The three stages of courage in nursing

摘要

I remember my first day of nurse training; I was absolutely petrified as the bus pulled up outside the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham. Finding my way hrough the very long corridors to the school of nursing to meet others in my group, I had his perception that they were all going to be o much better than me and so much more experienced (like they'd all done some secret cadet nursing). But I actually found that everyone else was feeling exactly the same. Courage to extend your craft Miter the initial 6-week preparation, what struck me on my first day on the ward was that patients couldn't differentiate between me, with my hat with no stripes on, and my experienced colleagues. To them, a nurse was a nurse. Didn't they see me quaking in my boots as I walked onto the ward for the first time? And then there were the 'firsts'. No amount of injecting an orange in training school is going to prepare you for the moment where you first stick a needle into a patient's leg— when there's the first dressing you do, and the first changing of a nasogastric tube.