Indeed, challenges are inevitable in our day-to-day existence. Life g us with many concerns in the different aspects of our lives. It may be a difficult task to perform or a harsh co-worker to deal with. Whatever it is, we have to emerge victorious by facing these problems and offering valuable solutions to them. On another end, we can also turn these challenges into leadership opportunities.
How do we turn a nursing challenge into a leadership opportunity?
MAKING DECISIONS
Coming up with a decision is one of the hardest challenges in nursing. Apart from the fact that these decisions may cause lives of patients, our decisions also pose many consequences we cannot control. However, no matter how difficult it is to make decisions, with regards to our careers and work as nurses, coming up with these resolutions, makes us great leaders in the making. This challenge strengthens our ability to weigh the best options and take calculated risks.
OVERCOMING FEARS
Our fears are our enemies. However, if we can manage and overcome these fears, we become stronger and better. Also, these fears that we have in our profession as nurses, can be our stepping stone to improve ourselves. Say, fear in dealing with complex tasks might be a call for us to take advanced courses, or fear in dealing with difficult patients might ask of us to seek assistance from our immediate heads. These fears motivate us to transform them into skills and strengths.
BEING CONFIDENT
In itself, being confident is both a challenge and an opportunity. It is a challenge because not all of us are gifted with confidence but the good news is, it can be developed. Once confidence is developed, the ability to be a leader follows.
OPENNESS
We have to be honest with ourselves and learn to accept the things we can and cannot do. Being true to ourselves helps us recognize how we feel. When we can embrace these feelings, we can draw strength from them.
CHANGING PERSPECTIVE
If we are doing never seems to work or address a particular concern, perhaps, there must be another way to solve the problem. Changing our perspectives, allow us to look at a problem from a different angle. Sometimes, we think that it is always best to act on a problem conventionally. However, in most cases, a change in perspective is needed.
ASKING QUESTIONS
When we ask questions, it does not make us less than the person we are, instead, it develops the leader in us. It develops our ability to analyze a problem and take the lead in solving it. It expands our horizons on how we can deal with situations better.
SCIENCE OF WILLPOWER
The determination to succeed can help transform a nursing challenge into a leadership opportunity. If being successful is our goal as a nurse, nothing can drag us down.
These are some points that we can consider when we want to turn a nursing challenge into a leadership opportunity.
