New Nurse Practitioner: When You Don't Know the Answers
Aug 19, 2019
Sitting in the room, face-to-face with your patient, and they ask you point-blank: So what's wrong with me?
As a new grad I would dread this scenario— I'd freeze up, stutter, stumble and turn bright red (although it's hard for me not to do that). I never felt like I knew enough.
There's a better way around this.
And really, it's SO okay that you don't know all the answers.
In this video, I'll tell you:
- The MANY reasons why this is actually okay (and why we should probably even celebrate it), and
- The simple strategies I use to handle it.
(FYI: to slow down the audio speed, hit the gear symbol in the bottom right corner and change it to .75x or .5x. Closed captions are also located at the bottom R hand corner of the video.)
Here's that meme I was talking about:
Thanks so much for watching. Hang in there, and see you soon.