4. Discussion
Nursing and midwifery is a stressful profession due to requirements of patients’ care. It requires a high degree of self-regulation and EI. Especially when this care is provided to the women during the stress of pregnancy and child birth. Nursing students work as caregivers in clinical areas early in their education. So, EI is required to help them to control their emotions; as inability to control emotions can lead to increase anxiety, stress and negatively affect the quality of care.[22] Emotion is fundamental to nursing and midwifery practice consequently, EI is considered as an important skill for nurses. It can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, implementation of nursing
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This result is congruent with [28] In his study, of the four EI subscales, (receiving emotions, understanding emotions, using emotions, and managing emotions) the only significant correlation found was between understanding emotion and total clinical performance. On the other hand [37, 38] they checked the relationship between EI and nurses performance. Both of them demonstrated a significant positive relationship between all subscales of EI and nurses performance. This discrepancy between the present study and the latter studies might be related to the age and experience differences between the studies subjects. Where, the present study deals with student nurses with young age and limited experience, the latter studies deals with mature registered nurses with long experience. It is strongly acknowledged that age and experience play an important role in EI …show more content…
This result was consistent with the researches conducted by [39, 40, 41]The first had studied "validating relationships among attachment, EI and clinical communication". The second had studied "evaluation of EI and communication skills of health care manager candidates". The third had studied "The relationship between EI and communication skill, clinical competence & clinical practice stress in nursing students". They found a significant positive relationship between communication skills and total EI among study participants. Also nursing instructors make stress on communication and social skills as important factor in acquiring clinical performance
Nurses and physicians need to express themselves in a clear and precise manner, their message should rely on verification and collaborative problem solving. They need to displaying a calm and supportive demeanor under stress, maintenance of mutual respect, and authentic understanding of the unique role (Robinson, Gorman, Slimmer, Yudkowsky, 2010). Not everyone was born being able to express themselves in such a manner, therefore providing the necessary education and skills will help both nurses and physicians gain the confidence and competence they need to work
By 1900, midwives were no longer in a position of power; they made relatively little money, were not organized, and were not seen as professionals by society due to the lack of education. Physicians, on the other-hand, were attending about half the nation 's births, including nearly all births to middle- and upper-class women. It was the midwives that took care of women who could not afford a doctor. As more and more doctors became educated, the population began to see midwives as uneducated and an indecent way to have bring a child into the world. As midwives began to notice the importance of education, and how the lack of education enabled them from many opportunities, more midwives began to go to school to receive
LPN My career i am going to tell you about is a licensed practical nurse (LPN). A LPN is a nurse that has to do things like blood work and draw blood from people. LPN is one of the most helpful nurses their is. There are many more nurses that are helpful to.
Nursing is a most trusted and gratifying profession. As a nurse educator, I will express my passion for teaching by incorporating features such as clinical assessments, practical application of theory, evaluation, and role modeling into advanced nursing practice, from previous experiences and current experience and clinical practicum to find success and gratification in students chosen profession as well empowering leaners to develop their own strengths, beliefs, and personal attributes to become a good professional. Personally, I do have a positive attitude towards the personal and professional growth, and value ongoing learning and will stive to instill the same into my students learnig journey .. My objective as a Nurse Educator
This becomes difficult to manage when the midwife has several women and babies to care for, as well as having time to mentor students such as myself. Nurses and midwives take pride in their caring and compassionate traits. However, staffing levels may influence these important attributes. Each individual nurse is different and provides the best level of care possible, yet it is found that some nurses
The second key aspect related to expertise,the nurses must have technical skills in order to provide effective and safe care. The third aspect mentioned that nurses must have communicative capabilities. The nurses serve as spokespersons for patients who are often in vulnerable positions. The nurses are easily accessible and can act as a link between the patient and other professions.
