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Overcoming self-limiting beliefs as a nurse

Published on: 5 Sep 2022

How nurses can overcome self-limiting beliefs to build confidence and further their career.

Gemma Stacey

Professor Gemma Stacey discusses how you can overcome barriers that prevent you from embracing new opportunities.

Self-limiting beliefs can hamper professional development, discouraging nurses from stepping forward for new opportunities and job promotion.

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The Florence Nightingale Foundation's Academy director Gemma Stacey discusses how leadership skills are developed from the very beginning of a nurse's career and how communication skills play an important role in professional development.

She also speaks about what she has learned personally as someone with dyslexia, and how to challenge perceptions and assumptions, plus the continuous and vital work of self-evaluation.

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