In our last Community Update, we reviewed recent social media posts regarding clinical education. Unfortunately, most of the stories did not positively portray nursing practice.
However, through the palpable frustration, anxiety, and fear, I saw the hearts of the nurses who engaged in the discussions. Responses were passionate and directed toward solutions.
For starters, we must promote, protect, and optimize our own health and well-being and that of our students by caring for and serving one another.
Join our purpose driven, patient centered community in the Teachers Transforming Nursing Education Facebook group. Use this group for academic and emotional support. Seek colleagues who can support you in your areas of need and be there for others in your areas of strength.
Think Like A Nurse Members can use our faculty development and student-facing webinars on self-care, promoting civility and professional identity, and becoming better educators to promote caring like a nurse so students can think like a nurse. Learn about becoming a member.
Heart matters!
Our hearts for nursing make us excellent caregivers and educators. We know how to care like nurses, which allows us to role-model thinking like nurses.
The “heart” you bring to class, clinical, and lab colors what your brain sees and does not see. In other words, your heart influences your assessment of your environment, patients, and students.
If we want our students to improve their thinking and clinical judgment and safely transition to practice, we must demonstrate what having the heart of a nurse means.
Live it out!
We represent a profession that society views as honest and trustworthy. Let’s consciously choose to wear our nurse’s hearts and professional identity on our sleeves every day. Let your nurse’s heart color your environment as you choose to serve and care for one another.
Collectively, we can demonstrate to the next generation of nurses what it looks like to have courage, conviction, and heart and what it looks like to solve problems.
Watch for posts calling for positive nursing stories. Watch for announcements about our next Facebook Live. It is time to turn the page on the dark and ugly. We want to illuminate the good in nursing, and that begins with you and me!
Take care,
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