The foundational principles of our practice need to be reinforced on
a regular basis. As with any skill you will start to lose mastery of
that skill without regular practice. I was speaking with a friend
recently who was quite a good golfer; but with the additional
responsibilities of his family he has not been able to golf as much as
he would like to. He’s noticed that his golf game is starting to
slip. The basic skills that we learned at one time in our practice
will start to slip too unless they are reinforced on a regular basis.
Things like mastery over medications and lab values become less
clear with time and without regular practice even skills like starting
an IV can become ineffective. At Ed4Nurses
we have a number of products and services designed to help you to
maintain those foundational skills throughout your practice. Our essentials programs
help you to understand some of the basic facets of your practice and
help reinforce them if it’s been some time since you last practiced
these skills. In addition our Nurses’ NewsWire can help you to stay up-to-date with current evidence-based practice and reinforce some of these foundational skills.
Extraordinary care doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because
of careful planning and re-evaluating your state of competence in all
areas of your practice including the basic foundation on which your
practice built. If you spend some time this fall re-evaluating all
areas of your practice, it will help you to be able to examine areas
that you need to strengthen as well as areas that were you like to add
additional knowledge. Spend some time today evaluating all areas of
your practice to see if they measure up to your expectations so that
you can provide extraordinary care.
In search of excellence,
David W. Woodruff, MSN, RN, CNS
President, Ed4Nurses, Inc.
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