Nurses! It's Not Burnout. It's Trauma.
Lorre Laws
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S1E15 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…
S1E14 The $415,000 Reason Hospitals Target Experienced Nurses
Simone is an emergency department nurse with nearly 25 years of experience, a perfect track record, and zero occurrences.After she questioned unsafe staffing assignments, her hospital handed her a…
S1E13 They Spent $95 Billion on the Wrong Fix. And Blamed You When It Didn’t Work.
For fifty years, healthcare institutions have told nurses their suffering is burnout. In this episode, Dr. Lorre Laws dismantles that diagnosis with peer, reviewed data, exposes what the $94.6…
S1E12 Budget-Centered Care - The Root Cause Behind the Nurse Health Crisis
NTR #090: Budget-Centered Care - The Root Cause Behind the Nurse Health Crisis5.6 million licensed nurses. 2.2 million walked away. That is not a shortage. That is a verdict.Episode SummaryIn this…
S1E11 Occurrences. They Write Yours. They Never Write Their Own.
#089: Occurrences. They Write Yours. They Never Write Their Own.The system documents every nurse error. It never documents its own. Now you know why.Episode SummaryIn this episode of Nurses: It's not…
S1E10 The 5-Step Playbook Hospitals Use to Break Nurses
NTR #088: The 5-Step Playbook Hospitals Use to Break NursesThe system isn't broken. It's a business model. Now you know the five-step playbook keeping nurses trapped.Episode SummaryIn this episode of…
S1E9 287,000 NURSES WALKED OUT LAST YEAR. APPARENTLY IT WASN’T ENOUGH.
#87. Dr. Lorre Laws dismantles the "nursing shortage" narrative and reveals the staffing crisis the system created. With 287,300 nurses terminating hospital positions in 2024 alone, the profession is…
S1E8 #86 Your Regulation is the resistance
Dr. Lorre Laws exposes why healthcare systems need nurses dysregulated and in survival mode. From 46,000 striking nurses to hospitals cutting healthcare for healthcare workers, this episode reveals…
S1E7 #86: Why Nurses Are the Sickest Professionals in Healthcare
#086: Why Nurses Are the Sickest Professionals in HealthcareFour forces are converging to break nursing. Fifty years of solutions have failed. Here's what no one is naming.Episode SummaryIn this…
S1E6 #85: The Burnout Lie: Why Nurses Are Actually Experiencing Trauma.
In this episode of Nurses! It’s Not Burnout. It’s Trauma., host Dr. Lorre Laws challenges one of the most accepted explanations in healthcare: burnout.For decades, nurses have been told their…
S1E5 #84: You Can't Pray Your Way Out of a Dysregulated Nervous System
You're probably thinking: I get it. I understand it's trauma, not burnout. But how do I actually heal while I'm still working in the system that's causing it?Today Dr. Lorre Laws walks you through…
S1E4 #83: Your Body never forgot how to heal!
Last week we named it. The system-induced trauma. The insufficient resources. The betrayal. The institutional gaslighting.Now what?Today we stop looking at what's broken and start recognizing what's…
S1E3 #82: THE TRAUMAS THEY SAID WERE "PART OF THE JOB"
We've established it's not burnout. We've talked about what trauma does to your nervous system. Now we need to name it. All of it.Nurses don't experience the same trauma as other professions. Nurses…
S1E2 #81: Why your nervous system is hijacked?
Your body knows something your mind hasn't been taught yet. Before you clock in, your heart rate spikes. Your stomach clenches. Your jaw tenses. You tell yourself it's just burnout. But what if your…
S1E1 #80: Your Body Never Lied. The System Did.
You know that Sunday night dread. The knot in your stomach before your alarm goes off. They told you it's burnout. They lied.In this debut episode, nurse neuroscientist Dr. Lorre Laws exposes the…
S1 Nurses: It's Not Burnout - It's Trauma
76% of what the system calls "nurse burnout" is actually unresolved nurse trauma. Not burnout. Trauma.For 50 years, they told you that you are not resilient enough. Not tough enough. That you just…
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