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In this series “Reclaiming the Fine Art of Listening Well in Healthcare” Tom Hills, SVP, Laudio welcomes Cynthia Clark PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN. Cynthia is a Strategic Nursing Advisor to ATI Nursing, Founder of Civility Matters, and has been a nurse for more than 35 years. 

It's easy to get sucked into the drama of everything that's happening around us when we go to work every day. It's also easy to feel overwhelmed and underprepared. There’s changing technology, changing policies, changing people...the one constant is change. Sometimes it feels like the world is full of “villains” and you wish you had a superpower to counteract all the uncertainty and negativity.

Leadership though, is all about change right? So we should be good at it, right? Probably not to the degree of change that is needed now. We need a new paradigm that creates new ways of thinking. I call this Phoenix Leadership.

I remember a cycle/yoga class at my gym where the instructor asked us to think of one positive word about ourselves. She said to focus on this word while we were doing sprints on the bike. What a great energy producer. I felt my energy level shift into high gear (just like the bike did)

According to the CDC, “in simple terms, well-being can be described as judging life positively and feeling good”. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Nurse leaders can take “HEART” by fostering staff resilience and well-being to help them navigate through uncertainties during crises.

Events like COVID-19 can increase stress; thus, taking steps to proactively safeguard your and your colleague’s well-being to foster resilience is essential.