The Natural Inventiveness of Nurses

Nurses are smart. Period. Nurses also have to be inventive, think on their feet, and use critical thinking to solve problems on the fly. Nursing school doesn't prepare us for every possible thing that could happen (and how could it?), so we fly by the seat of our pants and learn as we go. And learn we do.Back when I was considering going to nursing school, a neighbor who was a seasoned nurse told me, "If you want to be a nurse, remember one thing. Nurses aren't just nurses. Sometimes they're plumbers, sometimes they're carpenters, and sometimes they're priests, therapists, mediators and miracle workers. Be prepared for anything and you'll be OK."He was right, and then some. Nursing puts us face to face with all manner of challenges and puzzles, and we can even use our acumen and savvy to start businesses and invent new products and technological advances.Nurses Are InventiveToday on RN.FM Radio, we had as our guest Mr. Gary Bronga. While Gary isn't a nurse, he's an inventor, entrepreneur and innovator, and he coaches nurses and others on how to bring an idea for a product or device from the thinking stage to the implementation stage and beyond. Gary considers nurses some of the smartest people he knows, and he believes that there are thousands of nurses out there who have brilliant ideas about how to improve patient care or otherwise make their own jobs easier. And he's right.Just the other day, I spoke on the phone with Sarah Brennan Mott, a nurse who had an idea for a sprin...
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