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Can Nurses Learn From a High School Football Team?

November 08, 20141 min read

“I don't believe there is a place for bullying in a profession that focuses on caring for others.” - Audrey Friedman, RN

Nightingales, this is such a great idea!

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On my unit, myself and some of the other senior precepting staff have stepped up and taken new nurses who have had some difficulty with bullying, under our collective Nightingale wings.

  • We look out for great and appropriate assignments.

  • We have ourselves assigned in their pod.

  • We check in frequently to see how they are doing.

  • We invite and engage them in impromptu learning opportunities.

  • We have meal breaks together.

  • We encourage meals together within the staff.

  • We intervene and interface in real-time events of bullying.

  • We encourage staff to approach us with issues regarding new staff or new graduate nurses or students so we can evaluate the complaints, situations and brainstorm resolutions that will address the issues and respond to both sides.

The OUTCOME HAS BEEN FANTASTIC!

Our new nurses are more engaged than ever, transitioning out of orientation easier, and are socializing easier into our groups.

It has made for happier staff all around.

I don't believe there is a place for bullying in a profession that focuses on caring for others.

What ideas have worked for you?

Inspired and Be Inspired Nightingales!

Audrey RN

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Audrey Friedman, RN

Audrey Friedman, RN has been a nurse for over 37 years with a wide variety of amazing experiences helping people in clinical situations in newborn intensive care, oncology, bone marrow transplant, cardiology, and adult intensive care units. Audrey has enjoyed providing care to patients, their families, the community in a variety of clinical roles including bedside nursing, case manager, education, travel nurse, office nurse, community speaker, online educator and legal nurse consultant. Audrey has loved being a mentor to nurses in various stages of their career from nursing students to experienced nurses as well as collegial opportunities to paramedics and firefighters in mentor roles as a creative clinical preceptor, educator, and blogger. Audrey always wanted to be a nurse and fondly remembers reading children’s’ books on Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale and costumes of nurses’ caps around her house believing there was magic in the white cap. Audrey graduated in nurses whites and caps and still believes in the magic nurses have, to affect change in healing in people’s lives. Audrey’s ‘Nursing Wit and Wisdom’ project for nurses was nominated for the 2015 Nightingale awards. One of the wonderful things about nursing, Audrey believes, is the ability to be a nurse in so many different clinical specialties, environments, and locations that as we are helping people heal, they are changing us too and we, as healers are never the same.

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Nurses have the unique privilege to have a backstage pass to our patients' and families' journeys. In the process, we teach, listen, clean up things only your mother or a toxic waste company would touch, and love to wake up doctors in the middle of the night.

And hopefully, we inspire and share our wisdom along the way.

The journey is not only for them, but for us as well. Our own journey as nurses has been seeded by what we experience. Do you see them as gifts or challenges? Can both inspire you?

I hope so!

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Be Inspired Nightingales!

Audrey Friedman, RN

Copyright © 2022 TekMatix

Audrey Friedman, RN