Comfort or Panic Zone

1. Speaking in front of people - 8
2. Teaching other nurses - 3
3. Teaching patients or family members - 3
4. Performing in a nursing leadership role such as a committee chairperson - 4
5. Performing in a nursing leadership role such as a unit manager - 8
6. Leading a group of nurses to make an important change in your workplace - 1
7. Providing nursing care to adults and seniors - 0
8. Providing nursing care to babies and children - 0
9. Performing new clinical skills (such as NG tube management, Trach care and suctioning, administering Blood products or TPN) - 5
10. Working closely and collaboratively with other interprofessional disciplines: physicians, pharmacists, dieticians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers etc. - 5
11. Participating in Code Blues or other emergency situations - 9
12. Practicing conflict resolution skills - 1
13. Practicing community health nursing in a developing country - 0
14. Writing scholarly papers - 5
15. Sitting on an ethics committee - 5

After giving your ratings, please give a short (ie 1-2 sentence) explanation or rationale for 3 of your ratings.

• Participating in Code Blues or other emergency situations – 9
  Being involved in Code Blues gives me anxiety because of the fast-decision-making skill that is required to do the job. The scenarios usually involve a life-or-death situation and the pressure to act quickly and correctly makes me overwhelmed.
• Providing nursing care to babies and children – 0
  I currently work as a pediatric nurse, so taking care of children is something that I do on a regular basis, and I really enjoy it. I feel comfortable working with this population.
• Speaking in front of people – 8
  I definitely do not enjoy talking in front of too many people. For some reason, I feel anxious and stressed about what I’m going to say and if I’ll say it right, of if I will forget everything. Specially, in English, because this is my second language.