Position Yourself for Success: Success is a Journey, Not a Destination
Program Titles
- The Inspiration Nurse
- Success is a Journey, Not a Destination
- Power of Resilience
- Nurse Power!
- Learn to Speak with Style
- What Did you Say? Communicate With Confidence
- Taking Care of You – the Business of Self-Care
Donna Wilk Cardillo, RN, MA: Donna holds a diploma in nursing, a BS in Health Care Management and an MA in Corporate and Public Communication, she has a sense of humor and an animated style that brings her presentations to life.
She helps nurses and other healthcare professionals to be happy in their careers and to reach their full potential. Donna has a passion for speaking and has compassion for her audiences.
She has a down to earth style that hits the mark with any audience.
She will ignite a fire under you and start you on a journey of exploration and discovery that will enable you to avail yourself of all that life has to offer.
Donna’s speaking style is consistently described as inspirational and dynamic.
She has been characterized as motivational, down to earth, funny, approachable, upbeat, knowledgeable, professional, and a good role model.
Experience the energy and enthusiasm of a live presentation by Donna.
Recipient of the Athena Award, a national leadership award for women. Donna was designated a Diva in Nursing by the Institute for Nursing.
Donna appears regularly on television and radio, is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines and has published numerous articles. Donna has appeared on the Today Show on NBC and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times on several occasions.
The Power of Resilience
Challenge, change, and chaos has become the order of the day in our personal and professional lives. So how can you meet them head on and bounce back better and stronger rather than being overwhelmed? Donna will show you how to foster strategies to respond positively to change, adversity and stress while developing a sense of mastery, confidence, and personal power. Learn to turn challenges that threaten to knock us to the ground into the building blocks we need to become more successful, more joyful, and ultimately, more alive.
Attendees will learn to:
- Build personal power and confidence
- Embrace change
- Approach life with a positive perspective
- Develop habits to nurture and nourish self
The Power of Transformation
This transformational program confronts the inevitability of change in our lives and careers, understanding why we resist change, strategies to embrace change and stay relevant, and how in the end, change will help us to create a vibrant future for ourselves and our profession. Without change, there is no growth and if you’re not growing you’re stagnating!
Participants will learn:
- How to overcome their fear of change
- Specific ways to build ‘change stamina’
- How to maintain inner calm in the midst of outer chaos
- Strategies for personal and career transformation
- The importance of avoiding obsolescence
Taking Care of You, Inc. – The Business of Self-Care
In the hectic, fast-paced, and high-pressure world we live and work in, it’s not enough to manage our time; we also have to manage our energy. Energy reserves, depleted by increasing demands, must regularly be replenished. Neglecting this need results in negativity, poor focus, reduced productivity, and ultimately burnout.
Join Donna in a refreshing and upbeat program about the whys and hows of renewal, rejuvenation, and energy management guaranteed to make you happier, healthier, more focused, and yes, even more productive!
This upbeat program offers practical strategies for:
- Keeping a fresh perspective year after year
- Creating, innovating and inspiring when those around you are wilting
- Staying energized and focused in the midst of chaos
- The power of disengagement – what it is and how to do it
- Formulating a dynamic for future success
Nurse Power!™
Harnessing The Power, The Passion, and The Pride of Nursing
This uplifting program is designed to remind nurses of their own greatness and empower them for future success. It’s guaranteed to make nurses feel good and proud of who they are, what they do, and how they contribute to healthcare. Get ready to be pumped up, turned on, and super-charged with Nurse Power!
Participants will learn:
- What they already have going for them
- How nurses have already changed the face of healthcare
- How to be a nursing advocate
- Techniques for assertive behavior/communication
- Strategies for elevating the profession to new heights
Nursing – The Future is Ours!
Nursing and healthcare stand at the precipice of radical change. As such, a unique opportunity presents itself for us to take on a larger and more pivotal role in healthcare beyond anything that most of us could have ever imagined. As this new role takes shape, nurses will need to change their way of seeing themselves, their profession, and their capabilities. It’s time to stop whining and start owning our power!
