"I really want to be liked and be a contributing member of the team, but I always stop and do a check-in before enthusiastically saying I'll do something I'm not sure about! I know the basics of nursing skills, so if I can look it up in the policy and procedure manual, such as a simple but different dressing change, I am able to do that independently. If it's totally novel, I will ask for supervision when first performing it so that I always work within the scope of my nursing practice."

"If I'm asked to complete a nursing task I've never done before, I will use our hospital's intranet site to read about the procedure and/or watch a video about completing the procedure. If I feel comfortable doing the task after looking up the instructions, I will do so. If the task is complex or very different from something I've done before, and I don't feel competent to do it without supervision, I will ask for help. I would ask either another floor nurse or the charge nurse to review the steps with me and supervise me while I perform the task. That way, I can make sure that I'm learning about a task that I am responsible for completing while ensuring that my patient receives safe care."