Beat Nurse Burnout | Holistic Wellness, Stress, Burnout Recovery, Fatigue, Identity, Healing
Aug 11, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
You can assess a whole unit in thirty seconds... but when's the last time you assessed yourself? In this episode, I'm breaking down the five signs of nurse burnout that don't look like burnout at…
Shan WrightHost
I want you to think about the last time you clocked out of a shift and made a decision based entirely on what you needed, not your patients, not a coworker or the charge nurse.
not a new grad you're precepting, not your own kids who have been waiting for you for 12, 13 hours, but literally just you.
We don't come out of the shift and ask, what do I need right now? What does my heart need? What does my body need? What does my mind need? And so if you've paused and you don't know the last time that you did that, then this kinds of nurses that this episode is really going to hit home for.
Like I said in the intro, you have Googled nurse burnout symptoms or at 2 a.m. on shift or when you can't sleep in the middle of the night.
You're wondering this feeling, is it normal? Then there is another nurse that's listening right now and you are so deep in autopilot, you don't even know how to ask the question.
Okay, so go back to episode 240 where I recap all the autopilots and how you can see them in yourself.
Okay, so back onto this episode, which is for both of those nurses and all of them, all of you in between, because somewhere along the way, high achieving nurses and leaders, we stop leading our own lives and start managing everyone else's.
You manage your patient's vitals, of course, co-workers' moods, the unit's morale, the family's whole nervous system, and the sneaky part because burnout is sneaky.
There's a mask that naturally is going on you in the morning as soon as your eyes open and you don't even realize you're putting it on and you don't even know you're taking it off.
I want you to think about the last time you clocked out of a shift and made a decision based entirely on what you needed, not your patients, not a coworker or the charge nurse.
not a new grad you're precepting, not your own kids who have been waiting for you for 12, 13 hours, but literally just you.
We don't come out of the shift and ask, what do I need right now? What does my heart need? What does my body need? What does my mind need? And so if you've paused and you don't know the last time that you did that, then this kinds of nurses that this episode is really going to hit home for.
Like I said in the intro, you have Googled nurse burnout symptoms or at 2 a.m. on shift or when you can't sleep in the middle of the night.
You're wondering this feeling, is it normal? Then there is another nurse that's listening right now and you are so deep in autopilot, you don't even know how to ask the question.
Okay, so go back to episode 240 where I recap all the autopilots and how you can see them in yourself.
Okay, so back onto this episode, which is for both of those nurses and all of them, all of you in between, because somewhere along the way, high achieving nurses and leaders, we stop leading our own lives and start managing everyone else's.
You manage your patient's vitals, of course, co-workers' moods, the unit's morale, the family's whole nervous system, and the sneaky part because burnout is sneaky.
There's a mask that naturally is going on you in the morning as soon as your eyes open and you don't even realize you're putting it on and you don't even know you're taking it off.
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