What I say to people that are asking like 40 different nurses for their opinions is to stop doing that and kind of go within and listen to what do you want?

Do you want to work in a specialty?

Maybe you don't even know what that specialty is.

Apply to a couple different ones and see which one that you get picked for and go from there.

And go with that's exactly what I did. I did not know I wanted to be a cardiac nurse, let alone an electrophysiology. Like I had no idea what that even was. And once I got into it, I loved it. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to the selfie show, you guys. It is fun Friday. Many of you know this this I have dubbed July and August self-care months and this nurse just needs a minute you know I just I want a refresher I need to take a step

back and really do something for myself so I did something that I have never done and I treated

myself to a micro-needling session

with my girlfriend Ari. So for many of you who have listened back, Ari came on for episode

number 19 and she is a cosmetic nurse, also a cardiac nurse, and she does all things aesthetic nursing

here in L.A. And I'm talking Botox, lasers, fillers, all the fun stuff, right? And I just really

wanted to treat myself to this. So long story short, my face looks very red. But what I'm getting at

is it felt good to do something for

myself. And obviously, we're not really able to do all the things that we want to right now. I would

love to get a massage. I would love to do my acupuncture. However, that's really not the case right now.

You really can't do that. So, but I was able to go do this for myself and visit with a girlfriend

of mine, Ari, and it was really fun. And what I'm getting at is it is really important to

replenish yourself as a health care provider. And I'm not just talking nurses. I'm talking everyone

in health care. And what better person to bring on to talk about this than Miss Lacey Megan,

the OG nurse mentor? You guys, I've known Lacey here in this space on Instagram for years now.

I want to say back to 2017, 2018, when I originally got into this space and really was intentional with the Instagram,

creating and curating my blog, and then, of course, now the podcast.

So I've known her for quite a long time.

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