Psychiatric Clinical Communication

In this self assessment assignment based on clinical indicator, I will focus on therapeutic communication, nursing process/charting, and time management.

This class was very challenging, interesting, and informative. First, students must push themselves to expand their knowledge and help themselves become more inquisitive, critical, reflective, and problem solve. As future professional nurse practitioner, we are striving for integrating clinical judgment skills. The knowledge gained in the textbook must be applied in the clinical settings without discrimination.

The ambition to study for a degree in Mental Health Nursing has developed from my teenage years, as well as my experience of working in the health care profession. For approximately four years, I have worked in a Forensic Mental Hospital for individuals with criminal convictions who are too mentally unwell to be in prison. My time in my current work place has given me distinct insight into the variety of mental health problems individuals can suffer from, and has become one of the main inspirations behind my career choice. This experience has given me a deep understanding of the challenges mental health nurse's face, but also a great awareness of the satisfaction and achievement to be found in being able to help patients live a more normal life, to achieve some stability in their daily existence and to maintain their dignity as human beings. I am aware that in the mental health degree course there is a lot of clinical practice, which I feel I have gained experience for during my employment. The variety in the job is very appealing to me, and the prospect of developing more skills to help those who are seriously troubled is very rewarding.

Thank you for the opportunity to apply to work as a research assistant at The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Please accept this humble letter and accompanying application as an indication of my interest in applying to work as a research assistance-Psychiatry.

Theorist Hildegard Peplau set the foundational elements for newly graduated students to introduce the importance of patient/nurse relationships into their practice (Peplau 1991). Peplau’s book is mainly directed toward psychiatric patients, but improving interpersonal skills with patients from all disciplines will create a caring, informative environments for individualized care plans (D’Antionio, Beeber, Sills, & Naegle, 2014). Also,

When I began this course I was very nervous because I had no idea of the scope of the course. I was unfamiliar with the Canadian education system and other students. After receiving instructions from my professor, I introduced myself to the person beside me and this process helped to break the ice. I developed a good friendship with the student and this technique used by the professor helped me develop better communication and relationship skills. After few classes, I felt very comfortable and the nervousness and anxiety faded away. I learned about leadership, power relationships in the profession, personal, cultural, professional and organizational, each of which is very important in the nurse’s career. I also gained knowledge regarding client centred care.

Therapeutic communication is considered the heart of family nursing practice (Deane, & Fain, 2016). Knowing the different types of communication is vital for nurses, as it delivers an effective relationship between nurse-client affiliation. Effective therapeutic communication is the main key to success.

It is very important to be able to recognise what a person’s body language is saying, especially when as a health or social care worker you are dealing with someone who is in pain, worried or upset.

Professional Communication is a very important element in the foundation for a strong health care system. Communication can also serve as a basis for basic health care administered. Communication is not only the one tool in health care in which we can control, but also what helps prevent the derailment in patient-healthcare professional trust.. Types of model that can help express how important professional communication is within health care is the movie titled, The Doctor. There are various examples in this movie in which the importance of professional communication is portrayed and supports the argument, as well. These types of examples and supporting data can also be found in real life testimonies of what type of situations can result from lack of professional communication in the health care setting. Communication teaches the importance in human-to-human contact that some hospitals and health care setting may lack due to the certain personality type that is more attracted to the roles of doctors. Professional communication should remain at the forefront of bed side manner and proper etiquette in the health care field and setting.

The information for both groups was relatively similar in many aspects. 15 participants in the experiment section (62.5%) and 15 from the control group (65.2%) had another academic skill in addition to their nursing license. 19 participants (40.4%) overall said they had no additional skills. Analysis was directed using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) where significance was set at P=0.05. ANOVA repeated measures analysis was used to examine both variables. ANOVA showed high substantial effects in therapeutic attitude scores for group (F=30.42; d.f. =1, p<0.001). Also post-hoc testing displayed the pre-training score was different from the post-training score (P=0.001; 95% CI 5.53, 25.38). However post-training and follow up scores were not that much different (p=0.358; 95% CI-4.71,

People deal with a lot of things in their life whether it is professional or personal. I had an incident in my life that was a professional matter; in the pass when I was working at a caregiving facilities. I had to learn how to deal with mental patients and also the workers. When dealing with the mental patients I had to learn their behavior. I had to figure out how they work with other and what triggered there behaviors. Some of my patients that you didn’t have to do anything with; besides make sure they care for their self properly and reminded them to do thing here and there. I also had some that I had to do hands on and go step by step on the things that they needed to do. A lot of times with patient that you had to remind to do something

Woten (2016) attributes, National Patient Safety Goals (The Joint Commission, 2016): Medication Reconciliation – an Overview acknowledges effective communication is a driven force to accurate medication reconciling. Communication to patients, families, professional to professional provides honesty along with direction in role responsibilities. Poor communication was recognized from a study at Mayo Health system, reporting, “medical information at transition points was responsible for as many as 50% of all medication errors in the hospital and up to 20% of ADEs”(Vogenberg & DiLascia, 2013). The evidence in transitions throughout care directly connects to communication validating how medication lists, if not updated or accurate cause harm to

However, if adequate the evaluation of the clinical experience can be seen as a powerful assessment tool in relation to the knowledge gained by the student nurse. This will be an ongoing survey of the student’s abilities during the course.

Today actually turned out to be a pretty decent day. I picked to be on the adult unit. I was extremely nervous to say the least. It turned out to not be as bad as I had expected. The unit I migrated to was unit A. They house the patients who are in detox and those who suffer from depression. Unit B house patients with illnesses such as schizophrenia. After lunch they merged the two units into one because unit A only had 5 patients. The staff who work with unit A told said they didn’t think it was a good idea to let the two groups mix. One staff member I worked with said that the last time it happened it did not turn out great. She also told me that once their census go back us and they are released to go back to their separate unit that it is extremely difficult to get the patients back calm.

I am glad that your husband was able to settle the problem with his boss. It is awesome that he’ll have a pay increase as well. I had a problem with my pay also two months ago. My shift differential was not paid out. I went to my boss and work through the proper channels and asked help to the people might be able to help me. Thankfully the problem was solved, and they issued me a check right away. It is great how things work out with good communication.