Millions of years have passed since the first human appeared on Earth, natural and artificial selections have been abolishing countless behaviors and conducts towards evolution. Yet, there is one crucial action which has been, and will keep on existing without losing its value however much time pass: Communication. Defined as the act of sharing and receiving information by speaking, writing,... communication is known as the key factor of human life. As a Nursing student whose aim is to lead a good life and have a successful career, I have learned how important effective communication is, especially in Clinical Attachment(CA), while envisioning some of the possible challenges I might face along with the resolutions to them.
To begin with, I understand that to communicate potently is to make the best out of CA. The
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Making the right questions and showing your eagerness to study is a part of good communication which makes people inclined towards explaining and assisting you with their wisdom. To be able to gain as much knowledge as possible, we have to learn from numerous sources, and one of the best approaches is to learn from others’ experience. Attempting that requires us to showcase our will in appropriate manners and the other party to approve of us, which relates to the point that I mentioned earlier about how good communication can help us in establishing relationships, hence make people more open to share and help us.
To sum up, I completely understand the value of communication in CA and have been preparing myself with the best I could so as to avoid and battle the potential hardships that I might encounter in the future.
As a result, I find that my communication skills are not seriously lacking and hopefully I will not have to encounter major hindrances in forthcoming CA. Nevertheless, I have foreseen a few problems that are likely to occur, together with ways to solve
Clinical Microsystem Throughout the daily health care facility, microsystem is continuously at play. At my time in the hospital I observed register nurses, CNAs, physical therapist, and dietician come together effectively to help assist the patients overall safety and health concerns of the patient needs. I spent the day shadowing a nurse and observed the element of the microsystem at work. During this time, I recorded my observations of the nurse throughout the day such as patient care, tasks, medications, charting, and other duties.
Nurse’s role has a unique contribution in the interprofessional team. The interprofessional team are group of individuals in a various healthcare disciplines communicating and working together towards common goals to provide quality, individualized care for patients. Each team members from different profession and occupation collaborates, supports, enhances, and provides knowledge, skills, and attitudes to coordinate processes and interventions. Nurse’s offers specialized service to society to meet the health care needs of their clients.
Outcome 5: Use Basic Communication and Collaborative Skills to Optimize Patient Outcomes Brenen Dapkiewicz NU 311 Fundamentals of Nursing Practicum Washburn University School of Nursing Knowledge Q1: Describe how you utilized several communication skills you were introduced to in class. During my long-term care experience last Friday, I was exposed to many forms of communication. There was non-verbal communication, where you could just see that a patient was maybe anxious or content.
Introduction Nursing is provision of professional care to individuals, families, and communities in order to make them attain, maintain or recover optimal health and resume the good quality of life. Other than the receiving professional training and possessing well-trained therapeutic skills, nurses should also have good ability of interpersonal communication, because during the process of therapy, large amount of communications are involved in it. Nurses and patients will experience an inter exchange of information between each other so as to reach their mutual goals. Hildegard E. Peplau raised the theory of interpersonal relations, the theory explains the phases of interpersonal process and nurses’ roles in different phases, encouraging
Communication is described as the interchange of information, thoughts, and feelings between individuals using dialog or other methods (Kourkouta, & Papathanasiou, 2014). Communication between patients, nurses, and other healthcare professionals can influence the patient outcome subsequently, understanding what establishes an effective communication will be beneficial for nurses and other healthcare professionals. Having the skills to articulate efficiently exists beyond having verbal skills. According to Wright (2012), to establish effective communication, a nurse should develop the use of nonverbal cues such as body language, demonstrating active listening skills to facilitate assurance that the interaction remains successful, and having
Introduction Communication is a very powerful thing and it is so powerful that humans and animals can interact with each other and communication is inevitable and it is either verbal or non-verbal and it can be effective or ineffective and it important that communication is effective or else you as an individual will not be able to build relationships and maintain them for a long time. The essay will talk about my strengths and limitations in a dyadic conversation between my friend and me. I will be focussing on myself in the conversation. The essay will also cover the communication concepts and basics. Strength (Effective Communication) There are two types of ways to communicate, effectively and ineffectively, the type of communication that will be discussed in the paragraph is effective communication.
Self-reflections on communication skills It is inescapable to have interpersonal conflict in any relationships and situations. (Solomon&Theiss, 2013) Yet, we should be able to handle conflicts with skills. Regarding the conflict I encountered, there are some communication skills I should have known and
Success in continuous communication on a daily basis between the teaching staff and the administrative body of the university or with the administration of nursing in Olympia, make the system work a serious and systematic and a model of success and pride. Actually, I can say after this research and after my interview, that providing the means of communication in this wonderful form is the secret of success. The Implication The moral effects of verbal and written communication in the CNA department at Hailine College are very important.
The purpose of this assignment, I will critically discuss and analyse the use of the ABC-E model, when assessing and engaging with a new client. The ABC-E model of emotion is known by a bio-psychosocial model of mental health care which enables a client to understand there autonomic, behavioural and cognitive symptoms in their environment to get a much deeper insight, into how the client may be feeling. Nursing assessments are a key component to mental health nursing care. It is a decision-making process based on the collection of information that gives an overall estimation of the consumer and their circumstances (Barker 2004).
Perception is vital to interpersonal communication, however, biases and distortions can often impact the accuracy of the interpreted message. Fritz Heider (as cited in Crisp, 2015) claims that “human behaviour is driven by the need to predict and control” (p.11), social information and interactions. This need for prediction and control manifests itself in perceptual distortions, inevitably leading to miscommunication and issues in a relationship, as it did in the issues I experienced between myself and my best friend. Discrepancies between primacy and recency, self-serving bias and selectivity played a significant role in the breakdown of my friendship, however a knowledge of the way these social conditions work may have allowed us to avoid
The two key topics in class in the last weeks, for me. Two of the most relevant topics developed in the last weeks were: non-verbal communication and the barriers to communication. Everytime we communicate with another person or group of people, we have to take into account some factors other than what we are actually saying that can affect how the message is going to be received: body language, tone, intonation, facial expressions, and others; this is what we understand for non-verbal communication. As we saw in class “55% of communication is body language, 38% is the tone of voice, and 7% is the actual words spoken.”
The following is a reflection paper adressing several key areas in this course I believe has helped me to devlep both personally and professonaly. Briefly describe the relationship between message and context, including cultural context. I believe there is definitetly a relationship between a message and its context. From what I have learned, is that a message is what we say or write.
In most lessons, I passively received the knowledge without questioning, as doing so might put me in hot seat, which I was not in favour of. Once in a blue moon, there were activities which required me to express, but they defeated the purpose as I regurgitated what I had received earlier without putting much thought into it. I was not willing to take the risk and put my opinion across, as doing so might have caused my grades to suffer. Looking back, I realise that I was focused more on the destination, not the journey. I was not motivated to learn, I was motivated to score better
In society today, communication classes are highly over looked because of our new developing technology. People don’t realize how much a communication class could benefit them. We have lost sight of verbal communication skills. This class has taught me to put my phone down and communicate with others. It has opened my eyes to the real world without technology.