What Stops Nurses and Midwives Taking More Smart Risks?
Barriers to risk-taking for nurses and midwives
In our webinar Braver Than Before: An Introduction to Smart Risk-Taking, we talk about smart risks, not in terms of the standard of care that nurses and midwives deliver, but in their relationships with others, both at work and at home. Examples of smart risks include setting stronger, healthier boundaries, asking for help, having a difficult conversation that may lead to conflict or simply saying “no” to something.
In our recent webinar An Introduction to Smart Risk Taking, for nurses and midwives across the UK, 70% of attendees said that it was a fear of how they might be judged by others that was the biggest barrier to them being braver and taking more risks.
What stops nurses and midwives taking more smart risks?
Building awareness of and taking smart risks are crucial in helping us live and lead bravely.
Introduction to Taking Smart Risks is an interactive and high-energy experiential session, based on the research of Dr Brené Brown provides tools and strategies to take action that can make a difference to our mental health and resilience, cultivating increased confidence and ability to lean into our goals, thriving braver than before.
Through attending this session, participants will:
Learn what smart risk-taking is and how to lean into the vulnerability of being braver at work and at home
Identify how you want to show up and recognise the “not good enough” concerns of risk-taking and the fears that hold us back
Understand the emotional responses to vulnerability and uncertainty and how to manage these constructively
Challenge preconceptions and dispel the myths surrounding the concepts of risk, uncertainty, and emotional exposure.
Cultivate courage and confidence building increased trust and psychological safety.
Learn practical tools and strategies to build and strengthen smart risk taking and emotional resilience for yourself and others
If you would like to book a free Introduction to Smart Risk Taking webinar for the nurses and midwives in your organisation, get in touch here.
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