Anne J.

My director of midwifery, who was a great mentor to me, always said that it's not about how many hours you work, but how efficiently you're doing the work. She taught me that you have to make ways of how efficiently you can do the work and have good outcomes. She was very diligent in everything she did, even writing policies and guidelines, and I learned from her about being diligent in doing the work, timekeeping, and keeping to priorities.

I would say to embrace lifelong learning and not to be afraid to step into new domains. I always find that when nurses hear about digital technology, they say 'oh, digital, oh, no, no, I'm not.' So I would say not to be afraid, and also embrace that it's not that once you've graduated, you have finished your education. You need to have lifelong learning. Healthcare, technology, and data are increasingly interconnected, so as a nurse, you need to embrace all this and believe that you will be able to do it. Sometimes in nursing we think about bedside care and communicating and providing care to women or patients physically, but we also need to think about how we can efficiently do that using the technology which is available, so that we can provide the best care possible to the women and patients who we are taking care of. We need to be data-focused as well.