How can I become a good nurse?

These questions highlight that care and compassion are difficult to define, but as a minimum, ‘caring’ must involve respecting, valuing and responding to other people. Beyond this only you can decide what kind of a nurse you wish to become.

Caring about others also means wanting the best possible outcomes for them. It follows that a nurse who really ‘cares’ will want evidence about how to achieve these outcomes, and will need the skills to make decisions in complex situations. Care and compassion themselves require that a good nurse must have a brain as well as a heart.

A caring nurse would not only want the best for others and know how this may be achieved, but would want to make a difference. It takes courage to respond to people who are distressed and vulnerable; to advocate patient care or to challenge and change practice. Above all it takes courage to be the nurse you want to be if you see others fail to value people as individuals or ‘cut corners’. A good nurse needs courage, as well as a heart and brain.

If you wish to become a good nurse it is your care and compassion for others that will provide you with motivation to learn, and every day presents you with opportunities to develop. Every time you adopt a positive attitude towards learning something new, or arriving on duty is a decision about the kind of nurse you wish to become.

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http://www.learnhowtobecome.org/nurse/