THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT DO AS A NURSE.
1. UNDERESTIMATING YOURSELF
• Trust your knowledge
• Believe in your abilities
• Recognize your value
Confidence grows through experience and learning.
2. BEING AFRAID TO ASK QUESTIONS
• Learning opportunities
• Better understanding
• Stronger teamwork
The best nurses never stop asking questions.
3. COMPARING YOUR JOURNEY TO OTHERS
• Focus on growth
• Set personal goals
• Celebrate progress
Your journey is uniquely yours.
4. IGNORING SELF-CARE
• Rest
• Healthy habits
• Stress management
Healthy nurses provide better care.
5. FEARING FEEDBACK
• Professional growth
• Skill development
• Continuous improvement
Growth begins where comfort ends.
6. FORGETTING WHY YOU STARTED
• Compassion
• Service
• Impact
Remember the purpose behind the work.
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We're indeed doomed.
There’s something I’ve seen over and over again in nursing: most of the problems that grow into serious situations didn’t start big. They started small. A moment of uncertainty. A silence where a question should have been asked. An assumption made under pressure.
That’s what inspired my new book, Better to Ask Than to Harm, available from 1st July
At its core, this book is about nursing and patient safety. It’s about reducing avoidable harm by strengthening one simple but powerful habit in clinical practice: asking the right questions before acting.
This book is for every nurse, no matter where you are in your journey.
If you’re a student nurse, it helps you build safe habits early, so you don’t carry avoidable mistakes into your practice.
If you’re a newly qualified nurse, it gives you the confidence to speak up, clarify, and protect your decision-making when everything feels fast and overwhelming.
If you’re a senior nurse, it reinforces something we sometimes forget under pressure: asking is not weakness, it is clinical safety in action.
At its heart, this book is about protection. Protecting your confidence when you’re doubting yourself. Protecting your practice when things don’t feel clear. And most importantly, protecting patients by reducing avoidable harm caused by assumption, silence, or fear of speaking up.
Nursing will always be complex. But safety often comes back to one simple discipline: ask before you act.
1st July — Better to Ask Than to Harm will be available.
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