’t wanna go to a family function then don’t go, if you don’t wanna participate in the employee potluck then please don’t, there’s nothing wrong with understanding that your time does not allow you to do all of the things. It will also help you in setting boundaries, this will also help you in learning to flex number two, that “No” muscle. Please understand that people are going to say things. This is not you being selfish, this is none of that, this is you taking back your time and re-prioritising for yourself, I am going to do better for myself.
0:35:27.7 Professor Walden: So let’s talk about values because this is an important one. Remember, I said learn to say “No,” this is how we do this. This will be available for you to download and complete at your convenience, all you’ll need to do is put in your email address in the link, which we will post for you, and then it will be sent to you, so you’ll get these documents in your email for free. So values denotes the degree of importance of something or action, and it aims in determining what actions are best to do or the best way to live or describe significance of different actions. So they are basic, fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate you with your actions. They help us determine what is important to us, so what we are going to provide you with is a value sheet, and for those of us who need help saying “No” or determining if this move is the next step or is this best for us, this is a guide to help you do that. Once you have gone through this process and chosen your values, every decision that you make will come down to you looking at the five final values that you have chosen for yourself and understanding, “Does this push me closer or further away from my values? Does this align with the values that I have chosen for myself, which represent the characteristics that I find the utmost important to myself?”
0:37:03.1 Professor Walden: So for example, it could be as simple as, “Should I go on the family vacation that they are planning for next year?” Apply your values to this scenario, does it satisfy those requirements, if so, then book your ticket, you’re going, if not, politely decline and understand that you are doing what is best for you, no matter what anyone says. You say it and drop the rope, meaning you don’t engage in any more conversation, because “No” is a complete sentence. Or it’s something like this, my girlfriends wanna go to the bar on Friday. If my values include positivity, intelligence, thoughtfulness, order, this may or may not be something that aligns with your values of going to the bar with friends, you just may be at a different season in your life, and that’s okay. Just politely decline or accept. If you decline, look for the next adventure. And remember, your values will change during the different seasons of your life, so come back to this periodically so that you can ground yourself and always making sure that you are moving in alignment with your life’s vision.
0:38:23.2 Professor Walden: So what we have done here and what you will receive in your email once we get your email, is we’ve compiled a list of values for you, I want you to take this sheet and find 10 minutes to complete it. You’re gonna first start by circling 10 of these words, go through, read them all, choose 10, and then at the bottom of this sheet, we’re going to have you re-prioritise and choose only five, you will end up with your top five values, and these will be the values that you will use to assess every decision until it becomes second nature to you. It’s a very simple way to help you flex that “No” or that “Yes” muscle.
0:39:14.3 Professor Walden: So again, get ready to flex it. At the end of the day, this is for you, these values are your life alignment, and it’s how you want to live your life. If I told you that you aren’t actually burned out, but you’ve just forgotten how to live in alignment with your values, what would you say? Really think about that. So what’s next? What we’re gonna do now is we’re gonna make an action plan, so we gave you some tangible things to do in this webinar, you’ve gotta identify whether or not you are having burnout, and then what I want you to do is I want you to pick one thing from each action area, write it down on a sticky note, put it on your mirror, phone notes, phone screen saver, white board with a marker or a marker on your bathroom mirror, that’s one of my favorites guys, is to write little sayings or notes or anything that you need with a wipe off marker on your mirror, so it is always in your face, right when you see it.
0:40:23.9 Professor Walden: So you’ve got some work to do, especially if you are feeling burnout. You do not have to feel this way, remember I am giving you permission, you do not have to feel this way, let’s make a plan and let’s do it. One of the other things that you’re going to receive from us, if you put in your email, is you are going to receive this mindfulness calendar. It is a little freebie, it is something that takes five minutes of your time, and it allows you to refocus every day, because in the midst of all of this noise, we are having a difficult time re-focusing on ourselves, we’re beginning again, to get caught up in the hustle and the bustle of life, and that’s what I don’t want you to do. Don’t get caught up where you start to begin to lose yourself again, it is one of the sure fire ways in order to lead and leading to burnout. So this gives you one thing per day, and it simply just gives you something that takes five minutes to do every day to just kind of re-center yourself so that you can be mindful and kind of manage that anxiety.
0:41:38.1 Professor Walden: Alright. So with that being said, we also want you to find a community. If you don’t have one, we are going to have a free option for you, we’re gonna present to you be LWES communities. So we are going to have free communities for you on a different platform other than Facebook, so if you have been waiting to leave Facebook, now is your time. So if Facebook ever goes down again, don’t worry, we got you. So we are going to have free LWES communities. Again, put your email in and you will get information in the next coming weeks about that. There will be a paid option as well as you know, I have the first private nurse practitioner community as well, and so in there we do a lot of masterminding and education, a lot of education and there’s a lot of information for you. The next time that we open that cohort will be in January, so we’re hoping that you will join us, there’s a bunch of us in there now, and we hope to see you there. Always, always feel free to follow us or me on social media, and so you can kind of see my shenanigans that I am doing, and you can also see again, you see that other side, which is the work out, the exercise side, and all of the good bad and sometimes the ugly of what is happening with LWES and within my life.
0:43:06.5 Professor Walden: Now, if you have no other questions, I am going to move to the exciting stuff. So first and foremost, we are also going to be posting a quiz for you, so are you burned out? Again, another tangible just to help you see if you need help figuring out if you are burned out, it’s important that we address this head on and that you realise if you are or if you aren’t, so that you can make an actionable plan. The last thing that I want to do is send a big hearty congratulations to team NI. I wanna send a big congratulations to Sandra Stevens for winning our hire out the help contest. So again, Sandra, if you are watching or if you end up watching this at a later date, please make sure that you touch base with us so that we can get you your prize, and remember you can choose from a housekeeper or going to a spa or what all the things that you can choose from, we are excited to help you start to initiate this process of understanding that you need to be taking back your time and re-prioritising your happiness and your life.
0:44:25.5 Professor Walden: So with that being said, I am so excited that I got the chance to talk to you guys, and hopefully you were able to understand what burnout is and you heard some things that were really different. I’m highly, highly encouraging you all to get those free tangibles and those documents from us, and we will be posting the link where you can put in your email everywhere, so we’ll make sure that we grab it for you. And you should receive it pretty much right away. I’m excited for you, and I am excited that you are addressing this on your journey. So with that being said, I appreciate you for joining us and for joining me on this burnout webinar, and I hope that if you need anything, anything at all, that you can always always, no matter where you are in your nursing journey, you can always reach out to LWES and the team and we got you. Alright, so if you need us, please reach out, otherwise, I’ll see you soon, bye.