{"id":42,"date":"2024-10-07T20:48:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2024-10-09T18:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T18:37:15","slug":"general-thoughts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/07\/general-thoughts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><em>When someone shows you who they are, believe them<\/em>. \u2013 Maya Angelou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u200bWhether speaking with a physician, a fellow nurse colleague, or an attorney I have learned to be a good listener, absorb what is being said, and then confirm that it is accurate or share the truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">As a new nurse, I trusted my fellow senior nurses and when they guided me on a procedure that was new for me I trusted they were telling me the correct way. That worked for about a week! I quickly learned that everyone is a shark in scrub clothing because if something goes wrong you are the only one with the blame. Of course, I have stories where I had phenomenal mentors and support, but in this particular instance on week two as a solo nurse I followed the recommendation of a senior nurse and it did not go well. The solutions I mixed crystalized while infusing because you could not run the medications together. Now I am extremely grateful that there was no harm to the patient. This is called a near miss! But I was the only one in the room needing to explain myself and my actions and I could not say I did that because I was told to or because she said so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The major lesson learned, be an advocate and source of truth for myself. I cannot trust that others will lead me in the right direction. Do my research. I am happy to follow others who show that they understand something and have a good reason for why they are doing something, but I will not follow blindly. Just because you are proclaiming you are the expert, are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether speaking with a physician, a fellow nurse colleague, or an attorney I have learned to be a good listener, absorb what is being said, and then confirm that it is accurate or share the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[5,12,16],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations","category-thoughts","tag-conversations","tag-medical-education","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugheslegalnurseconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}