When Is It Too Much?

Every person has their limits. Every Nurse should have a personal wellness policy to prevent injury, illness, and compassion fatigue, those well-known slippery slopes to poor patient outcomes.

We have the knowledge and understanding for optimal health. But, it’s so easy to exhaust ourselves for those dependent on us, that we forget to care for ourselves.

It is all too often that we do not realize we’ve exhausted ourselves until we experience a poor outcome.