Faith Fear and the Fight: Health Equity Research What’s Really Causing Nurse Burnout.

Stressed Surgical Nurse

June 3, 2025

Faith Fear and the Fight: Health Equity Research What’s Really Causing Nurse Burnout.

Why Do Registered Nurses Burn Out—Even When They’re Seeing Doctors for Job-Related Stress? Burnout among registered nurses (RNs) has reached crisis levels—even as many turn to clinical help. So why does burnout persist, especially among those already in care professions? Let's delve into my four-year study to get to results worth repeating.

Asking the Right Question

Why do RNs experience burnout even when they’re seeing doctors for job-related stress?

Background Research

The answer begins with uncomfortable truths: racism, bias, and systemic inequity are deeply embedded in healthcare institutions. Nurses—especially Black women, disabled workers, and other protected classes—often report workplace discrimination, bullying, and retaliation. These aren’t isolated cases; they are patterns. What makes it worse? A lack of faith—not just in God, but confidence in oneself and understand in the laws designed to protect workers. Many fear losing their jobs more than losing their health. Fear holds them hostage.

Hypothesis

What if nurses were given the tools, lessons, and healthcare support needed to pursue their legal workplace rights? Would this reduce burnout and health disparities in a profession on life support.

Experiment

Between 2016 and 2020, Glennae—nurse, author, and founder of Glennae’s RX for Life—tested this very question while facing targeted workplace discrimination due to disability. Her lived experience revealed that traditional medical models often fail to treat workplace-induced trauma. Worse, they can further disable and silence those suffering.

Since 2012, Glennae has walked with nurses and healthcare workers navigating burnout and moral injury. Her model is revolutionary because it’s rooted in faith, legal empowerment, and emotional clarity—not just prescription drugs and time off.

Data & Results

Before enrolling in Glennae’s 6-week program—Practice the Care You Teach™—many participants begin by reading her two foundational books:

• Well Done: Hood Girl to Head Nurse

• Operation Mental Health: Practical Lessons on Career Burnout and Recovery

These texts break the silence on what it means to survive trauma, reclaim your worth, and how to fight for your life inside hostile systems when quitting isn't an option. Our Be Brave Book Bundle helps troubled nurses find their path and let go at the right time. They are not just memoirs; they are instruction manuals on adversity.

Once grounded in this knowledge, nurses are equipped to begin the 6-week healing and coaching program. In just 40 days, many experience life-altering shifts:

• Renewed energy and confidence

• Clarity on their legal and professional rights

• Emotional healing from compassion fatigue and moral injury

• The faith to release fear and dependence on broken systems

  
  

These results are not random—they are repeatable. The program supports a growing movement of healthcare workers no longer willing to be sacrificed in silence.

Communicating the Results

Glennae’s RX for Life is not just a brand. It’s a lifeline for nurses ready to recover and rise. Our evidence-based, faith-rooted model helps healthcare professionals heal in both spirit and strategy.

If you’re ready to stop surviving and start recovering, book a discovery call today. Learn how Well Done and Operation Mental Health can guide your first steps—and how our 6-week coaching program can transform your next 40 days.

👉 Schedule your call now. You don’t have to do this alone—and you’re not supposed to.

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