Less Than Three Months
She graduated at the top of her class with every advantage. Less than three months into hospice nursing, the system traumatized her.
Dr. Lorre Laws shares the story of her own daughter, Megan, a summa cum laude new grad who chose hospice and was traumatized in under three months despite every possible support. The episode names the pattern behind new-graduate nurse attrition, walks through four of the seven nurse-specific traumas from Foli's framework, and makes the case that 76 percent of what the profession calls burnout is actually trauma.
What you will hear.
Up to 30 percent of new grads leave within their first year. 37 to 57 percent are gone by year two.
96 percent of nurses carry at least one PTSD symptom. Nearly 1 in 4 meet full diagnostic criteria.
Two nurses are assaulted every hour in the United States.
Foli's seven nurse-specific traumas, and the four Megan hit in three months.
Why the diagnosis has been wrong for five decades.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:12 – My Daughter's Story
1:31 – The Pattern: What Happens to New Nurses
3:05 – The Science Behind Nurse Trauma
3:37 – The Data: A Workforce Being Consumed
5:38 – Invitation: The Nervous System Reset
6:52 – Seven Types of Nurse-Specific Trauma
8:59 – Getting the Diagnosis Right: Healing What Actually Happened
9:43 – Nursing 2.0: What Becomes Possible
11:07 – Closing: Who Heals the Healers?
