The Nurse's Nurse: Staying Healthy & Fit While Caring for Others

The Nurse's Nurse: Staying Healthy & Fit While Caring for Others

This book seeks to destroy the classic cliche of the nurse: the caring professional always looking out for the well-being of others while neglecting their own health. Today’s nurses face many obstacles in their quest towards health. The author draws from her personal challenges faced as a night shift nurse in an inner-city hospital to highlight some of these difficulties. The Nurse’s Nurse is a blueprint to become an empowered individual and role model of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness for your patients, your community, your family, and, most importantly, yourself! It provides practical solutions in order to bridge the gap between the knowledge that all nurses have about health to the authentic experience of well-being. Discover the powerful but practical tools provided in this book in order to overcome the challenges that many nurses face in the quest towards vibrant health! This book will show you:Common obstacles that busy nurses face, both at home and at work, while providing detailed strategies for healthy eating in each setting.Strategies for starting the fitness habit, and continuing it, even during a busy work day caring for patients! Practical ways to heal yourself as the practitioner while helping patients to heal.Important tips to eliminate the unnecessary waste of resources that often occurs in hospitals across the US.Strategies for creating a life where you can thrive individually, while having a rich family life, and contribute to the well-being of your community.How to navigate common “detours in the road of life”.How to create a personalized comprehensive plan of action which incorporates learned strategies from each chapter.Useful tips for practicing in the current pandemic.About the AuthorKalyca DuBose MSN, RN, CCRN, ACNP-BC is an acute care nurse practitioner currently specializing in cardiothoracic surgery, previously in infectious disease. She also has a strong background as a cardiothoracic surgical nurse and a holistic health practitioner. She is passionate about educating audiences about practical ways to prevent many common acute and chronic diseases that plague modern society. Empowering people in achieving vitality through wellness of the mind, body, and spirit is her mission. Kalyca is a professional speaker who lectures to a wide variety of audiences on topics related to self-empowerment, preventative health and wellness, and infectious diseases in an easily understandable way. She is the creator of MediMugs™, unique and educational drinkware for healthcare professionals, sold at www.medimugs.com. Kalyca is also co-creator of The DuBose Self-Empowerment Course, an innovative course, offered live as well as in an online format, designed to facilitate positive personal transformation. She maintains an active blog at www.bodymindenterprises.com.