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Helping Black career women & RNs identify Work Fatigue, take FMLA with strategy, and return to work better than they left.
Would you call in for these reasons or would you grin and bear it? Think they are supposed to care about you when you’re not caring about yourself? This is love in action 🥰
06/01/2026
Are you keeping up with Operation Mental Health readings? Today 6/1, we are in the Introduction. Last week, in the preface we read how the complaining employee becomes a patient. Look at this graphic closely. Ask yourself how’d she make it out? What would I do…. Reading is fundamental. Grab your book today. Ebook 27.50 delivered. Available only at glennaesRXforLife.com
Are you thinking about filing an administrative complaint with the EEOC?
Here’s what you must understand:
Before you run to the next step, do what comes first.
Confront the person.
Tell the one who needs to know.
Escalate the conversation when there is delay, denial, or no correction.
You do not need to know every legal move before you do the first right thing.
Many people may have had a viable case, but their complaint fell apart because they skipped the most important part:
They never clearly confronted, reported, or created a record.
Confront is one of the 10 Power Moves inside Operation Mental Health™.
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Sometimes your body is not being dramatic.
Sometimes your body is giving you information.
In this clip, I’m talking about Jakoya Morgan, going to work sick, and the lesson I had to learn at 19:
Stop waiting for someone else to give you empathy before you give it to yourself.
As a nurse, I must first assess.
If workplace stress, sickness, exhaustion, fear, or burnout has been talking to you for more than six weeks, your next appointment matters.
Take the Work Fatigue Quiz™.
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Let's talk about Jakoya Morgan, but I’m not going to spend this whole live trying to report every detail of the story.
I’m going to say her name, honor the grief, and then I want to talk about something many working women know too well:
Going to work sick.
05/31/2026
Any psychiatrists or psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners care to help me?
Back in 2012, I saw a psychiatrist for workplace discrimination—a severe form of chronic job stress.
On Day 1, I was diagnosed with a depressive disorder and prescribed Cymbalta.
Part of my employment discrimination involved repetitive stress injuries that were taking too long to heal. By six weeks, I was offered ECT.
The doctor was trying to help me. I declined.
I explain why in Operation Mental Health: Practical Lessons on Career Burnout and Recovery.
The medication left me emotionally numb. Then came the brain zaps, constipation, metallic taste, and profuse sweating. At the time, I was working as a Lung Transplant Coordinator. Eventually, I had to take leave just to detox from the treatment itself.
So let me ask again:
What percentage of your patients return to work better after FMLA?
What percentage return needing accommodations to perform their jobs?
Are you helping them access their workplace rights?
Are you documenting when workplace conditions may be contributing to poor health outcomes?
Because if we are not measuring return-to-work outcomes, how do we know whether we are helping?
Black women. Nurses. Employees experiencing chronic job stress.
Ask the questions before accepting a treatment plan.
You do not need a psychiatric diagnosis to use FMLA.
You need a serious health condition.
Workplace discrimination, retaliation, and chronic job stress can have profound effects on health, families, finances, and communities.
Three months ago, I asked 10 psychiatrists and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners a simple question about return-to-work outcomes.
Three months later, I am still waiting for an answer.
Take the Work Fatigue Quiz™.
Let’s talk about the Jacoya Morgan story being shared online.
First, prayers to her family. 🕊️
This is not gossip. This is grief. This is workforce care. This is a systems conversation.
According to reports circulating online, worked a 12-hour shift at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and told leadership she felt sick. She was allegedly denied the ability to go home. After that, she reportedly collapsed and suffered a medical emergency. There are also allegations that CPR was not immediately provided.
If true, this should disturb every healthcare worker, every hospital leader, and every person who has ever been told to “push through” when their body was clearly warning them.
As a nurse, I keep coming back to one word:
Assessment.
When a healthcare worker says, “I don’t feel well,” the response should not be pressure, guilt, staffing panic, or punishment.
The response should be assessment, documentation, care, and safety.
One thing I teach Black career women and healthcare workers is this:
Stop asking permission to protect your body.
You are not begging.
You are not being difficult.
You are not abandoning anyone.
You are putting leadership on notice that you are unable to safely continue.
The language matters:
“I am sick and unable to safely continue working. I am notifying you that I need medical assessment and/or need to leave. Please document that I informed leadership.”
That is a mindset shift.
Because too many workers have been trained to override their bodies for jobs that may not protect them.
This is why Workforce Care™ exists.
We help Black career women and RNs recognize work fatigue before it becomes collapse, crisis, resignation, mislabeling, or long-term disability.
If your body has been warning you for more than six weeks, your next appointment matters.
Take the Work Fatigue Quiz™.
05/30/2026
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05/29/2026
🌸 GIVEAWAY: The 5-Minute Rescue
For the past two weeks, I’ve been reading from Operation Mental Health and teaching how career burnout does not happen all at once.
It starts with signs we ignore.
The heavy body.
The tight chest.
The tears in the bathroom.
The silent drive home.
The patient trap.
The moment a passionate professional starts becoming a casualty of career burnout.
So I’m giving away 5 bottles of our most loved perfume oil:
Covered Luxury Perfume Oil
Retail value: $30 each
Your price: FREE
Covered was created for your 5-minute micro break — a moment to breathe, reset, and come back to yourself before stepping back into your day.
Used and loved by Beverly Hills outpatient nurses and anesthesiologists, Covered is hospital-friendly, pocket-sized, and made for the woman carrying a lot.
To enter:
Comment COVERED and tell me:
What is one thing you keep in your bag to help you get through the workday?
I’ll choose 5 winners on June 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM PST.
Because before burnout becomes the story, you need something close by that helps you return to yourself.
Covered. Because even on the hard shift, you are not uncovered.
Reading Operation Mental Health. Yesterday, we completed reading the Preface. There were many gems drops and aha moments. Watch the linked reel for deets. Today, we’re reading Introduction…. Press play. Thanks for listening, liking and sharing if you care about Black career women and RNs too.
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