I'm currently working on getting ANCC contact hours for the course, so stay tuned!

The course will be available once I've had at least 50 conversations, to ensure there's enough volume in your voices and that you are heard -- and listened to.  My hope is to have this available, including the initial community and webinars, in early 2025.

That is something you can make sure happens by your active interest, and especially by sharing this web page with other nurses who may want to make a difference.  So please, send the link to this page widely within your teams, workplace, and nursing organizations.

For several years, I've taught courses on burnout prevention.  They have been very well received and effective, with participants learning what burnout is, how to change it if it's already here, and prevent it coming back.

This new course is intended to help nurses specifically with what you encounter every day.

Lots of reasons, including the fact that nurses have not had the chance to recover from the burnout that reached critical levels during COVID.  Without adequate support for nurses, healthcare itself is at risk.

In my own encounter with illness, including life-threatening cancer, the most compassionate and helpful people were nurses.  I want to give back, you deserve it.

While my previous programs to help with burnout have, in a word, "worked," they have been based on decades of research on burnout without focusing on nurses.  So the interviews are to fill in the blanks on your needs, and have already been quite beneficial in what will be included.

Note that the interviews are completely confidential and done in private, only you and I are present when we speak, and no one else has access to our conversation.

That depends on you!

What you share in our confidential interviews -- more like conversations about what's going on for you with burnout -- informs me about what should be included, and what must be included.  That's getting added to my list of building blocks for the course, which already includes things like:

• Recognizing the early warning signs of burnout.
• Creation of a Personal Action Plan to address the unique conditions causing burnout in your life.
• Lifetime access to a supportive online community of nurses for sharing of experiences and ideas about how to change what's causing burnout -- including monthly live online webinars with the community, and the opportunity to have small group conversations.