Result 5 — You're Burned Out, Not Done
Your answer: you haven't lost your love for nursing. You're burned out — and those are not the same thing.
Please read that again. Burned out is what happens to nurses who care — who kept showing up, kept carrying it, and ran their tank dry doing it. Done is something else. Your answers don't say done. They say depleted.
I won't sell you a pivot on an empty tank. A new role, a new skill, a whole agency — none of it holds if the nurse underneath it hasn't rested. So this result doesn't come with a program. It comes with people.
Every Wednesday at 7 PM ET, working nurses gather in the Shot Callers Huddle — to exchange resources, talk honestly about the hard parts of this work, and remember they're not the only ones carrying it. No pitch. No pressure. Just nurses, being real with each other.
And when your tank has something in it again? Your other answers pointed somewhere — a direction worth exploring when you're ready. It will keep. Come find it then.
Your one next step: Come to the next Shot Callers Huddle. Just listen if that's all you have in you. That's enough.
Wherever you landed, you landed somewhere honest — and that's how good plans start. — Monica Holmes, LPN · Founder, The LPN Elevation Academy