Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

Down time can be just fine playing bangers from them 90s.

Tea break.

Lunt break.

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down

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well Well, hello and welcome to Mo's Monday Minute, a shorty episode of the straight A nursing

podcast where I share a quick tip you can start using to improve your practice or your habits

right away. For more in-depth topics, check out the episodes that I release

on Thursdays. So for today's quick episode, we're going to talk about three things that you

should always be checking at the start of your shift. So when emergencies or tense situations

happen, it's amazing, amazing how often the most basic task can feel

overly complicated. And I say it all the time. As soon as things get really intense, I just

turn dumb. Like I need to set myself up for success ahead of time so that when the pressure is on and it's critical,

I can actually open, you know, a package of IV tubing without fumbling around, right?

I just, my body stops working, my brain stops working.

And the reason this happens is because that fight or flight response just takes over. It takes up a ton of your brain's processing power. Your adrenaline's running. It's really hard to focus. And you're kind of in your head freaking out a little bit, right? So this is no time for you to have to figure out how to do something. It's better if you've already

kind of set yourself up for success. And since seconds can and do often count in these very

tense and critical situations, I always make sure that I do these three things at the start

of a shift or if I'm caring for a patient.

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