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Fear in itself can be a cognitive bias. How do we deal with fear?

In the last session we learnt a four step response to acknowledging and managing emotions in medical practice. RARE: React, Accept, Reset, Engage. Sometimes with fear we only have time to react and engage.

Mental practice is the cognitive rehearsal of a skill in the absence of physical movement, its a warm up.

This is based on dual coding theory, recognising that your brain doesn’t know the difference from a learning perspective between a real and imagined experience.

Here Hicks and Spurr talk about mental practice but most importantly doing it with rigor.

Jesse Spurr

For his paid work, Jesse is a critical care nurse. Much to the dismay of his ever-patient (and infinitely more successful) wife, Jesse likes to use his “spare” time doing “volunteer” work in the form of conference organising, co-producing free, open-access healthcare simulation podcast Simulcast, producing nursing practice development blog and podcast Injectable Orange, and all manner of other healthcare, research and education pseudo-academic activities. An exercise science graduate, sport and functional fitness tragic, Jesse classes himself a lifelong student of teaching, learning, health and human performance. Jesse’s proudest roles are head cheerleader for his wife, and their near-adult daughter, and best friend and co-navigator of life to his young son living with autism and ADHD.


Chris Hicks
