Trusting Your Intuition as a Nurse
Channel: EmpoweRN
Date: 2017-07-31

A nurses intuition can be likened to that of a mother. If nurses had a dollar for every time they caught something just out of sheer 6th sense, we would all be rich. One thing that I was not expecting when I started out as a nurse was to have so much say in my patients care. I guess perhaps some people thought of this or already knew this. However, I was honestly just presuming that I would follow orders… of course after checking them.
I was pretty surprised that when I only had about 6 months of experience a doctor once asked me. Which medication do you think would help him blood pressure… I mean really? You went through how many years of medical school and your asking my opinion? I think sometimes doctors may speak with us and ask us questions to give themselves time to think things over. Or maybe to help them not forget things. 
Regardless of the reason, we are a pretty important piece of our patients care team puzzle. Which is a pretty big honor. With us spending so much time with the patients, it is very natural for us to know more about what is going on with the patient and it is also very natural for us to have a lot of experience with different patients and hands on, we see what works.
With this type of responsibility, we have to make sure we trust our intuition and advocate for our patients accordingly.
I hope you loved this weeks motivational tip!
See you next week!
Much love, 
~Caroline
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