When tasked to develop a program to build resiliency in a target population within a demographic area, I chose to target nurses in the United States. I couldn’t narrow down my geographical area because this is a nationwide problem. The southeast seemingly the worst. Being an ICU nurse for the past twelve years I have noticed a shift in priorities. Most of us became nurses because we are healers, we truly care about other people. Yet, in the span of my nursing career I have noticed that it no longer matters about the patient in the bed. All that matters now is doing more with less, all the while expecting better outcomes. It seems impossible because it is. Burn out, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and suicide are very real afflictions to the nursing industry. Yet, we are the most trusted profession for the last 19 years.
The name of my program is Bring iT, short for Building Resiliency In Nurses Giving It Their-all. The program is a website designed to target all four levels of the CDC Social-Ecological Model. Individually it would have ways, links and articles, to improve life for yourself. On a relationship level, it would connect you with people like you who understand. All the while helping with your own personal relationships. For the community level, it would bring together a community of nurses to help inform and advocate for the communities we belong to. On a societal level, together we can make changes to Laws and Policies that affect us. Safe staffing laws in every state. This would not only improve our work environment, but benefit the institutions and the people we work for, the patient in the bed.
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