Hard skills make up most of your structured nursing education, but your soft skills determine what kind of nurse your patients see you as. You may know all the nursing knowledge in the world, but it’s your compassion and human touch that mean even more to your patients. The nurse who spends extra time listening to patients and supporting them in difficult times will become etched in their memory.
Nurses consistently rank among the most honest and ethical professionals, and this is increasing in recent years, according to Gallup polls. One of the core reasons people trust nurses is because they possess many of these soft skills.