Jul 11 8:49am
Ayda Pomare
Hello everyone,
My guiding principles and beliefs are compassion, empathy, and communication.
As nurses, we know how important it is for us to empathize with our patients and be compassionate not only towards our patients, and their families but also to our coworkers. Being able to have open communication with the healthcare team and communicate in a professional and timely manner.
By having open communication with everyone involved in the team we can create a better workspace, people will feel safe and heard when they approach you. Enabling your team to express themself without feeling judged or not understood, can lead to nurses not wanting to be part of your team.
Before nursing, I worked at various jobs where I had to learn how to become a leader. I think we have all heard the phrase “Leaders are not born they are made”
I had to make myself a leader, I’m a shy introverted person who dislikes talking in public, and I had to learn to put all my insecurities aside.
In my short time as a nurse, I have had several different leaders. Some close the door to new ideas and think we should just follow the leader blindly; others are more open to listening and having an open door to communication.
Working with psych patients can be very challenging, and sometimes is hard to understand their actions and behaviors.
This environment requires nurses to be empathic and compassionate and communicate respectfully to our patients.
One instance where my nursing values helped us, we had a patient very agitated and being verbally abusive towards staff and other patients, I asked the patient in a firm but compassionate manner to explain to me what was making him angry, and after listening to him for a few minutes, he finally calms down and had a good rest of the day.
