How to make your nursing career dreams come true
By Emma Soy, RN, BSN, Nursing Coach -
Published June 2008
If you could do anything in nursing
what would it be? What is it that you would like to achieve? How high in the clinical
ladder would you like to climb? Every nurse begins his/her career with a dream,
and most nurses do not achieve their dreams because they give up, they get distracted,
they resign or they dream too small. A dream is something that is within you that
causes you to stretch beyond what you think are possible.
Your mission as a nurse is not only to be a caretaker, but also to be a change
agent that can only be accomplish with a bold dream.
Be aware of fear, the dream killer
Fear is the greatest enemy of success.
People have the fear of failure, and they would rather move in life being prudent,
than to risk failure at trying something different or something new. Nurses are
afraid of trying new skills, meeting new people, being in a new environment, and
they are afraid of change. Pursuing
your dreams will bring lasting joy and fulfillment to your career, which has nothing
to do with being prudent. If you want your dreams to come true, the first thing
that you must do is to identify your fears and conquer them.
Guard your dreams
from critical people
Do not be alarm if your co-workers or
people that are close to you are not your cheerleaders, because some people do not
like to see others pursuing daring dreams. When you start to dream big dreams around
people who do not have dreams, they may develop bad attitudes towards you, they
may become envious, and they may even try to keep you from achieving your goals.
Keep from sharing your dreams with everyone, and build a core group of supportive
people who genuinely care about your career to bounce ideas from.
How to pursue your
nursing dreams?
To begin pursuing your nursing dreams,
you must learn to do things differently than the crowd. What set you apart from
the rest is the way you think, the way you live and the way that you see things
that are different from others. Successful people are not content with owning big
dreams, but they have the desire to achieve them and to go after them wholeheartedly.
Achieving your nursing dreams depends on how committed you are to your dreams, and
what you are willing to do to see them come true.
How to create a
nursing dream
If you do not already have a nursing
career dream deep down within you, then I dare you to begin dreaming.
A dream is a goal or a fervent hope with a sense of possibilities, potentials,
and without limit. A big dream is the fuel that will keep the fire burning, the
passion alive in your career, it gives you directions, hopes and able to overthrow
barriers that might try to keep you from succeeding. Begin at looking for potential
gaps in the nursing profession, and try to fill them.
Are they any principles in other disciplines that can be applied in nursing?
If so, studied them, applied them in your daily routines, develop new sets of skills,
and teach them to others.
Conclusion
Dreams not only will benefit you, but
they have the potential to impact the world. Don�t take your dreams to the grave,
but take the time to discover them and commit to see them come true. Ask yourself
these questions as you pursue your nursing career dreams, what�s the worst thing
that could happen if you pursue your dreams and fail? And what is the best thing
that could happen if you pursue your dreams and fail?