Personal Narrative-Verbal Communication In Nursing

Day two clinicals. This day went so much smoother. I had the same two patient as the day before and one got discharged and I got a new patient. I feel like my second day I had an amazing relationship with my one patient. I got her to eat a little more that day because I knew what to talk to her about.

Case study of Mrs. A thought her admission to a acute ward, demonstrated the skills that are needed to care for her. 21312829 This assignment is a case study looking at a patient who has been admitted to an acute hospital following a fall. It will look at why the patient has been admitted and what skills are needed to deliver appropriate care.

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.

Nursing practice requires both critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Critical thinking is the process of deliberate higher level thinking to define a patient’s problem, examine the evidence-based practice in caring for the patient’s, and make options in the delivery of optimal care. Critical thinking involves the demarcation of statements of fact, judgment, and opinion. The progression of critical thinking requires the nurse to think imaginatively, use reflection, and engage in logical thinking (Alfaro-LeFevre, 2013). Critical thinking is a vital skill needed for the recognition of patient’s problems and the execution of interventions to endorse effectual care outcomes (Bittencourt & Crossetti, 2012).

I witnessed verbal communication between nurses, certified nurse's assistants, bath assistants, and even student nurses. However, the best example I can give about communication and how I utilized communication was during my first insulin injection. First, us students verified with the nurse as well as our clinical instructor on how the procedure was performed using verbal communication. Next, we used written

This year, I experienced both a personal and academic obstacle that correlate with one another. In January, I started the year long Medical Assisting program at my school. Prior to beginning this program, I was so excited to be getting a medically centered education, and learning about the field I wanted to expand my career in. After entering the program and learning that there is so much more to medicine than just taking care of patients, I began to lose my interest. This was shocking to me since, my whole life up until this year, I believed I was going to become an amazing medical doctor.

4). The clinical reasoning cycle assists nursing students in identifying important issues for an individual patient and allows the student to look at the situation from a holistic point of view (Meissner 2011, p. 88). This process of critically analysing and using the memory enables the student to develop experience and a deeper understanding of nursing

What does it take to be a registered nurse? What are the qualities you need to become a nurse? The nursing profession is as much about kindness and caring for the whole person as it is about medical and technical knowledge. When considering a career as a registered nurse the qualifications can appear to be never-ending, however, with dedication, determination, and support, these qualifications are easily met. But it is the numerous traits and skills that enable a person to become a successful registered nurse.

The key to establishing a trusting relationship is the integration, usage, and mastery of therapeutic communication skills (Belcher & Jones, 2009).Due to the high importance of effective communication in mental health nursing, it is essential in therapeutic interventions. (Peplau, 1952) states that effective interpersonal skills are central to a mental health nurse’s ability to form a sound therapeutic alliance and to the role of mental health nurses. Excellent interpersonal aptitudes are what every mental health nurse needs to communicate effectively with clients. Active listening is more than just hearing what the client has to say, nurse must be actively engaging with the client, physically, emotionally and mentally. Effective listening is therefore a cognitive, behavioural and an affective process (Arnold and Underman Boggs,

As a nursing student, I have a grasp on what nursing is through textbooks and lectures. The more I learn about this profession, the more I learn about what my philosophy is. Although I haven’t gained clinical experience as a nurse, I have gained some clinical experience as a nurse assistant that helps me administer patient care while acquiring knowledge working under the supervision of nurses. This experience helps me to become knowledgeable on what their roles and responsibilities are, and it has inspired me that I hope when I graduate, to equal their skill, diligence and passion.

Therapeutic communication is an interaction between a nurse/ healthcare worker and a patient that helps advance the physical and emotional health of the patient by using verbal and nonverbal communication. Therapeutic communication is an active process. This communication is an important part of building a healthy interpersonal relationship, explains "Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing" .Nurses, mental health professionals and other health care professionals use therapeutic communication to educate the patient or to elicit information for analysis. The nurse uses various strategies to help the patient express their ideas and feelings in a manner that establishes respect and acceptance. This, in turn, enhances the patient 's comfort levels, encourages a feeling of safety, and increases their trust in the nurse.

I walked into Hy-Vee around three in the afternoon on February 14th with my shoes on my hands. I picked two actions to disobey social norms. I picked to wear my shoes on my hands through the store and also to stand close to strangers at the store. This assignment was hard for me to do because it is not normal and it is considered deviant. I am not the person to walk around a store wearing shoes on my hand and standing close to strangers, because I do not like people thinking wrong things about me.

Thus, critical thinking is something that is self-regulatory and purposeful judgment, a reflective, reasoning an interactive method for making judgment regarding what to do or believe in. from nursing perspective, critical thinking is the cognitive engine which drives the critical judgment and knowledge development in nursing (Meunier, 2003). The experimental model for reflective decision making is mainly grounded and matched from holistic clinical contexts and holistic patient centered care where it is delivered. This needs nurses to apply wide range of practical, observational, emotional and interpersonal skills, that is not restricted to scientific research and theory whereas applicable to patient care. Such holistic observation of reflective decision making is often supported from multiple intelligence theory (Gardner, 1987), that mainly identified spatial-visual, linguistic, logical-mathematical, intrapersonal and interpersonal forms, bodily-kinesthetic and musical-auditory intelligence forms completing wide range of skills.

I am glad to hear that Dr. Grant Ferguson has referred me to your office, and upon reading Congressman Romero’s history, I believe that working together would be a great partnership. My internship background includes working for United States Congresswoman Kay Granger. At her office, I learned many office skills such as printing and copying, opening and sorting mail, and other general administrative skills. I also became much more familiar utilizing Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel. My main responsibility was documenting, in detail, constituents concerns and comments, and adding it to an aggregate data system.

I feel I have trouble efficiently expressing how a truly feel about certain situations and would rather not say anything. I tend to have moments where I have said too much, and wish I could take my words back. For a long time, I used to think everyone had good intentions, which I have slowly learned that’s is not always the case. I like to think I am flexible communicator with all ages, but I would like to get better at interpersonal communications with children and special needs. I try to keep it limited what I say with these groups, because I do not know what to say.