This week, Sue and I get into career transition. Nic talks to Paul Armstrong, a leading career transition from Inner Sanctum Consulting, an expert who has had his own experience with career transition answers all the questions we have about "what's next"? He challenges us to think more broadly about our skill set. Nurses are pretty amazing creatures and we possess skills that we take for granted that other industries invest years and thousands of professional development dollars in growing in their own employees. Nurses can inherently think laterally: linear thinking is not useful when we're presented with a patient load - we must triage, prioritise and time manage appropriately. We innately know how to manage high pressure situations: how many professionals come to work with life and death situations ever at our periphery. Nurses must be comfortable with the fact that any one of their patients may arrest out of the blue. We know communication: we talk to all manner of people everyday - we might be nursing the homeless guy in Room 3 and the CEO of a large multinational company in Room 4: that takes skill. So Paul walks us through seeing our skill set as transferrable, as opposed to clinically subspecialised.
