Your Next Shift: How to Kick Your Nursing Career into High Gear

by Elizabeth Scala

Are you happy with nursing, or does your career need a push to make it truly satisfying? Elizabeth Scala, MSN/MBA, RN, takes core business elements and applies them to both clinical and entrepreneurial nursing. Combining practical advice with the application of positive spiritual mindsets, Scala reveals how to take your nursing career to the next level. The result is an innovate approach to career development that results in an increased love and enjoyment of your chosen career. Written in a conversational, upbeat style, Your Next Shift offers the tools nurses need to eliminate career-stifling mindsets, replacing negative thinking with universal laws designed to evoke positive change. Each chapter ends with a series of self-reflective questions to help nurses plot their own courses towards the careers they want, not merely the jobs they have. Stop settling for adequate when awesome is possible.

Genres: Nursing

161 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2015

About the author

Elizabeth Scala holds bachelor's degrees in nursing and psychology from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in business and nursing from Johns Hopkins University. She is a certified health and wellness coach through Wellcoaches and the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, as well as a Reiki master teacher.

Her career experience includes working as a nurse in adult inpatient psychiatry, running an exercise program for physician-referred clients at a community health center, and working on a nursing research fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, before becoming an entrepreneur at Nursing from Within.

Now, she brings innovative new ideas to the nursing profession as a speaker, author, workshop and retreat facilitator, and virtual conference host in addition to teaching Reiki to nurses.

She lives in Maryland, with her spouse and their one dog, where she enjoys the beach, jigsaw puzzles, gardening, yoga, Reiki, and dancing to her favorite jam band, moe.

Reviews

[K.M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first heard of Elizabeth Scala when she joined RN FM Radio. I didn’t know how much I was missing a female voice on the show until she arrived (yay!). I didn’t know she was an author right away. I started following her on social media and that’s when I became aware of the breadth of her nursing activities.
I knew from watching her on Instagram that Elizabeth made fun a priority in her life (I do, too!). I started reading her book yesterday afternoon, and if I hadn’t had an evening commitment, I would have finished it last night. Anyway, it was less than twenty-four hours later that I turned the last page. This book resonated with me on so many levels. The ‘Just for today’ philosophy that I first learned to practice after my Reiki attunements was one of the first moments that I knew I was in the right place reading this book. I love that Elizabeth is so honest in her description of her experience travelling the path of refining and expanding her own nursing practice to help the rest of us know that hey, we aren’t alone! Other nurses feel under-confident and under-brave and under-decisive, too! And this: “Maybe you’re just not that happy being a nurse anymore because you actually feel like your job doesn’t let you be one!” Hello? That was one of my first “Aha!” moments after transitioning from nursing practice in school and nursing practice in real life.
For years, I have been working on integrating my spiritual practices into my nursing practice and in this book, I feel like I have found a kindred spirit, another nurse who really gets it. Another nurse who is doing this, too.
I also love the quotes that were scattered throughout the book, including Susan Jeffers’ “Feel the fear and do it anyway,” a phrase that I find myself saying over and over these days, mostly to myself.
While I was reading "Your Next Shift", I felt like I was having coffee with my nurse-BFF.
I highly recommend this book for anyone. Read it.