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Still Showing Up: What Burnout in Scrubs Looks Like From the Inside
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Burnout does not always look like collapse. Sometimes it looks like a nurse who keeps showing up long after she has nothing left to give.
Still Showing Up: What Burnout in Scrubs Looks Like From the Inside is an honest reflection on nursing, caregiving, compassion fatigue, and the quiet cost of being needed by everyone but yourself.
Written by Sara Jacques, RPN, this book follows the path from calling to breaking point - from the little girl inspired by nursing, to the nurse, wife, mother, and caregiver who learned that love and resilience do not make a person limitless.
This is not a book about giving up on nursing.
It is a book about what the scrubs can cost.
With raw honesty, Sara writes about showing up sick, grieving, exhausted, and overwhelmed while still being expected to function. She explores the blurred line between professional caregiving and personal caregiving, the guilt of needing rest, and the moment the body finally says what the mind has been trying to ignore.
For every nurse, healthcare worker, and caregiver who has been called strong while quietly disappearing - this book is a reminder:
Burnout is not weakness.
It is the cost of being human in circumstances that ask too much.
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