Assertive Communication In Nursing

Reflecting on learning the importance of nursing documentation/record keeping and written communication. I recognise it’s one of many skill sets imperative to communicating with others, and needed to be effective in my field. Gaps in communication can be risky to patient’s continuity of care, and can lead to detrimental errors such as incorrect medication dosage or treatments, impinging on their safety. Further breaching the (NMC, 2015, C: 13-16), where it is a requirement to protect the public and patients. Poor record keeping would affect my competence, duty of candour and my ability to raise concerns. Further putting patient’s safety at risk. Therefore it is crucial to for records to contain

The nurse supposed to be aware of time consuming techniques and avoid those in emergency cases. For example, techniques that takes a long time, such sitting next to the patient and listening to the patient’s concerns must be avoided in emergency situations, instead the nurse can make eye contact with the patient and reassure him or her that everything will be done for the patient. Therapeutic communication must be used for all patients regardless of their ethnicity, race, age, sex, and religion. All nurses must apply these techniques in practice for all their patients in the same manner. Mostly all therapeutic techniques are under nursing scope of practice due to the reason that they are done psychologically and there is no specific use of medications, physical tasks, or decision making involved. Therefore, all nurses can apply these techniques freely since they are all under the scope of practice. Nurses must be aware of external and internal regulations while using therapeutic communication techniques. Sometimes, the techniques take time to be done and nurses must make sure they will do all other tasks that the organization assigned to them on-time. Potential breakdowns in these areas can be the low amount of time to apply the techniques at bed-side or in emergency situation. Nurses have multiple patients and multiple tasks to perform at all times and applying

This essay will highlight one of the key concepts of nursing .The concept that will be discussed in this essay will be communication, the reason for this chosen concept is that communication plays a vital role in everyday occurrences which defines how a situation is perceived by yourself, others and how communication is effectively handled . There will be a definition on what communication is also an evaluation of the chosen concept will be explored throughout this essay.

Good communication skills improved the quality of care provided to patients. Nurses must have the ability to communicate clearly to patients and the healthcare team to avoid medical errors. Responsible nursing is not simply the ability to successfully carry out a series of routine procedures like dressing a wound, or administering medication; instead nurses must be able to communicate clearly to the entire health care team. For example, in the open-heart operation room, a patient was bleeding from the chest tube exit site. The normal protocol is to give blood products and wait in the OR for a few hours to make sure the bleeding has stopped, before bringing the patient into the PACU recovery room. The patient was given blood products, as a result the bleeding presumed to be

The Nurse in Scenario one made it clear to the patient that she was busy and had other patients to tend to. Effective communication is not demonstrated here because the Nurse has not respected or placed herself at the service of the client (NMBA, 2008). As observed in the video the Nurse speaks quickly and interrupts the patient.

Since a good communicator is well informed, I believe that having collected all the necessary information, he will be able to use his knowledge to evaluate and analyze to come up with the best diagnosis. Analyzing the information will be helpful to the nurse for he will easily help the patient.  He is able to comprehend all that he has gained during his listening phase and thus come up with the sense the information gathered makes. This way, the patient will feel at ease knowing that he or she has somebody who can attend to his or her health needs (Nursing Times. Net, 2011).  There is the conclusion phase, which the nurse has to use her good communication skills to know what need to be added in the already given information. By creating conducive environment for the patient, the latter will feel at ease and this way, he will able to pass across all the essential information. In this case, the conclusion stage will most of the times lack anything for addition. The last stage will be the action plan. In this stage, the nurse will use her knowledge, both acquired and learn, to come up with a beneficial action plan to the patient. This will enable the patient build trust in the nurse.Communication is therefore very necessary in any form of profession and therefore nurses should use the best form of communication to avoid threatening the patients.

