Are you being held back in your career by self-limiting beliefs? These are those nagging thoughts that you’re not quite good enough or an imposter in your nursing role.

Such anxieties can hamper professional development, discouraging nurses from stepping forward for new opportunities and job promotion.

So how do you overcome these doubts? Gemma Stacey, director of the Florence Nightingale Foundation’s Academy, has some answers and inspiration for us all.

The academy runs a series of leadership and development courses including on unlocking the barriers that hold nurses back on an individual level.

In this episode, she tells Nursing Standard editor Flavia Munn about the importance of developing leadership skills from the outset of a nurse’s career and how honing your communication skills plays an important role.

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.

Find out more about the Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy and its courses: https://florence-nightingale-foundation.org.uk/academy/

For more episodes of the Nursing Standard podcast, visit rcni.com/podcast

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