Participants will learn:
- What’s in store for the healthcare delivery system over the next 20 years
- Why nursing must reinvent itself
- How nursing will evolve into a ‘superpower’ in healthcare
- Which behaviors, mindsets, and patterns no longer serve us
- How to get in shape to meet the challenges – and opportunities – of the future
Maintaining Joy and Balance in Challenging Times
How Nurses/Healthcare Staff Can Refresh, Regroup, and Re-energize
Times have been tough and nurses/healthcare professionals are just emerging from one of their greatest challenges ever. Having recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, it’s only fitting that we ask ourselves: What would Florence do? Join Donna as she channels Flo for an inspirational and practical program to lift you up and get you back on track.
Participants will learn how to:
- Cultivate resilience
- Create a mindfulness practice
- Restore wellbeing
- Empower themselves for future success
The Heart of Nursing
How to Stay Connected to Yourself, Your Patients, and Your Profession
This powerful and energizing program reminds nurses of their core values, vision, and purpose. By returning to basics, taking care of ourselves, and enhancing our professional practice, attendees will be reinvigorated to maximize their personal and professional potential while ramping up their positive engagement with patients, each other, their profession, and their workplace.
Participants will learn:
- How to be a catalyst for positive change
- Powerful yet simple patient connection tools
- Techniques for extreme self-care
- Empowerment strategies that work
- Professional development with purpose
Staying Joyfully Engaged at Every Stage of Your Career
Florence Nightingale said, “Nursing should not be a sacrifice, but one of the highest delights of life.” Staying fully engaged and happy through the continuum of your career is vital to your success, your effectiveness as a healthcare professional, and even your health. Spend a fun, energetic, and practical session with The Inspiration Nurse as we explore ways to pump up the volume in your career…and your life!
Attendees will learn strategies to:
- Stay engaged and energized at every stage of their career
- Be a catalyst for positive change
- Maximize multi-generational teams
- Enhance recruitment and retention
- Promote collegiality
The Power of Precepting
How to Increase Your Impact and Expand Your Field of Influence
Preceptors are pivotal not only in shaping the next generation of nurses but also in driving the patient-centered experience. And with an increasingly complex and high-acuity environment in healthcare facilities, their role has never been more vital.
In this fun, informative, and energizing program, attendees will learn:
- Key ways that preceptors influence and support newly licensed nurses
- Fundamental professional development practices for preceptors
- Core elements related to nursing professionalism
- Areas where positive, proactive nursing language can enhance practice
Passionate Leadership: Soaring to New Heights
Today’s leaders are challenged like never before. At the same time, they are in a unique position to have a greater impact on the future of their industry. So how can you stay inspired and continue to grow and evolve as a leader when chaos reigns, morale is low and change is a constant? Spend a high-content, high-fun hour (or longer) with The Inspiration Nurse and get primed, pumped-up and supercharged for the coming decade!
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify and avoid the perils and pitfalls of being an experienced leader
- Become stronger by softening yourself
- Create physical and emotional accessibility
- Stay relevant and inspired year after year
- Self-management strategies to support your success
Empowered Nurse, Enlightened Practice™
Whether your passion for nursing is fired up or has fizzled out, Empowered Nurse, Enlightened Practice™ is for you! It has been created to empower, energize, and enlighten you for future success.
It is being offered in a setting that will provide an opportunity for individual disengagement (detaching from everyday work and life), relaxation, reassessment and planning, and recharging.
Workshop objectives:
- Honor, value and celebrate your career path and each other
- Heal and renew the healer within
- Build confidence and personal power
- Become a catalyst for positive change in nursing
Empowered Woman, Enlightened Life™
An empowering program for women.
It’s time to reexamine your goals, your happiness quotient, and your heart’s deepest desires. Come answer the questions: “What’s next for me?” and “How do I get there?” Create a customized life plan to keep you energized, engaged, and excited in a weekend that teaches you how to:
- Move from fear to freedom
- Create positive momentum in your life and work
- Triumph over fear, self-doubt, disappointment, and heartache
- Live fully and authentically
- Use past failures as springboards for future success
- Develop direction and the courage to move forward
- Build confidence and personal power
Books by Donna Wilk Cardillo, RN, MA
- The A Daybook for Beginning Nurses
- The ULTIMATE Career Guide For Nurses
- Your First Year as a Nurse – Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional,
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