Editor’s Notebook

Happy Nurse New Year! It’s 2023, and time to turn your resolutions into attainable goals!

Some of your goals might be to get away from the stress and burnout, while others want to learn new skills and take on a new role. The sky is the limit for today’s nursing professionals with advanced degrees to define success on their terms by creating the career they truly want.

If you’re considering a career pivot, be sure to have a process in place so you can continue to grow your career in ways that fit who you are today and who you want to become tomorrow.

Here are a few points to consider as you begin your nursing journey in 2023.

• Discover your strengths. What area of nursing do you excel at to make the best use of your talents and skills?

• Decide what you want. For example, do you want a better work-life balance, higher pay, more flexible work schedule?

• Research careers and salaries. Consider annual compensation, work hours, and benefits that address your needs.

• Consider more education and training. Advanced education is key to creating the career you want, so check out online nursing programs that fit your lifestyle.

• Become a nursepreneur. You have the training, skills, and education, so why not leverage the professional skills you’ve built as a nurse to become a liaison to your clients and provide needed, valuable services to your community?

This month, Minority Nurse focuses on leveraging your RN to BSN, nursing careers, and nurse residency programs.

• Beginning an entrepreneurial nursing path begins with an RN to BSN, and Julia Quinn-Szcesuil details how advanced degrees clarify goals and help you earn more valuable skills.

• It might seem a bit overwhelming when you’re a new nursing graduate starting a new job, so Michele Wojciechowski profiles nurse residencies and how they can help.

• The darkest days of COVID brought ethical conversations to the fore. Louis Pilla explores the role of the clinical ethicist in 2023.

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Reneé