What are you really good at?

I have a lot of empathy and compassion for my patients. Even the mean ones that no one else can stand I am able to see as being scared, or hurting, or whatever, and still treat them with kindness and dignity. I especially love the elderly and even when they are climbing out of bed or have dementia and are cussing me for asking them to take their pills I can look at them and see the little girl or young woman that they once were and appreciate the intrinsic value that they possess as a human being created in God's image.

I can give an awesome IM injection in the middle of mass chaos, with six security guards on top of the patient

You have security guards to hold them down? What a concept.

I'm awesome in codes. It's a blessing and a curse...

Schmoozing. I excel at telling patients, families, doctors, administration what they want to hear....

and then get done what needs to be done.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing, but I am extremely good at working with people. I can make the most combative patients calm down. I can't quite explain it. It's funny because the other nurses are looking at me like I'm crazy when I tell them how much I connect with the patient. I get them to take their meds without objection. I'm good at making them laugh even in the worst of times. I have one patient beg me not to make her laugh anymore because she had abdominal surgery and it hurts too much to laugh. I think it's because I'm really clumsy, but I try to be extremely graceful and funny about tripping in front of the family members and the patient. I make fun of myself and they think it's hilarious. It's good to have a sense of humor.What can I say?

I was always pretty good at IVs and placing foleys in little old contracted ladies. I think my best assets, though, were dedication and loyalty. I was a charge nurse for many years and if you were working with me, (even if I had my own group of patients, which was most of the time) and the shift ended and you were still there working and charting because you had a bad day, I would be right there with you. I would help until the work was done. I always felt that if I was responsible for dividing up the work and a nurse or two were running around all day like chickens with their heads cut off and others were not, I didn't do something right. I always hated it when managers, supervisors and charge nurses waltzed out the door at 7:00 after a horrendous shift, leaving other nurses behind in basically a war zone.

Schmoozing. I excel at telling patients, families, doctors, administration what they want to hear....

and then get done what needs to be done.

Me too! I calm ruffled feathers well. Everybody's feathers. Staff. Management. Pts and families. It's a gift, but I'd rather be good at making money.

I am a great listener and have a great memory. I'm told often that I am comforting to be around.

I'm the "go to" for difficult IV catheter placements and intubations. I placed a 22gu cath. in the cephalic vein of a 14 ounce hypoglycemic kitten last year. Got it first poke. I've also intubated around laryngeal tumors. Rabbit intubation is not for the faint of heart.

I seem to calm people down during crisis situations. I've been told that I have a lot of empathy and that I really advocate for the patient (pet).

Fuzzy

... just recently someone told me that i look like i "know what i'm doing" :)

I am a "go to " person for IV's and NG's and Foleys.

I am told I am a good teacher. (I don't feel that way, but I am told I am)

I get told I am a good charge nurse, but I absolutely loathe being in charge.

I'm good at calming down the most outrageous and anxious patients. I have a voice that is soft, soothing, and calm. Patients hear me talk and automatically calm down. I think its' a gift:)