Let’s See What Habits Do Highly Successful Nurses Have

In the present world of competitiveness, finding time for being updated with some additional tips for success is quite imperative for nurses. Even though you are aware of nursing shortage across the world, moving up in the nursing career is still challenging. It’s not that a high pay or a top-level job defines a successful career, rather, a successful nurse is one who makes an impact on his or her patient’s care. To be on the same ladder, you must learn and know about the habits that some of the most successful nurses have, such as -  

The Habit of Paying Attention to Detail

To notice everything with the smallest detail, like the overflowing trashcan in a patient’s room to the outdated IV tubing, a nurse should possess such a skill to address them. They leave nothing to chance.

The Habit of Avoiding Shortcuts

Shortcuts are something that reduces the time spent by bouncing the steps required. Generally, majority would say that shortcuts are harmless but the most successful nurses will not only never take a shortcut, but also they will be the first to correct another nurses. In a professional environment, the safety of the patient cannot be ensured when any step is skipped.

The Habit of Never to Stop Learning

No matter how much they are experienced or how much exposure they have in the professional front, successful nurses never shut the doors to learn something every day. It doesn’t matter if it is a smallest thing; they are willing and wanting to always learn something new, even if it’s simply a new way of doing something they already know how to perform.

The Habit of Dressing for Success

Even if they are on their nursing attire or wearing the scrubs, you will always see them crisp and clean. For nurses, it is a matter of pride the way they look at any point of the day, whether it is a mid-night shift or a full day schedule.

The Habit of Volunteering

Any situation, any circumstances and under any conditions, successful nurses make themselves always available. Some volunteer to work extra shift or stay past their shift. If needed, they come in early. In every possible way, they’ll do their best to help out by volunteering. They do it because they enjoy it, not because they feel obligated.

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Take it Easy Nurse! Here is How You Can Solve the Patient Care Problems – Part II

While in the previous section of this blog, we have discussed about the identity crisis and the confusion caused to the patients, there is certainly a lot more to be added yet. You may know how most of the problems need solutions. However, did you know that sometimes only maturity helps in outgrowing them?

Problem Caused Because of Language Barrier

The most common of all, is the language related barrier. On one hand, you try to communicate effectively and make the patient a part of the conversation. However, are you still using medical jargon? How a patient with non-medical background and zero experience in the medical field will understand those heavy terms that you include?

For instance, many of us do not know what 'vitals' mean. When a nurse utters the need to examine the vitals, a patient, in most of the cases, is left perplexed. How would you feel if someone grabs your arm to examine your blood pressure with no warning? With no doubt, you'll be frightened.

The solution: Certain phrases are understood only by health care professionals. Make sure you use simpler terms and phrases in front of the patients.

Problems Caused Because of the Constant Interruptions 

Hospitals are known for their 24*7 activities. No one can think of comfortably resting in the premises of a hospital. You must have noticed how the hospital staff keeps on moving here and there, taking care of a million things. This, however, tends to interrupt the patient's sleep.

Sure, the hospital's staff tries to balance the equation by minimizing the interruptions in the night hours. However, think of a patient who hasn’t slept at night because of pain. The patient will certainly be irritated because of the constant interruptions during daytime when he'll try to compensate the sleeping hours.

The solution: Communicate with your peers. Take out 15 minutes in the beginning of the day in order to divide tasks. Make sure you do not have to enter a patient ward more than twice, until an emergency. While on a round, just ask the patients for their future needs. For instance, does anyone need food? Does anyone need medicine? Does anyone need to go to the bathroom? This way you become pro-active and take care of the things ahead of time. This saves you from the double or triple rounds a day.

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Take it Easy Nurse! Here is How You Can Solve the Patient Care Problems – Part I

We know, as a nurse you must be having some of the greatest advices for your patients. There are, however, some problems that patients face and yet are left unnoticed. This results in lack of patient care and thereby irritable patients.

Not only nurses find satisfaction in taking care of their patients, above all, it's also a nurse's responsibility to make patients feel comfortable in the hospital premises or wherever the nurses intend to provide health care. Is it difficult? - Not at all. Is it worth it? - Sure it is.

'Who is Who' Problem of the Patients

Unidentifiable scrubs or color of the uniforms of the health care professionals and the other staff confuses the patients. Patients get to meet many of the members of the hospital staff. The nursing staff, the doctor, the cleaning staff and the list may go on and on.

The solution: Do patients know them? - No. In fact, patients suffer from an identity crisis. Unfamiliarity brings chaos. Name tags along with the designation and colored scrubs for different staffs, however, lead to familiarity. In addition, you can try to introduce yourself, and even the other staff who enters, so that the patient knows whom he/she is meeting. This may also remind the other staff about the need of introduction.

Understandably Lost and Confused Patients

Patients may often feel left out of the hospital's staff conversations. Mostly, they are out of the loop of the various procedures, processes, and information about their health in general and thus left confused. Isn't it apparent that not knowing what's going around you will leave you perplexed? Somehow, even patients feel frightened when they are unaware of the plans concerning them.

How to solve this problem? Who does not know how nurses are notoriously multitasking human beings! You can certainly use this trait while treating your patients. Enter the room with full information about the patient's health condition and make them know. Also, if the patient is to be taken for a test, make sure you're able to explain him/her how the process goes.

For more tips related to the patient's care, stay tuned. Until then, remember - Sometimes, the solution lies in the problem itself, all we need is a little maturity.