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I was 19 years old, studying for my associate\u2019s degree in nursing. It was the winter of my last semester, and I was headed for the library. \u201cCome eat lunch with us and study for the psych quiz tomorrow,\u201d one of my classmates said. \u201cThe neurology exam isn\u2019t until next week. We can cram for it later.\u201d I shook my head. I couldn\u2019t explain it. But I just couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that I had to study my neurology materials for class right now. <\/em><\/p>\n

I found a secluded spot in the library, peeled off my heavy wool coat and opened my textbook to a sec\u00adtion the teacher hadn\u2019t yet covered\u2014the signs and symptoms<\/a> of head injuries. I found myself absorbed in the material. Like nothing else in the world mattered. When I glanced at my watch, three hours had passed. I hurried home to my mother\u2019s…and found Mom lying on the porch steps. She\u2019d slipped on a patch of ice.<\/p>\n

I helped her to the sofa. One moment she was alert, the next she was groggy. A list of symptoms popped up in my mind. Things I\u2019d just read about. I rushed Mom to the hospital, where she underwent surgery to remove a blood clot in her brain. \u201cHad she gone to bed tonight,\u201d the neuro\u00adsurgeon told me later, \u201cshe probably would\u2019ve died in her sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was my first experience with nurse\u2019s intuition. But not the last. I\u2019ve been a nurse for more than 40 years. I\u2019ve worked in every field the profes\u00adsion has, from critical care to geron\u00adtology. I\u2019ve authored more than 100 articles in medical journals, I\u2019ve written four award-winning nursing text\u00adbooks and I have a Ph.D. in health and human services. My expertise has served me well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s my intuition, though, that\u2019s been my greatest guide. It has told me things about my patients that no chart, journal or textbook ever could. Though some scientists may scoff at the phenome\u00adnon, for which there is little beyond anecdotal evidence, there\u2019s no deny\u00ading its existence. Whether you call it a hunch, a sixth sense, a nudge or a special inner knowing, nurses have been relying on their instincts to treat the patients in their care since before the days of Florence Nightingale.<\/p>\n

Some, it seems, use it more than others. Nursing is both art and sci\u00adence, and not every nurse is intuitive. It\u2019s a skill that must be honored and honed. In fact, according to the Uni\u00adversity of Minnesota, it\u2019s more experienced nurses who are more likely to use intuition. Research also indicates that those who are <\/em>intuitive share certain traits. They\u2019re introspective, highly observant. And they listen, really <\/em>listen, to people.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: CHECK OUT THESE REMARKABLE NURSING TALES!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Take nurse practitioner and instructor Sylvia Gardner, a former colleague. She re\u00adcalls a patient, an alcoholic, who walked into her clinic in West Virginia one day, limping and staggering. He claimed he hadn\u2019t had a drink in days. No one believed him. \u201cEveryone assumed he was fine,\u201d Sylvia says. \u201cThey said he just \u2018needed to go home and sleep it off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But Sylvia had a different reaction. Warning bells went off in her head, unlike anything she\u2019d ever experienced. She listened to her inner voice and examined the patient more closely. In fact, he had a fracture in his leg. Had Sylvia suc\u00adcumbed to stereotypes, the patient would\u2019ve been discharged and for\u00adgotten. \u201cI learned very early on,\u201d Sylvia says, \u201cthat you simply cannot short\u00adcut listening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening to oneself is important, even if doing so seems unorthodox. That\u2019s what happened to post-anesthesia care nurse Kimberly Full\u00ader, who relied on her instincts to treat a diabetic patient in his thirties three days after he underwent a cardiac catheterization and stent placement. The doctor had already written the patient\u2019s discharge orders. But Kim\u00adberly had a funny feeling about the \u201cfunny feeling\u201d the patient casually mentioned in his right arm. She recognized the patient was in trouble, even though heart attack victims typically feel discomfort in their left arm, not their right.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know your wife\u2019s on her way to pick you up,\u201d Kimberly told the patient, \u201cbut let\u2019s get a quick EKG. If everything\u2019s okay, we\u2019ll send you home.\u201d The patient was annoyed by Kimberly\u2019s interference. Until the test proved Kimberly\u2019s own funny feeling and the patient was rushed back into the cath lab for another stent placement.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt that intuitive abili\u00adties like Kimberly\u2019s stem, to a good degree, from experience. But part of a nurse\u2019s intuition remains a mystery. From my numerous interviews with fellow nurses, it\u2019s clear that many see their instincts as closely intertwined with spirituality. Could it be that God equips nurses with an intuitive gift, one that helps them see what others miss?<\/p>\n

Gwen Skidmore, a longtime ER nurse, certainly thinks so. She told me her intuition is a \u201cspiritual thing\u201d that makes her hyperaware when something isn\u2019t right. She prays for God\u2019s guidance before each and every shift. After praying, she\u2019ll often get a hunch that urges her to \u201cdo something more\u201d for a particular pa\u00adtient. She describes it as an uneasy feeling that propels her to get help before a crisis occurs. \u201cI just know,<\/em>\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not anything you can learn. There\u2019s often just something about a patient that you can\u2019t put your finger on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gwen\u2019s interventions have helped alter the course of many lives. So much so that patients seek her out to thank her. Doctors too. \u201cI always tell new nurses to \u2018go with your gut,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cIt will never fail you.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lesson I learned the night my instincts saved my mother\u2019s life. And again, seven years later, on the last day of my Bachelor of Science nursing program. My professor ended class with words that would define the rest of my career: \u201cWhenever you have a hunch about one of your patients, pay special attention. It will lead you in a direction that no theory ever can.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, I headed for the hospital, where I worked as a gastro\u00adenterology nurse clinician. It was a Friday, and the support staff had gone home for the day. So it was up to me to wheel my patient, Roger, to his car. He\u2019d just received a clean bill of health after an outpatient pro\u00adcedure on his esophagus. On the elevator down to the lobby, though, a hunch like my teacher described completely overcame me.<\/p>\n

When Roger and I exited the elevator, I ducked into the ladies\u2019 room and grabbed a paper towel. I jotted my home number on it, something I nev\u00ader did, and gave it to Roger\u2019s wife. Just in case, I told her. Early the next day, the phone rang. It was Roger\u2019s wife. She said Roger\u2019s skin was clammy and he was vomiting blood. I hung up and immediately called for an ambulance. I met Roger and his wife at the ER. If he hadn\u2019t gotten there just when he did, he would\u2019ve bled to death.<\/p>\n

Somehow my intuition got me to do something I\u2019d never done before. Just the right thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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