 Hi guys! So today I wanted to do a video on what nursing shoes I wear and have found have worked for long shifts where you're standing for 12 plus hours running around. It's taken me a long while to figure this out so I'm excited to share this with you. But before we get started I want to mention that today's video is sponsored by Weave Wearables. Weave Wearables is a company that does custom insoles for your shoes which is awesome when you are a nurse and it's super simple, super affordable. You just download their app and you can take pictures of your feet and your arches. You send it in, they make the custom insoles for you. You can pick like the prince and stuff, how you want them to look. Very simple, very affordable and I love it. So if you're interested in checking in them out their link will be down below as well as a promo code. Okay so I want to talk about my nursing shoe journey I guess you could say because I have tried several different brands of shoes and different things to try and figure out what works and the best thing I can recommend and say well a couple things is one what shoe works for me may not work for you. I have very high arches on my feet. If you have wide feet, flat feet, skinny feet, bigger feet, smaller feet some shoes aren't going to work for you and so one thing that I have found that is super helpful for me is getting custom insoles because of my high arches. It just helps support my feet and helps a lot. Anyways we will get to that in a second. So when I was in nursing school I was told that Dansco shoes are the best shoes for people who are on their feet all the time. They're the very hard I don't say plastic I don't know what they're made of but they're very hard and taller. I'll insert a picture here but I had a pair of Danscos for probably two and a half three years and those shoes did not work for me. I know many people swear by them but I just felt that they're too heavy, too clunky, too hard on the bottoms of my feet. So I had those for like two and a half years before I ended up switching to different shoes. Currently there are two pairs of shoes that I wear to work and I have them here and they're kind of old. They probably should get new ones here soon but I want to show you them. I have a pair of Skechers that are just very basic in general. These are let's see if I can figure out what they actually are. I don't even know. They're like their Skechers Sport brand. I'll see if I can insert a link to where these exactly are but I'll put that down below if I can find it and they've got like cool foam. Very light weight, very, I don't know what you want to say, but I have enjoyed wearing these ones because one, they're lightweight which I personally think is important. They can fit custom insoles in them when I just take out this bottom foam part here and I like the texturing on the outside. So this is super important to think about if you are working with a lot of needles which most nurses do. If you drop a needle or have body fluids that get on your shoes, it can soak through the material or pierce through the material and you can get a needle stick. These shoes are, I don't want to say cloth, I don't know what they're made out of but you could definitely, stuff could definitely soak through here and a needle could definitely pierce through here but I feel like it would take a lot of body fluids to soak through here and it would also take a needle like perfectly dropped and like at a high velocity to like actually pierce through this and like hit your foot. So I know that's important to consider and think about but for me, I don't know, I don't foresee and like that would be so rare for a needle to like perfectly drop at enough speed to like actually pierce through this because it is pretty coarse. The other pair of shoes that I wear and I haven't been wearing these as frequently because I actually was staining outside in them and I got some stain on there so it looks like, I think it looks like a GI bleed stain, I know it sounds silly but it's like kind of brown so I don't want people to like judge me like oh like she's got stuff on her shoes, ew that's gross, that must be body fluids because what else do you think when you're like at work and see like gross stuff on people's shoes? But these are just Nike, I think Nike freeze, Nike, Nike, Zoom, Pegasus 32, I don't know but I like these because they're pretty much the same as the other ones. They're lightweight, I like the color, Nike's work well for me because I have pretty narrow feet and so these have been working for me. Basically what I've determined in out of all of my nursing shoes that I've tried and I've tried several different brands is one something that's lightweight that you're comfortable in. I tend to like kind of like running shoes, crossfit shoes, whatever that are just light on my feet and then having custom insoles is a must-have I believe. So these are my custom insoles from Weave Wearables which is awesome, they actually have like my name on them but you can see just based off of these like how high my arches are but you customize them, the look of them, the backs of them, they can put your name on it and it's just nice to have custom insoles that fit your feet. Nursing shoes can get to be really expensive, insoles can get to be expensive depending on where you go but if you think about it, if you buy one pair of shoes a year or even ever two years, think about how much you're wearing them during the week during your shifts and divide that price out over like 12 months and you end up only paying like 10 or 15 bucks a month-ish depending on where you go through what shoes you get and to me it's worth it to have good nursing shoes because it can make a difference in your feet, in your legs, in your back and if you have custom insoles that's just like the cherry on top. So again there is a promo code down below for Weave Wearables and I'm excited I found a website and app where it's so easy to get custom insoles because it just makes the process easier. I personally am an online person, I hate going shopping for anything, I like to just do it online at the convenience of my bed and this is nice because you just take pictures of your feet and send it in and then they save your picture so that way if you need to reorder insoles in the future you don't have to retake picture of feet because most likely something dramatic happens, you're not changing the shape of your feet anytime soon. So that is my nursing shoe journey and what I use. I hope it's helpful to you guys. I know that I get this question asked quite frequently on what I use and I hope it works for you. I know it doesn't work for everyone. Everyone has different size, shape, feet and everything but if you have any questions leave them down below. Let me know what you found works for you for as far as nursing shoes go. Give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys next time.