Reflection Essay On Communication In Nursing

The patients they need to take care of may range from premature infants with undeveloped lungs to elderly patients who have diseased lungs. Given that breathing is essential to life, it is no doubt that your role as an RT can make a huge impact in the lives of many people. Your compassion and expertise may give someone a chance to enjoy his life longer. Anyone working in the healthcare industry must be competent enough to address the needs of the people they serve. Hence, a good education is extremely important.

There is a correlation between health care members providing information in a timely manner to patients who need to make decisions about their care and treatment and the quality of care patients receive. Lack of care resulted from physicians being reluctant to refer patients to palliative care. Due to a lack of honest open discussions regarding diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options patient’s suffering was prolonged. Since palliative care focuses on improving symptoms, dignity and quality-of-life it is important that sufficient attention is placed on the complex needs of individuals. The delivery of palliative care has become challenging for nurses.

Follow-ups with the convalescent can improve a bond as well. Simply calling the family of the patient or the actual patient and giving them an update or good news can greatly ameliorate the relationship between the two. More often than not, patients are not having a good time. Obviously because they are in the presence of a nurse they are either sick, injured, uncomfortable and probably frustrated and scared. Nursing is a highly onerous occupation that can become a burden for some, but patients should never see that frustration.

Post incdents review and debriefing of the staff team and clients has a positive impact on staff and client to learn from the incident and plan , so as to avoid repeating violence again. It is practiced in our hospital however, it is limited and not practicing effectively. Nurses would however utilize support from collegues and the incharge (informal supports) rather than from organization in structured way. Significantly, nurses need to feel safe and supported when they been assaulted and victimized. This cam be achieved through formal support program like debriefing system following the incident.Additionaly, it is necessary that

Management of Care Case Study Josepha is working on a medical surgical unit with three other RNs and one LPN. There is also a male and a female patient care tech. Josepha has been a nurse for four months, and after completing two months of orientation she takes a full assignment as a registered nurse. Josepha feels that the assignments she receives are not always fair, as she tends to get the most challenging clients. In addition, she is most frequently assigned any change of shift admissions.

And then, caregivers should keep a healthy body, to store enough energy to look after others. Only by doing these, can caregivers form a virtuous circle, which is beneficial for both patients and caregivers. Moreover, another problem about caregivers is lacking of professional knowledge, which is also pointed out by Eli Saslow. As Eli Saslow described in Ten Letters (2011), Connie is not a professional caregiver. Because lack of knowledge of carcinoma, Connie need to remember lots of things new and write down every detailed things like which doctor or nurse to contact when Natoma has a different situation.

These three problems are: lack of collaboration and teamwork, staff conflict, and lack of transparent performance appraisal procedures. All of these three broad problems need to be addressed simultaneously to ensure that the unit performs as Barbara expected. As we read in the case, there is a conflict between junior nurses, senior nurses, and PCA 's which lead to ineffective collaboration among them. Junior nurses feels like they don 't get positive feedback from senior nurses. However, senior nurses feel that many junior nurses and PCA 's are in competent and feel overwhelmed to support them.

As a registered nurse, I had admitted countless of patient in the hospital I work at. As part of our facility 's admission questioner, we nurses are required to ask our patient or their loved ones (or caregiver) if patient has any Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) or Provider Orders For Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). Furthermore, our facility has two different forms, AHCD (authored by our facility) and POLST (authored by Kokua Mau). In reviewing these two forms, it appears that the AHCD is more comprehensive that the POLST. The AHCD covers what is asked on the POLST with additional questioner on pain relief, patient able to appoint an alternate to the designated agent, able to appoint an alternate to the alternate designated agent, patient is able to limit the agents authority by allowing the patient specify the limitations, and allows the patient to donate his/her organs or body upon the patient 's death.

They explain most HIPAA violations are due to lack of employee awareness related to patients’ privacy procedures and a deficiency in communication from management regarding education on proper patient confidentiality processes. They advocate for regular staff trainings on HIPAA laws and instruction on specific privacy weaknesses that affect their organizations’ healthcare information systems. They also explain that healthcare information system privacy training should ensure employees are aware of their responsibilities when it comes to protecting their patients’ confidentiality. They emphasize management should regularly communicate about the importance of HIPAA compliancy to their staff members and make privacy training a top priority within their organizations (Mishra et al., 2014). Staff members’ awareness and agreement through consistent communication and training sessions concerning HIPAA regulations and updates will ensure healthcare centers are adequately protecting the privacy of their patients’ healthcare

PATIENT CARE EXPERIENCE AND PARTNERING IN CARE Name of Student Institution Affiliation   Patient care experience and Partnering in care Health care is continuously evolving with improvements in cures and medical equipments. Nevertheless, this does not transform into better health care delivery. To ensure proper and satisfactory services in the health care industry, it is important to focus on patient care experience and partner in care along with the families. We discuss this approach and its benefits, especially for the elderly like Mr. Taylor and how it helps them overcome the barriers they face for healthcare delivery. Patient care experience Patient care experience literally means caring for the patient and the patient’s experience