 Hi guys, so I wanted to talk today about a question I get quite frequently and that is people always ask me, you know, I'm really shy, can I be a nurse? Like, I'm really scared to talk to people. Can I be a nurse? Will I be a good nurse? And so I wanted to talk a little bit about this. I feel like it's kind of difficult for me to really, truly talk about this because I'm a very outgoing person. I don't have a difficult time with meeting new people and talking to new people and interacting, but I do know a lot of nurses who are on the more shy side who are still wonderful nurses. I feel like that being a nurse, I don't want to say it's kind of different than like your normal outside setting. A lot of people are able to kind of separate their fears so to speak and just put themselves in the moment and be able to communicate with people and talk with people. And I know people who are kind of shy outside of work who are actually super outgoing during work, which is interesting, but I don't feel shyness prohibits you from being a good or bad nurse. I think that personally for myself, I kind of like to plan my interactions or plan things that I'm going to say or I plan things out in my head like so if a patient said this to me, how would I respond? And I think that comes a lot like when you're shy, you kind of worry about like how am I going to say this or how am I going to talk to this person? And I think a lot of that just comes with time and experience and also like planning out what you're going to say. I'm not going to lie. There's times when like patients or their family members say things to me and in my head I'm like, oh my God, I don't know what to say. Like how do I possibly like respond to that? But honestly like the only thing you need to know how to respond to is like, oh I'm not quite sure, let me figure that out or I'm not sure, let me look into that or I've never had that question before, so let me think about it. You know, you don't have to always answer people right off the bat if they say awkward things to you or have questions that you don't know. You don't have to know everything as a nurse. And as far as just like that fear of communicating with people it really does get easier. I've said this in a couple of my videos already. I had an instructor in my first semester of nursing school who said think about how scared you are the first time you walk into a patient's room. Think about how scared you are right now in your first semester of nursing school and that's how your patients feel when they're in the hospital and if you really think about that then you're able to kind of put yourselves in their shoes for the moment and really they're more scared of you than you are of them. Thank you guys for watching this video. If you're shy or not shy or have any advice or tips leave them in the comments below. But thank you guys for watching this video and I'll see you next time. Bye.