Personal Communication Reflection

I have seen the nursing process being used within my practice. The society that I go to for my clinical evaluations and regular charting for every resident in the house. They identity daily, short-term, and long-term goals. Every resident has a chart that the need to fill out, by doing this it allows the residents have some accountability on their part of the goals. In addition, the nurses also observe that the residents progress, these observations are done throughout the day and charted daily. Being in the practice setting for a few weeks now, I’ve had the opportunity to use nursing processes with a few residents. I worked with a resident to help them understand and communicate with the staff members about how this resident was feeling. I worked with this resident to prepare and brainstorm ways that they could approach and deal with the issue. Helping them understand that feeling

My personal communication philosophy includes two factors that will support improved comprehension among those attempting to connect. The following paper will discuss these two elements: merging communication styles to aid in understanding and communication intent vs. perception.

Throughout this semester reading about different ways of interpersonal communication I came to the realization that there were many things I could work on to better myself as a person. Things I never thought about in depth until taking this class. Areas I have improved on throughout this semester are using I language more than the use of you language, what empathy was and how I choose to become better and lastly how I deal with conflict.

The first morning of nursing care I felt nervous, as well as extremely excited. This was my first true interaction working in the health care system, specifically with a resident and I wasn’t sure what to expect. The first aspect I noticed when I began my day with my staff buddy was how fast paced we moved and how time flew, which is something I expected but was still surprized by.

Since the start of this class, I have been reminded again and again that the concepts we are learning can be applied to everyday life. For instance, when we talked about non-verbal communication, I realized that it is impossible to not communicate. There are many activities, other than the use of language, that allow us to draw meaning from something we observe. When my mother widens her eyes at me without stating a word, I understand she is telling me to think twice about the action I’m about to take. It has been great to be able to assign concepts and vocabulary to interpersonal relationships and communication activity that I have been experiencing. Now let me introduce you to my friend Izzy and her boyfriend Ken as I analyze the

Communication is something that all beings use, whether it be animals or humans. It is “the process by which we use signs, symbols, and behaviors to exchange information and create meaning” (Floyd, 2011). Communication styles vary by different people, but it can be summed up the way we interact with others and how one is perceived and how we perceive ourselves. Communication apprehension is the level of fear that a person has of speaking. To test this, the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension was used to measure my level of apprehension. Throughout this assessment, I will self-reflect on my strengths and areas I can use improvement on.

Describe the steps you took to get to your finished communication product, and explain how these steps were helpful.

Our ability to communicate well with others is important to personal and professional success. The interpersonal communications course is planned to help us in being familiar with the system of effective, and to assess our own interpersonal ability to sharpen our critical understanding of the communication, also to improve the interpersonal skills. Mainly assess our interpersonal skills and to put in goals for improving our communications ability. To development of self-concept and identity are examined as basics for understanding personal communication. We explore our own communication behaviors and to identify areas of personal strengths and

Throughout this semester in communications I have learned a lot about myself, how to deal with others, relationships, and more. There were some lessons that stood out to me the most, and that I thought about after class. The first was in chapter 3 about interpersonal communication and the self. During this chapter, we took a piece of paper and put four people that we knew down. We chose someone who we were just getting to know, and then others that we knew very well or that were very close to us. In this lesson, we were discussing the social penetration theory. The first step is the breadth which is a volunteered amount of information that we tell someone as subjects are being discussed. The second step is depth which is when we began to go deeper into personal information. The four people that I chose were a girl I had just met at work, my sister, my dad, and my boyfriend. After completing the circles and filling in the amount of information that I have covered with them, the girl I work with had the least, and my sister had the most filled in to the core. After completing this lesson, I looked at my paper and realized that almost everyone was more filled in to the core than my relationship with my father. This lesson struck a major cord with me because I never realized how surface level my relationship with my dad was until talking about this lesson. I knew that my father and I were not that close to begin with, but I never knew why. After this lesson, I understood that my