According to Bramhall (2014), Effective communication one of the basic skills of nursing staff, which enhances patient care. Add to this the communication plays an important role in showing empathy and thus it becomes easy for the patient to report positive experiences or even the bad ones. I think that the most important things are to communicate not only with the patient but also with healthcare team members. In addition, nurses need to be able to communicate successfully with all member of the health care providers and to provide and give the full information about the patient
According to Julia Wood (2004), “communication is a systemic process in which individuals interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings. However, Sheppard (1993) suggests that, in the nurse–patient relationship, communication involves more than the transmission of information; it also involves transmitting feelings, recognizing these feelings and letting the patient know that their feelings have been recognized (M, 1993)”. It is a two way process. The patient conveys their fears and concerns to their nurse and helps them make a correct nursing diagnosis.
These skills include nurse-patient relationship skill, interactional skills, basic physical examination skills, clinical encounter across the life span, therapeutic communication skills, positive attitudinal skills etc. Assessing the development of nursing skills in students should be done often and acquiring of these nursing skills should also be a continuous learning process. This indicates that extensive experiences and supervision from mentors, preceptors, supervisors, teachers, considerable time on task and involvement of students are necessary to achieve a considerable nursing skill performance. The students’ interest in practice and the environment also influences the development and acquisition of nursing skills. In this case, students’ goals should include increased self-knowledge and scientific awareness in addition to their gradual improvement in professional nursing practice.
The article The making of a male midwife, written by Jon Kelly, focuses on two men and their experiences becoming midwives in a female dominated career path. To start, midwife is broken up into two part, “mid” meaning “with”, and “wif” meaning “woman”. The midwife is a certified nurse who cares for and supports a woman throughout her pregnancy, childbirth, and post care. The career of a midwife goes as far back as the 1550 BCE, where many women worked as midwives and men were later associated as obstetricians. The first encounter of controversy and gender division in this field was in the 1600’s, when scottish surgeon William Smellie published a book on midwifery and new concepts to improve the practice.
Appraisal and expression of emotions. The first factor of EI is the ability to properly determine and express one’s own emotions as well as to be sympathetic, appraise and express emotions of others. Every individual’s ability varies in precisely identifying, appraising and expressing his own emotions as well as the emotions experienced by others. Some people are attentive of their feelings they experience and can express their emotions whereas, some people cannot express their feelings and emotions or they are unaware of their emotions (Zhou, George, 2003).
This is one of the largest consequences of not knowing (Salcedo, 2013). For this reason, while being around friends and especially the staff, I try as much to be in touch with my emotion to create the normal work environment. Every day I adjust my emotional state to the demand of the work environment with a reaction that is suitable motivation and thought to be normal (Characteristics of an Emotionally Healthy Person, 2002). As I, motivator for others I fall short of self-motivated myself to go for things that I want such as goals this is where I fairly well on the stress assessment. Thus, having low emotional intelligence in this category
The word midwife cradles the definition “with woman”. Midwifery is a collaborative profession that prides its self on autonomy. This essay will explore midwifery within New Zealand focusing on the midwife and professional partnership. Voiced within this assignment is an understanding of the scope of midwifery practice. This paper delves into the roles of the Midwifery Council of New Zealand and the New Zealand College of Midwives and explains the functions they hold with regulation and support with midwifery care.
About the hours of adrenaline pumping through my veins as our team tried to save a patient’s life and the final feeling of disappointment as the patient expired despite our many efforts. But instead I simply answered, “It was okay honey, goodnight.” The purpose of this essay is to discuss the article "Strategies of Emotion Management" while debating over the positives and negatives of stress-inducing events nurses face, and finally the limits of the qualitative approach this article utilizes.
Emotional intelligence as the name states is related to intelligence regarding managing one’s emotions. The emotional intelligence of a person depicts how well he can manage his own emotions and control his/her behaviour. The notion of EI was first formally and properly introduced by Salovey and Mayer in 1970 and since then has become enormously popular throughout the vast domain of psychology. The topic of emotional intelligence has been stated in a large number of bestselling books, magazines and articles.