Nurses are limited in their career only by their own imaginations.
If
you are a nurse thinking about changing roles or if you are an employer looking
for that next employee to round out your team, let's discuss the things a nurse brings to the table:
1. Nursing is a profession - we teach each other
2. Safety first - Our license is to demonstrate that we know how to keep folks safe - it is a privilege not a right
3.
Prioritizing - we have to get ahead of the thing that may kill you
first; then we'll get to the second thing that might kill you (see # 2)
4. Learning - evidence based medicine is ever changing, and we have to stay up to date, so we are expert learners (also see # 2)
5.
Delegation - we are trained to lead because we know we can't do it all.
We learn to leverage the power of a team and the strengths of the many
(See # 3)
6. Resourceful - we don't always have everything we need on hand, yet we still manage to get things done (see # 3, # 5)
7.
Teachers - we have to teach medications, treatments and healthcare to
folks who may not know much about medications, treatments or healthcare
(also see # 1, # 3)
8. All comers - we treat everyone because we are everyone <3
9.
Compassion - We see people at their absolute worst and we learn to help
them maintain their dignity and autonomy as much as possible (see # 2, #
3)
10. Practice - We know how to work toward improving things "That's why we call nursing a practice, not a destination" (See # 2)
11.
Pattern recognition - Nursing and healthcare are algorithmic in nature.
There is math in humans and we still treat them like humans
12.
Soft skills - we are consistently the most trusted profession while
doing all of the above things in any given situation (See # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5,
# 6, # 7, # 8, # 9, # 10, # 11)