1. I overheard a conversation between a couple, a boy and a girl who I assume are both freshmen. They had gone to highschool together and both came to Syracuse University, they’ve been together for about 2 years - I know this because I was with my friend while this was happening and she peripherally knew the girl in the relationship. In their conversation, the girlfriend complained about how they never see each other anymore, it’s even less than they saw each other in high school even though now they don’t have limitations like curfews and strict school/extracurricular activities to work around. He answered by saying he is very busy with classes and new clubs and it’s hard to find time to spend together. She retorted with the fact that he’s managed to find plenty of time to spend with his new friends, and that their bond should be a stress reliever, not adding more stress to their workloads and the new college environment. I believe that they were really talking about how college has already changed both of them - she clearly wants to continue the relationship and hold on to what they had in high school, whereas he is taking on this whole new world and discovering that there is a life outside of the confines of his hometown. I think that he wants to break up with her, and that’s why he’s only making excuses and defending himself, rather than working to find a solution to the problem. He’s just allowing the distance between him and his girlfriend to run its course until they

I really enjoyed the reading for this class, the book was full of great insight into how we ourselves communicate with others. The chapter that had the greatest influence on me was chapter two. In chapter two, we discussed social media, a mediated communication that many use today. I have always had a problem communicating with social media. I found it impossible to comment or respond to posts, feeling they were insignificant compared to face to face communications. Now I see that it is just a different way to talk with friends and family. As long as I remember that some may just speak their mind using disinhibition and others use idle conversations, all people are there to be involved with others, regardless of interaction types. For many people this is the only connection they have with friends and family, perhaps living far away from others or not owning a phone. With this new type of relational communication, I can talk with others about idle subjects or have in-depth discussions about life and the world around us. I am thankful I was part of this class and had an opportunity to read Looking Out, Looking In by Ronald B. Adler and Russell F. Proctor. This book had many insights into mine and others behaviors and what they could possibly mean. I am able to evaluate my own feelings and communications as well as my relationships. I can listen better and express my thoughts thanks to COM110 and I will recommend that everyone I know should either take this class or at least

According to the Thomas-Kilmann quiz in our iBook I scored highest in the following areas: compromising, collaboration, and accommodations. Whereas my lowest, and nearly nonexistent areas are competing and avoiding. As a speech/theatre major, the topic of conflict resolution isn’t new to me. I’ve done many reflection papers just like this one and have taken many similar quizzes. For the most part I would agree with the results they’re very similar to most of the quizzes like these I have taken, including this one. In life I believe everything is about wearing different hats. Depending on the company and setting depends on the hat you wear. For instance, how you act around your friends and how you act at work isn’t the same. At work, you wear your professional hat, or at least I would hope so. Same goes for conflict resolution.

This course has been a journey of self-discovery. Through weekly reflection I have learned several things that I am glad that I now know about interpersonal communication.

Communication is the means by which we convey actions or ideas with another individual. It can occur in many modes including the verbal method of speech and the nonverbal method of writing. Regardless of the mode one uses to communicate the key thing is that communication is done between individuals; it is not a self-action. Interpersonal communication cannot be simply or precisely defined, but in general it is communication that involves a specific type of interaction with certain individuals. It is not limited in the amount of individuals having the conversation. For example, interpersonal communication can occur with a mother and her three children or it can be with a Professor and her student. However, the interaction is not technically intimate, it just involves two individuals directly and personally.

During, communication class I got the chance to discover different concept, tactics, strategies, and techniques and how I can improve the way a communication with others and be able to listen, focus, paraphrase, also able to express myself without offending others or causing tense or insecure conversations. Then, I also discovered how I can making eye contact, assertiveness, self- disclosure also able to understand body language, which it can assist me to observe the reaction of the others that would help me to avoid any confrontations during dialogue. Many of these concepts that were providing to me offer a better way and how I can change any of bad habits I was having every time I was having a conversation since I wasn’t aware before I took this course.