What do you do if your confidence as a nurse is affecting the quality of patient care?

Fear is a useful friend when it helps us identify risk, so it's important to acknowledge and recognize it. Yet fear can stop a person from living their life and a health care professional from providing quality care. As Nurses (this applies to new licensed as well) we should learn how to detach ourselves from fear by rationally recalling all those situations when we had fear but overcome it and provided good care. Instead of focus our attention on fear we should move our attention on the sistuation, meaning: "OK I am scared, this means that this is a very important situation that requires my fully attention". Breathe and find your center. Be humble, ask for help, prioritize actions, and alsways act as patient's advocate. You'll be fine!

Fear can stop the growth of a nurse instantly in healthcare. As fear can make you question: 1) Your own confidence in your capability of doing your work 2) Allow yourself to make mistakes 3) Or even report them When doubt clouds your vision as a nurse, it will make you question your nursing abilities to do every task, action, and will directly negatively impact your mental health. As a new nurse do not compare or blame yourself for your lack of knowledge or skills. Never compare your chapter 1 to someone's chapter 20. The nurses you see as expects were in the same shoes as you when they started. Reach out to your nurse educator and make a list of skills you need the most urgent support with. Give yourself some grace, you can do this!

Seek support to the more experience nurses that are kind and provide great coaching on your unit/department. Engaging with the nurse educator is a great first step. Bring a list of skills or tasks you need coaching on. She can build a learning plan for you. Nurse educators want you to be the best nurse you can be. They are invested in your success and growth in nursing practice. Also reach out to your nurse manager, they can organize additional buddy shifts with more experience nurses to help you acquire your skills fastest. Communicate to others your preferred learning style as a nurse. Do you learn best by observing, reading or listening, or doing? This will help others adapt their coaching to your training. needs.

Sign-up to the workshops and training sessions where you work that will enhance your knowledge and increase your confidence. Take advantage of all the free education sessions offered at your organization. The knowledge you gain will help you be a better nurse. It will also make you shine and noticed by management. Knowledge is power, it can open the doors to new career opportunities in the future. Being a continuous learner, brings expertise and skills to the team environment which is invaluable as a manager.

I strongly advocate journaling, I think it's a powerful tool for growth! Reflecting regularly and writing down your thoughts will help you overcome fear by: - Recognizing triggers - Understand the real causes of fear (whether related to the trigger or not). - Develop coping mechanisms or strategies to overcome fear. - Develop resilience that leads to confidence over time - help you decide what skills to learn to improve your practice - Affirmations that are honest and positive can build confidence. To overcome your fear, you must face it! ??

Not 100% agree...We need a balance! To avoid burnout, we need to adopt an attitude that recognizes our limitations, accepts them, and steps back if needed, rather than just believing in our abilities and keeping going. We shouldn't push ourselves to our limits to prove to others we are capable! Understanding the cause of our fear will help us decide whether to remain in the same workplace or make a change. We may be using the wrong approach and need to speak to our manager. The only way to overcome fear and improve our confidence is to have a positive mindset that accept and acknowledge our limitations. The act of only celebrating victory won't help much, because it will allow us to grow only to a plateau!

Not only does fear exist at the bedside, while providing nursing care, but it can prevent us from speaking up when a colleague is gaslighted or abused, when other professionals want to impose their power and bully us. Nurses should raise their voices in order to be recognized, so that they can protect their colleagues and patients. Our workplace, patients, and society need us to be able to speak up for the best interest of all! My newsletter "Empower Nurses' Voice" was created for this purpose! Now is the time for us to overcome our fears and embrace our value and quality. Nurses are a profession that acts as an advocate for patients globally, a profession that is strong, confident, and reliable, but only overcoming the fear of speaking up!

I believe if patient quality of care is affected then admitting and accepting this on a personal level as well as a professional level is essential. I think immediately taking a leave of absence would be necessary for the best possible outcome for everyone involved. Otherwise, I don't feel the person is fit to care for clients. There is too much room for error, and it will deteriorate into a downward spiral where the client is at risk for potential harm including death.