Genius is Relative, Nurses!

Are you a nurse who sometimes beats herself up because you ' ve focused so much on your specialty practice area that you ' ve lost touch with other aspects of nursing? Are you highly skilled at reading ECGs but couldn ' t interpret an ABG (arterial blood gas) if your life depended on it? Are you a nurse business owner completely removed from the clinical world? There are all kinds of nurses out there, and you really can ' t know everything, even if you ' re a real lifenurse polymath. Genius is relative, and we all have our own unique brilliance and gifts to bring to the table.So, here are some questions for those nurses who berate themselves for not knowing certain things or not having certain skills:Does an electrician feel less worthy because she doesn ' t know how to pour a concrete foundation or install a hot water heater? Is deep low self-esteem experienced by a pastry chef who doesn ' t know how to make a perfect paella? Did Albert Einstein hate himself because he didn ' t know how to tune up his own car?I think you know what the answers to these questions are; in case you ' re not sure, the answer is an unequivocal no. So, if the electrician doesn ' t hate himself for not being able to pour concrete, why should you have low self-esteem because you ' ve been a school nurse for 30 years and you ' d be lost in the ICU? (And if, perchance, Einstein actually could do a tune up, I bet there were plenty of things he didn ' t know how to do---and he paid others to do...

Source: Digital Doorway - October 24, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing Source Type: blogs