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Who You’ll Hear
Kati Kleber, MSN RN CCRN-K – Nurse educator, former cardiac med-surg/stepdown and neurocritical care nurse, author, speaker
Melissa Stafford, BSN RN CCRN SCRN – Highly experienced and currently practicing nationally certified neurocritical care nurse
What You’ll Learn
- Know your tasks
- Assertiveness
- Safety
- Incident Reports
Contrary to popular belief, nurses as not perfect. Nurses make mistakes. In this episode, we discuss the mistakes we’ll never forget, as well as a few others. We also discuss some tips on how to deal with mistakes as a new nurse.
Nurses Make Mistakes
“The potential for harm in the absence of diligence is profound” – Kati Kleber
- Respect the fact that you can make an error at any turn – do not take this lightly
- Stay up to date on policy – be familiar with them for yourself
- Policies change and it is your responsibility to be aware of these
Know your tasks
- It’s your responsibility to know the safest way to do the tasks you need to complete
Be assertive when you need to focus
- This may need to be done when passing meds, adjusting IV pumps, adjusting monitors, or assessing patients
- Talking point: “I would love to finish this convo – if you could give me just a few minutes to focus on (blank; these medications/programming this pump/programming this monitor) then let’s chat.”
Safety is always the priority
Be unapologetic about patient safety to everyone
- From physicians to fellow nurses to patients and families
Subjective vs. Objective Data – helpful resources
Subjective Data Vs. Objective Data in Nursing – the Nerdy Nurse
Incident reports
The process for each place is different – know how to do thisFill these out whenever necessary – they are not a way to penalize you
- Maybe there is a process that needs to be changed – this documentation enables this change
- We have all filled these out multiple times… for ourselves, for larger situations, and other times
More resources on nurses making mistakes
- Anatomy of a Super Nurse: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming Nursey – all of chapter 11
- Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for Patients and Yourself – all of chapter 9
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