As stated by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA, 2014), when using social media, health practitioners should be aware that National codes of ethics and professional conduct apply. The British journal of Nursing (Farrelly, 2014) articulates that as a student nurse and future health professional, I have a responsibility to understand social media and confidentiality in the health care context. To become a successful nurse I will need to build trusting relationships with my patients, which will involve them being confident that their personal information will be protected by myself as a nurse. To achieve this it is essential that I adjust the ways I use social media and become more cautious of what I am posting online. For example, as a student and future RN, it is crucial that I do not discuss patients or post pictures, case studies or sensitive material which may enable patients to be identified. The misuse of social media may also have a negative effect on team-based patient care, for example if it is used as a tool to “cyber bully”

Communication is the foundation of exchanging information from one person to another, whether it is in the form of written, spoken or by body language, communicating is vital to everyone. Therefore, effective communication is imperative within the healthcare, for it is through communication relationships, information and understanding are obtained. The purpose of this paper is to read the critical thinking exercise with Nurse Oliver Witte and describe the problems that are presented, whose problems it is? What should Olivia do about it? In addition, I will discuss what mode of communication Olivia is using and in what order should she communicate with first, along with who else needs to be involved with this her communication. Lastly, what type of leadership and management strategies should Olivia use?

D-The patient was placed on HOLD and this writer cleared the HOLD. This writer addressed with the patient about her recent AWOL, referring to yesterday. According to the patient, she missed her medcab and did not have any other form of transportation. The patient was in tears as she also reported that she used crack cocaine (smoking) from 8/1/2016-08/4/2016. When asked as to how much she used, she says, " I spent $300 worth......I was doing so good, so good. I didn't want to use. It's too much." This writer asked the patient to what happen recently because during the last individual counseling session, the patient was clean from illicit drugs for a week and 3 days. According to the patient, her son had turned against and lied to her sister

Mr. Comer was admitted to his local community hospital for respite care. He has suffered multiple, acute strokes in the past, which has left him with severe disabilities. These include paralysis rendering him immobile, aphasia (speech loss) and dysphagia (swallowing difficulties). He relies on carers for all normal activities required for daily living (Roper et al 1996) and is advised to have a pureed diet and thickened fluids.

The nurse has poor Paraphrasing and understanding when talking to the patient which is effective verbal communication. The nurse should first

My patient, C.R., came into the hospital due to chronic renal failure (CRF). He was scheduled to have his second round of dialysis done on the intensive care unit (ICU). Dialysis nurse was present in the room, setting up the machine for continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and noticed that the patient went into symptomatic supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Being thrown into SVT causes the heart rate to speed up over 150 and can cause the patient to have pain in their chest, feeling lightheaded and fatigued, and have shortness of breath. At the same time, C.R.’s nurse walked into the room and the patient’s rhythm converted into ventricular tachycardia (VT). At the time the patient converted to VT, he became

As a nurse I use more pretense in my style of communication. Most of the time I find myself with multiple agendas on my plate. A patient would ask something of me and as soon as I step out of the room something else comes up. With patients I don’t want to make promises that cannot be kept, because many of the time there are so many variables that comes into play. Every case is individualized to meet the needs of the patient.

In the health field knowing how to communicate clearly is critical. In this essay I will be discussing the different struggles an administrator will have to solve through effective communication. Social media such Facebook and Twitter will either benefit or harm this process because a company has decided to buy out the nursing home. They are going to be putting verbally challenged resident out on the street. Hopefully by spreading the word across the network people will lend a hand and join the fight. So now it is time to take action and open up new avenues for the nursing home.

This will allow the team members to feel appreciated which will due conducive for establishing each person’s value. Secondly, there needs to be better communication among the team. The arguments are a clear indication that communication issues exists. According to Rentsch, Delise, Mello, and Stniewicz (2014), there is a need to have productive communication using problem solving strategies to ensure resolution. The FNP should use professional outside resources to establish an effective outcome. In the office, the staff is calling off presents problems for attending to the patients. This creates a safety issues for the patient as appropriate staffing is needed to function optimally. According to Mensik and Nickitas (2015), there needs to be excellence in nursing staffing, nurse support, and scheduling which is the foundation to perform at optimum levels. With these considerations, the office circumstances will improve for the benefit of