As senior nurses and AHP's, you are strong, caring, and professional at all times. You challenge practice in order to improve patient care when needed. You work in a team, collaborate with other disciplines, and crack on.
Or maybe you don’t – not all the time.
There are high stakes involved in healthcare to be competent and self-sufficient at all times.
Yet sometimes it’s just too much to stick your head up above the parapet and risk showing how vulnerable you feel, potentially exposing a weakness.
It might be a particular task, an incident, or a staffing issue.
Or it might be a relationship problem with a colleague you are struggling to sort out. Whether it be power dynamics, hierarchical or personality variations, cultural, or generational differences. It's there.
So, you keep your head down, and fret about it in the middle of the night.
You turn up to work the next day, you rinse and repeat.
It’s fine to talk about vulnerability when its other people, children or patients, but accepting it in yourself is a different matter. You might feel judged or be criticised if you start to talk about it.
After all, you are supposed to be strong, caring and professional at all times….
What’s the fall out of this? How comfortable and safe do you feel in sharing your feelings, to have those open communications with someone? Do you get emotional, defensive or shut down and just keep quiet?
How is this affecting your work, your team, or your learning opportunities? Are you starting to feel detached, anxious, and uncomfortable going to work?
Be reassured, these are perfectly normal human reactions to a given situation.
What if you could talk to someone objectively like me, outside of your usual network, to help you manage this?
If this resonates with you drop me a message and let’s have a conversation. Or book your free 30-minute consultation via my website at: www.jennycrompton.com
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