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When an experienced nurse joins your team, how do you recognise what they bring while working out what support they need?

The way you use a competency document can shape that conversation from the start.

Tubi shares her experience of arriving at a new emergency department with years of nursing experience and a list of competencies to complete. It opens a frank conversation with Naomi about what assessment captures, what it can miss, and how it feels to be the person waiting to be signed off.

They explore where formal assessment has a place, and how specific feedback can help someone understand their strengths and what to work on next. The conversation moves from welcoming experienced nurses to supporting new graduates, developing team leaders and learning through simulation debriefing.

In this episode:

• Recognising experience when a nurse joins a new team
• The limits of treating a competency check as the whole picture
• Giving feedback about specific parts of practice
• Using assessment tools to support learning between colleagues
• Coaching nurses as they step into team leader roles
• Building a relationship that keeps the learning conversation going

A question to take into your next shift: How could your next assessment conversation help this person understand one thing they do well and one thing to work on?

Hosted by Naomi and Tubi on Better Every Shift for Nurses.

This episode discusses nursing education and workplace experiences. It is not clinical instruction or a substitute for current clinical guidelines, required competency assessment or local policies.

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