2010-03-12T23:48:48Z http://blogs.nursingshepherd.com/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2009-12-09:d2a2f128-1e77-40a4-a85f-c2d01aaf1550 Emma Soy 2009-12-09T21:15:00Z 2009-12-09T21:15:00Z This is not a sales letter, as a matter of fact I have a great e-book that I want to give to you for your library.My name is Emma Soy, let me introduce myself on a personal level. 19 years ago I had a University degree, a nursing license and and a burning desire to climbed up the clinical ladder, receive a lot of nursing recognitions and make a lot of money... I was planning to have a family.During the first several years that I was in the nursing I took a few of the top nurses out for lunch, ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2009-11-30:70794bee-d958-42bf-8a37-7bebf5aafa6c Emma Soy 2009-12-01T00:38:00Z 2009-12-01T00:38:00Z You know, I think I am a lot like you When I got out of nursing school in 1990, I really had this sense of adventure. I wanted a job that I did not have to work weekends, nights or holidays. I wanted a job with minimal stress, well paying job that I can express my life purpose, challenging and growth opportunities. I wanted to be able to work less and make more money, to have more time to spend with my family and more time to accomplish some of my life time goals like pursuing higher degree or ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2009-11-16:9cf437b9-5cde-459f-be84-cb0e4dbbc21d Emma Soy 2009-11-17T02:56:00Z 2009-11-17T02:56:00Z Have you ever heard of a nursing career consultant? I am Emma Soy, Rn a Nursing Career Consultant. Looking at my title, you might be asking yourself what in the world is a nursing career consultant?The thing that you might not know about me is that until a few years ago, I did not even know what a nursing career consultant do until I met a very successful young lady in her early 30’s who introduced me to her career consultant, and explained to me how she turned from a plain business degree student with an MBA to the extraordinary ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2009-11-09:867dcff3-b143-4435-8595-92c1b4b120d8 Emma Soy 2009-11-09T23:59:00Z 2009-11-09T23:59:00Z Nurses, has your work become nothing more than a paycheck? For many nurses, work is nothing more than an activity that consume time while waiting for days off in between, holidays, vacations, retirement; and for many others, their primary reason for working is to meet their financial responsibilities. After being in the nursing field for more than 18 years, I discovered that nursing can be and should be a fulfilling, enjoyable, and financially rewarding field. Recently, I was thinking about this career path that we call nursing, and the word enjoyable is far from the words that we would ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-07-23:74ad215a-db13-4929-8b9e-b8fd76b99dbf Emma Soy 2008-07-24T02:18:00Z 2008-07-24T02:18:00Z Many nurses enter the nursing profession with no clear goals, beyond getting their first job. It is no wonder that those nurses find themselves after five to ten years in nursing unfulfilled and burned out. The process of building a nursing career should begin with your first job, and the basis for picking your first job should be base on a clear career purpose. If you do not have a clear career purpose, you should begin this process with defining clearly, and specifically what is it that you want out of your nursing career.You should set timeline for ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-07-23:fc7cb7b8-3647-4f3f-968e-7f7c653c3be8 Emma Soy 2008-07-24T02:15:00Z 2008-07-24T02:15:00Z Would you consider yourself to be a good nurse? If I would ask this question of nurses around the world, they all would have the same answers; of course “I am a good nurse”. Often when we are speaking of a good nurse, we are usually referring to the nurse’s professional skills, but amazingly over the years as a nurse I have come to realize patients have a completely different definition of a “good nurse”. It’s been said that people do not care about how much you know as much as they want to know how much you ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-04-21:80502262-0439-4d07-b366-b71d5f9c65b2 Emma Soy 2008-04-21T18:41:00Z 2008-04-21T18:41:00Z Today I want to talk to you about the topic of being an instant millionaire to stir up some feelings that you probably been suppressing about your current nursing career. If you won a million dollars today, how would your life change? Would you quit your current job? The difference between a job and a career is that a job is you exchanging your time for money, and a career is something that you would do even if you received no monetary reward. A good career assessment can simply begins with this question, and if you find yourself ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-02-27:611e956b-5ff1-4451-b29b-e73e8bce35e2 Emma Soy 2008-02-28T03:11:00Z 2008-02-28T03:11:00Z As we are facing yet another brutal nursing shortage nursing leaders should thrive to pass a really important leadership test, which is the law of legacy. Legacy means to pass something immaterial from one generation to another. The ability and willingness for nursing leaders to reproduce themselves in other nurses is very important in our efforts to attract and keep people practicing the nursing profession. Leaders who seek to reproduce themselves in younger nurses should do so very early in the career of the younger nurse. They should be pro-active in looking for the future nurse ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-02-15:ca298c97-5a25-480e-95c9-f3413cbf82e0 Emma Soy 2008-02-16T00:00:00Z 2008-02-16T00:00:00Z According to Brian Traci, “Perhaps the greatest discovery in human history is the power of your mind to create almost every aspect of your life.” Everything in your life today started as a dream, a wish and a hope. If you are unhappy with your current nursing position you have what it takes to turn it around. The best place to start is to figure out what you want in regards to your career, focus on how to achieve it, and top talking about what you do not want, the problems in nursing, or blaming ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-01-09:16d89896-91f9-4f27-829a-7c038ae90584 Emma Soy 2008-01-10T00:24:00Z 2008-01-10T00:24:00Z Nursing is great, but it is a very stressful profession to be in. As a nurse, we are consistently being pulled in different directions. Everyone seems to think that we have the answer to all their issues and problems, and usually we try our best to service everyone, every department or physician who seeks our assistance. At the end of a long day or stressful week, it is not uncommon to find many us complaining about the job or the profession. I have been a nurse for over 17 years, and I have never ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2008-01-04:86bb25d9-5552-4ffb-ac18-9c416be2acdb Emma Soy 2008-01-05T03:22:00Z 2008-01-05T03:22:00Z I have been a nurse for over 17 years, but it was not until about six to seven years ago that I began to take responsibility for my own career development. I always relied on my nurse manager to prompt me to what I needed to do for career advancement. After many years of working long hours, overtime and bonus shifts, I realized that I was not growing and nursing was becoming very boring. If you are facing the same issues today, I want to encourage you to make 2008 the year that you take ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2007-12-19:39037954-9559-40d7-9b46-46769df075d1 Emma Soy 2007-12-20T01:15:00Z 2007-12-20T01:15:00Z I was working with my husband last week in the small office that we share in our home, and while we were working I encountered a specific problem in a project that I was working with. After trying to solve the problem on my own, I turned to my husband for some assistance which he also had no answer for. Later on that night he contacted his brother in Georgia to elicit some advice which also did not help us solve the problem but brought us closer to a possible solution. Well to make a long story ... tag:blogs.nursingshepherd.com,2007-12-17:19c276c7-e2e3-4bc3-9878-1e5827b2c8f9 Emma Soy 2007-12-18T00:47:00Z 2007-12-18T00:47:00Z Couple years ago when I decided to return back to school for a master degree in nursing I was amazed to see many nurses at the bedside were not very supportive of my decision to return to school. Master prepared nurses that I worked with at the bedside told that it was not worth returning to school mainly because the pay is much better at the bedside than anywhere else. It is true that the annual income for nurses at the bedside today is considerably higher due to the chronic staffing shortage, but it is not necessary because they get ...