No is a two edged sword. 
Consider this: It's possible to be so focused on protecting YOUR schedule with "no" that you miss God's agenda for you.
Continuing education is an essential part of a career in nursing and is required to keep a license and vital to keeping skills fresh. The trick is finding the time to get these continuing education hours in and still have a life outside of work. Balancing a personal life and work is hard enough without additional time demands.
College courses can be huge time commitments. These usually span a whole semester and many have strict attendance policies. Online courses offer a less time intensive option, however you are on your own to learn the material. No one is presenting it to you. So, what is a working nurse to do? That is where nursing seminars come in. These are chances to get some much needed continuing education in a shorter amount of time.
Some seminars may be offered at the workplace. Others may take place at local or regional conferences. These are designed around convenience and pack a lot of information in a small space of time.
Another positive to nursing seminars is the focused nature of this type of training. A seminar usually focuses on one particular area of nursing. A college course is general and covers all the topics included under the course title. A nursing seminar may focus on one new technique or piece of equipment. A seminar may present the newest research available. It can be focused on new developments in patient care or ways of dealing with colleagues and the stress of the job. No matter the topic, there is much to be gained by attending seminars.
Rubbing elbows with others in the field is another benefit of these seminars. It might be co-workers in the same hospital that you don't see because of opposite shifts or colleagues in other hospitals or clinics. Keeping these connections fresh can pay off when they are needed. These people have the same work-related interests and concerns as you. They are great sounding boards for new ideas and great support in times of need.
Many seminars offer a chance for the give and take of information. Some presenters will open with an idea session, asking for audience participation right off the bat. This is a chance to get answers to questions that may have been lingering. It is also a chance to bounce ideas off colleagues and those higher up in the field. Some seminars, the smaller ones, are set up as a roundtable discussion, with the sharing of ideas as a central theme. This meshing of minds and ideas is a common formula for the development of sound policies and procedures.
The skills and information gained from the seminars can usually be put into practice immediately. Whether it's a seminar to help prepare for testing or one on the newest technique used in critical care for cardiac patients, the information is relevant to what you are doing right now. Learning how to use a new piece of equipment or the steps of a new procedure will pay off in less confusion and less of a learning curve for everyone involved. Patients will benefit from this new found knowledge, as will colleagues and employers. The skills gained could lead to promotions and extra responsibilities or perhaps even more pay.
Seminars are designed to be focused and many times are delivered in smaller group settings. Some seminars may be delivered in large lecture halls with less give and take. These should be approached like any lecture and the information taken back and shared with the group at work. This is where the ideas are generated and implementation takes place. Small group seminars, such as those that come to you, offer more immediate feedback and idea generation, however, this sometimes leads to missing some information or seminars running long.
Nursing seminars are similar to any other seminar. The goal is to present an idea and get the information out in a short span of time. Those who are interested in more detailed information can then explore the ideas through additional courses or classes. Many new and innovative ideas are presented in seminars. It is a good way to spark interest in these new technologies or ideas. Nurses who attend may find equipment or techniques that would enhance their work with patients and can take those ideas back to their supervisors for possible implementation. This shows a supervisor that you have initiative and are committed to the patients.
Nursing seminars are great opportunities to get those much needed continuing education hours in short time blocks, but they are so much more. They offer opportunities to network, share ideas, develop new ideas, enhance patient care skills, and bring back ideas for change in the workplace. Seminars are ripe with opportunities to advance your nursing career and make you a better nurse.
Continuing education is an essential part of a career in nursing and is required to keep a license and vital to keeping skills fresh. The trick is finding the time to get these continuing education hours in and still have a life outside of work. Balancing a personal life and work is hard enough without additional time demands.
About Author:Megan Hazel is a freelance writer who writes about topics concerning the nursing profession such as Nursing Uniforms.
Naps may help the heart by relieving stress, researchers say, noting that a study found the effect strongest among workers. The researchers studied 23,681 people in Greece who, at the outset, had no past strokes, cancer or coronary heart disease—the most frequent cause of heart-related deaths, including heart attack, the most common cause of death in most western countries. 
1. There's a connection between the smile on your face and the number of hoops you choose to hula.
5. While everyone has a differnt number of hoops they can hula, you can't hula every hoop. 
9. Other people will try to make you hula their hoops. 
In the spiritual life, the word discipline means 'the effort to create some space in which God can act.' Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.
--Henri Nouwen
If you are going to intentionally and proactively take charge of your life and time, not only must you learn to say no to obvious time stealers in your life, but you must also learn to say no to people who will try to get you involved in many different GOOD activities. To develop the inner fortitude to say no to people, you must:
Over the course of a lifetime, the average person spends one year looking for misplaced things.
Tired of letting life live you while your priorities sit quietly neglected in the back seat of your life? Well, if you're REALLY ready to do something about it... this blog's for you!“You save ten minutes in execution for every minute you invest in planning. This means that the very act of planning—thinking on paper before you begin—gives you a 1000 percent return on energy. This is one of the highest returns you can get from anything you do in life.”If you are serious about getting your priorities out of the back seat of your life, then you must proactively plan your priorities into your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule. Planning takes time... but the return on your investment in planning is worth the time spent planning.
ALPINE, Texas--Mike Flynt was drinking beer and swapping stories with some old football buddies a few months ago when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: Getting kicked off the college team before his senior year. So, one of his pals said, why not do something about it? Most 59-year-olds would have laughed. Flynt's only concern was if he was eligible.
"I told him he's an idiot," said Jerry Larned, who coached Flynt at Sul Ross in 1969 and counseled him at the start of his comeback. "I said, 'Gosh, dang, Mike, you're not 20 years old any more. You're liable to cripple yourself.' He understands all of that. But he has a burning desire to play. ... He is in great physical condition. He still runs a 5-flat 40 and bench presses I-don't-know-what. He's a specimen for 59 years old."1. What physical changes can you see in Paul Potts the moment he begins to sing?
2. Think back over your life. What were you doing when you felt most alive? Why?
3. How do the judges respond to Paul before he sings? After he sings?
4. In what ways have you settled for "selling mobile phones" in your life?
5. If you died today, what "music" left unexpressed would die with you?
6. Are you daring to be and do what God created you to be and do? Explain.
7. If not, what's stopping you?
8. What next step do you need to take to be and do what God created you to be and do? Be specific.
9. What might your life be like if you dare to do what you do best?
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