How to Prioritize When You’re Drowning: The Eisenhower Matrix for Women in Healthcare

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You’re juggling ICU shifts, graduate school deadlines, a toddler, a home, and a body that’s running on caffeine and willpower. You don’t have time to read another productivity book. You need an actual system that filters your tasks and protects your peace.

Enter: The Eisenhower Matrix.
Made famous by President Dwight Eisenhower and popularized in modern behavior science by James Clear, this 2x2 decision-making tool helps you separate the urgent from the important, the noise from the actual priorities.

Here’s what using this might look like for a part-time ICU nurse who’s also in NP school, raising a toddler, holding down 50% of the household, and trying not to lose herself in the chaos. Sound like you? Read on.

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