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Bold in Resilience
Navigate challenges and thrive in your life and career
Dr. Kristi Campoe
August 20, 2025
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Welcome to The Bold Brief—
You are a member of this community of top-notch expert nurses and healthcare professionals who aspire to be “bold” in career and life.
We want to be bold in our life’s purpose, and bold in life and career choices so that we can live with authenticity, balance, and meaningful challenges, driving forward with confidence.
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So, bold in resilience.
You are Resilient
Understanding Your Resilience
Resilience is the ability “to bounce back or recover easily” and to adapt, recover, and maintain momentum when faced with setbacks, high-stress situations, or major career pivots.1 Resilience is a process and not a personality trait; this process helps us to confront adversity, trauma, misfortune, or change.
For expert nurses and healthcare professionals, resilience is a career advantage: It allows you to handle complex situations, make confident decisions under pressure, and embrace new opportunities without losing balance or purpose.
In nursing and healthcare, we need our reliance more than ever to bring desirable change to our lives and profession. Also, resilience can help to overcome it has always been this way mentality in life and career.
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell and got back up again.”
The Evidence to Underpinning Your Resilience
Research shows that resilience is a measurable, professional advantage and that resilient healthcare professionals:
In both life and career (early, mid, or late), nurses and healthcare professions must learn the processes that result in improved resilience. Ultimately, resilience helps us engage in life with purpose and fulfillment.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Bolster Your Creativity
Step 1: Develop a Positive Mindset
Mindset shapes how you respond to stress and career challenges. Take steps to focus on your strengths, past wins, and what you can control. Read Bold Inputs, Bold Outcomes Part 1 to learn more!
Step 2: Strengthen Support Networks
Surround yourself with colleagues, mentors, and friends who challenge, support, and guide you. Your network is a resilience multiplier. The next Bold Brief series will help you with networks! Also, read Bold Inputs, Bold Outcomes Part 2.
Step 3: Prioritize Energy Management including Self-Care
Your energy fuels everything from getting out of bed to work as a nurse including patient care and strategic thinking as well as your career growth. Schedule time for physical activity, rest, and reflection.
Step 4: Build Adaptive Problem-Solving Skills
Approach challenges with curiosity and creativity. Break problems into actionable steps and learn from each experience. Read Bold in Problem Solving.
Step 5: Embrace Flexibility
One of the only constants in nursing and healthcare career opportunities is change. Adaptability and a reliable process allows you to pivot, innovate, and seize the opportunities – that you desire.
Step 6: Commit to Continuous Learning
Ongoing professional development builds confidence, strengthens competence, and prepares you to step into new roles with authority. The next Bold Brief series will help you with Continuous learning!
Step 7: Connect to Purpose
Anchor your decisions and actions to your personal and professional values. Purpose-driven resilience sustains motivation and clarity even in uncertainty.
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Why This Approach Works
Resilience practices combine mindset, strategy, and action. By cultivating these skills, you can learn the processes that enable you to thrive under pressure, make bold life-career moves, and maintain balance in life, all while expanding your influence and impact.
Conclusion
Stay tuned for our upcoming series where we’ll show how networking, volunteering, and strategic engagement in in the rights places, at the right time, with the right people can accelerate your career and open doors beyond the bedside.
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