Quality of Life

Nurses have a great deal in common with family caregivers. Both selflessly give up their energy and time to care for another person(s). Both require daily patience, compassion, and resilience. And both often put others before themselves.  As nurses, embracing the family caregiver is just as important to the well-being of our patients as caring for ... more

By Linda Roszak Burton If you knew expressing gratitude to a fellow nurse would improve their health and yours, would you do it more often? Logic says you would, however research shows the existence of a gratitude gap in the United States – we consider ourselves to be grateful, yet a significant gap exists between feeling grateful and actually ... more

By Eileen T. O’Grady, PhD, RN, NP Dr. Eileen O’Grady is a certified Nurse Practitioner and Wellness Coach who uses an evidence-based approach with people to reverse or entirely prevent disease.  With over 35 years of experience in health care, she believes deeply that more attention must be paid to getting us unstuck from lifestyles that do not support ... more

Anxiety at work? Eileen Carino, Clinical Director at Griffin Hospital, recommends acupuncture and aromatherapy. How can we do more to take care of ourselves in the workplace? That’s the question we continue to ask as we put our patients first (and ourselves last) day in and day out. There’s only so much time in the shift, yet so much to do. It’s not unusual ... more

Explore what having a nurse mentor, or being a mentor to someone else, can do for you. To be the best version of ourselves, we need to feel emotionally safe. The same is true at work. Emotional safety is a precondition for productive relationships, even in the workplace. Nurse mentorship helps create those emotionally safe relationships. Having a nurse ... more