Professional Presence and Influence

Healthcare, and Medicine is advancing more and more each day. As healthcare workers, our understanding of health and healing has improved and changed in the way we care for our patients. Dossey believed in the three eras of medicine. Era 1 began in the 1800s and its focus was solely on the body. The belief that healing and overall health are totally physical. The therapies and treatment were either medications or surgical procedures. The thought that healing all humans based on bodily functions, and how they can be treated will change as time changes. Era 2 began in the 1950s and it focused on the mind and body. Health care providers realized that

When you meet someone for the first time every detail is being noticed; from your entrance, wardrobe, handshake, etiquette, and voice quality and speech (Center for Professional Communication, 2014). First impressions are lasting ones and the first step in building long lasting relationships. A person must be aware of their presence and understand themselves to have a confident professional presence.

Dr. Gabor Maté is a well- known author and physician in Vancouver and writes mainly about the human body, life experiences, and illnesses. Understanding the emotional and physical connection is extremely important to our well-being. In his talk, Dr. Gabor Maté discusses the cause of hidden stress and how mental illness can direct or indirectly cause physical illness. There is a connection between stress and mind that cannot be separated, what you carry around you in your mind affects your mind and physical health entirely. Emotional stress can cause illnesses such as heart disease, dementia, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, cancer, etc. Repressed anger and emotion in general, can lead to onset

• “Guardians are concerned citizens who trust authority, join groups, seek security, prize gratitude, and dream of meting out justice”

What does it mean to be human, and how do we as nurses provide care to our patients? According to Jean Watson “The future of nursing is tied back to Nightingales sense of calling guided by a sense of commitment and covenantal ethic of human service; cherishing our phenomena, our subject matter and those we serve. It is when we include caring and love in our work and our life we discover and affirm that nursing, like teaching is more than just a job but a life giving and life receiving career for a lifetime of growth and learning” (Watson, J. 1978). There have been many different

The individual's mind may affect not just his or her body, but the body of another person at a distance, even when that distant individual is unaware of the effort. (http://www.dosseydossey.com/larry/QnA.html).

1. Era I – “Mechanical Medicine” began in the 1860’s. Its focus is on surgical procedures and drugs. The thought was that health and illness are only physical in nature and consciousness is equated to functioning of the brain. Era I thinking in displayed in review of psychiatric care in the early 1900 with the use of frontal lobotomies to cure hysteria. The thought was that performing a surgical procedure on the brain will remove the area that is causing the Hysteria. Era I focuses on performing a procedure or providing a medication to fix the body physically, while Era III takes into account the patients perception of health, their stats of mind and their support

Professional presence is something of a nebulous concept. Before this course, I honestly never considered what it was and how my nursing practice was defined by it. During my journey through this course I discovered what it truly meant. “Presence is an intersubjective encounter between a nurse and a patient in which the nurse encounters the patient as a unique human being in a unique situation and chooses to spend her/himself on the patient’s behalf’’ (Wingate, 2007). Presence defines how a person interacts with those around them, and particularly in the healthcare field, it’s incredibly important.

Hospice care is a model of care that focuses on relieving symptoms and supporting patients with a life expectancy of six months or less (Altshuler, 2013). For most nurses, caring for a dying elder (individual aged 65 years and above) is a discrete, time-limited experience that begins with first contact, often in a hospital, emergency room, or long term care facility, and ends with the death itself (Phillips & Reed, 2008).

Society has progressed both socially and technologically as has medicine. This includes our understanding of health and healing as evidenced by Dossey’s three eras of medicine. Era 1, beginning in the 1800’s, reflected the prevailing view that health and illness are totally physical in nature and therapies included surgical procedures and drugs. Era 2, starting in the 1950’s, related to the mind and body. Practitioners began to realize that emotions and feelings can impact health. Era 3, still developing today, began in the 1990’s and builds on the previous eras by adding the spirit and proposes that consciousness is not confined to one’s

Within this section, the responses from the four questionnaires returned will be shared and discussed. This is a small sample and all are based within one establishment so it is important to remember that the findings may only be applicable to this establishment and are not intended to be a generalisation or evidence about the development of professional identity in all schools.

Professionalism in the workplace, is the absolute key to having a successful, and smoothly run business. Professionalism is something that must be maintained by every individual within the work setting, especially in health care, whether it is the janitor, activity director, nursing assistant, doctor, or even the head administrator. Professionalism encompasses many aspects, such as teamwork, attitude, environment, knowledge, morals, and ethics.

The hypothesis that emotional conflicts related to external events can precipitate mental illnesses was first formally suggested by Heinroth in 1818 in his designation of the term 'psychosomatic '. Later in early part of the 20th century, Adolf Meyer, popularized the 'life chart ' methodology. This approach emphasized the importance of dynamic interplay among biological, psychological and social factors such that important life events within the person 's biography became foci of attention for studying health and disease. However, no formal scale or schedule for assessing life events or their impact on health was as yet available. In the early 1960s, Rahe and Holmes began developing a life events schedule based upon findings over 5,000 of Meyer 's "life charts" taken on patients at the University of Washington. Each item selected for their schedule of Recent Experience was included because it was found to have occurred in a large number of patients preceding the onset of their illness. Holmes and Rahe (1967) also developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Dignity and Worth of the person is to respect the dignity and worth of the person in a respectful, caring and mindful of the individual different cultural and ethnic diversity. Importance of Human relationship is to recognize the central importance of human relationship, to promote, restore maintain and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations and communities. A social worker should avoid any negative criticism in communications with a client or their colleagues.

There are three important elements that may influence our professional life which are social sustainability, culture differences and business ethics. Social sustainability is closely related to our daily life as well as our future social development. Culture can influence people’s behaviour and believes and there are many different culture surrounding us. As business ethics, it is an important guideline of a business’s activities. In this paper, I will handle three different reflective pieces which are why a business ought to be concerned about social sustainability, how the lack of cultural understanding might impede my professional career and the relevance of ethics in my professional life.