Psychosocial Factors Affecting the Patient and Health Care Professional

The video presented the ethics and boundaries and factors that affect those boundaries such as addiction, abuse, absent role models, and patients assuming the professional shares the same feelings as he or she does. Then the video discusses issues the doctor may incur such as “special treatment” of patients, time management, poor awareness of feelings, and the response to the patient.

Teaching hospitals are meant to train future professionals while ensuring that they provide the uppermost care for their patients. However, what some teaching hospitals fail to maintain is a strong and positive doctor-patient relationship. You would think that television shows and films

I believe the best way to take care of patients is through education. Through education, patients gain a better idea of their circumstance and have the ability to take control over their health. Using sincerity, professionalism, humor, and approachability, educating a patient can be done in an effect manner. I have seen these qualities in action during my observations, and I believe that I possess these traits and have the ability to further develop them. Through these attributes, I hope that I can become a humble and well-respected occupational

Psychology has taught me that individuals process information differently depending on their mental and social circumstances which will allow me to act as a supportive role in the patients time in care because I am able to understand their needs and anxieties. It has highlighted the importance of feelings, such as anxiety and fear. The layers of an individual must be carefully handled with when dealing with their ….

I intend to bring about this change through the implementation of the Joanna Briggs Institute model of healthcare approach. This cyclical process considers global healthcare needs, which are identified by both clinicians and patients. The areas of need are addressed through research evidence that is effective, appropriate, obtainable, and impactful to specific populations and settings. I intend for clinician and patient needs to be collected and evaluated through workshops, real life simulations, and individualized educational sessions with requested and/or needed employees. According to Gjeraa, Moller, & Ostergaard (2014), teams had conclusive reactions to simulation-based training, their knowledge and skills improved, team performance improved, the ability to transfer learning to a clinical setting increased, and significant improvements in task completion and in task performance times were shown to increase (p. 784). As an educator, evaluation of educational opportunities for staff is needed in order to assess its effectiveness. Working in the unit of which I intend to educate one day, I feel like my personal perspective and experiences will have a strong and impactful influence on the future educational opportunities I bring to my fellow clinicians. I am aware of the current educational opportunities that are available, and am as well aware of the areas fellow clinicians, myself included, can improve. The strong ties I presently have with clinical peers can be an avenue in which open lines of communication can flow, where personal desire for improvement can be addressed without fear of judgment or

This past’s week’s articles and video’s has shown me the differences between two models of care one being the biomedical model versus the biopsychosocial model (Soupis, 2016). Both of these models have value however, distinctively different in their theoretical frameworks of how they deliver patient care within the underlying roles that exist in the patient physician relationship. As I watched all the video presentations; after having read all the articles already being moved by the writings of Dr. Rita Charon, her video further demonstrated what type of impact a physician can have on their patients when delivering this type of care “as she aptly named narrative medicine”(Charon,2009, p.119). This week’s lesson on narrative medicine struck a nerve into the depth of my inner being, totally awed me, this developing field rather evolving branch of medicine.

When people are faced with complex circumstances in their daily lives, such as emotional or psychological people rely on their doctors to find a solution. It is no surprise when a doctor is called when a problem on someone’s heath emerges because it has always been that way for hundreds of years. If a person does not know what is going on with their minds they call the doctor for assistants. However, what if a doctors does not aid a person when it comes for their heath? What majority of society does not know is that a psychiatrist at times could do more harm than help a patient situation. Psychiatrist often are challenged in their field with misdiagnosing patients resulting in having them deal with a mental illness they do not have. The

Healthcare professional should maintain professional when providing support to patients. Sickness and disease increase individuals’ spiritual needs. Patients are faced with many questions when they are sick. Questions such as these, "Why me?" "What did do?" "Why now?" and "What will happen to my family if I die?" All these and other questions go inside the mind of patients and add to their increased anxiety and fear. Most of these issues are not in the list of physical and medical assessment by the healthcare team. A troubled mind causes harm that can manifest in various spiritual problems and can affect physical healing. An increase mental stress leads to increased blood pressure, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, doubt, guilt, and fear. If spiritual problems are not addressed, then it would jeopardize healing and recovery for both physical and mental conditions. No one can predict how spirituality is related to health, though it seems that the body mind and spirit are all connected. When suffers, the other suffers. Research has shown that there is a connection between beliefs and sense of wellbeing. Positive views, comfort, and strengths received from religion, prayers, and meditations assist to the welfare of an individual and may promote

Self-awareness is an important tool in navigating the complex social dynamics of medical encounters (Rogus-Pulia & Hind, 2015). We assume that others share our viewpoints and coping strategies, which can make it difficult to understand when someone is acting out of character with what we would expect or what seems to be in their best interest. We need to start by asking ourselves why this reasonable person (patient or caregiver) is making decisions that we do not understand and trying to explore their approach to stressful situations and their beliefs

The article by Gray (2002) is generally about teaching patient-centered care and the general attributes of what makes an individual possess strong patient-centered care qualities. Clarity is expressed throughout the article well, giving the reader exact intellectual instructions regarding how to successfully enhance patient-centered care. Accuracy is strongly expressed in paragraph 4, as the author states the guide FIFE in detail

Coronary heart disease diagnosis and events can increase stress dramatically causing more anxiety and depression in those affected. Rehabilitation programs using health education and cardio exercise are typically offered to these patients. Nevertheless, psychosocial treatments focusing on decreasing anxiety and stress by using goals, recommendations, and positive encouragements are often underutilized.

As learning takes place, it is important for students to identify whether or not they have an understanding of a concept, or can just regurgitate information. The purpose of a Clinical Interview is to analyze the answers and choices that students make in order to see what they do or do not understand. From this knowledge, teachers can help students develop a better understanding by extending multiple concept connections. According to Ginsburg (1997), “ascertaining the state of [a student’s] mentality” is a good way for teacher’s to identify areas of concern in terms of understanding. Often times, during these interviews, the workings that student shows reflect both their understandings and misconceptions.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends five core competencies to help improve the quality of care a patient receives in the health care industry. The five competencies of the IOM are the following “providing patient-centered care (personalization of care), working in interdisciplinary teams, utilizing evidence-based practice, applying quality improvement, and using the informatics system” (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). First is the ability to apply personalization of care to a patient. Personalization is not easy to teach, but is something that is learned through practice and class recommendations. I say class recommendations because sometimes situations will occur where a trained medical person has been taught if this occurs here is how to approach the situation. For instance, here in Detroit the medical staff have been exposed to people that are in need of medical attention after being shot. Yes, it is a stressful situation, but they do receive training in a classroom to help them through that situation, but most of the experience comes with on the job training working within the “team” of staff working on the trauma. The concept can be taught, but having a mock training for the situation helps too, which will lead to the person knowing what to do in the situation. Consequently, since the person knows what to do in the situation they can develop a rapport with the patient, thus making the patient feel as if they were treated well by the staff.

According to the International guidelines for management of CHD recommend that cardiac rehabilitation programmers include health education and psychological counselling (NHS, 2014). Patients should be offered a choice of community based and home based cardiac rehabilitation programmers to fit their needs and preferences (Hasnain, Patrick, Rod, 2015).

The Health Care Education course provided the author will new knowledge of different teaching and learning methods for adult learners, knowledge of way to measure competency in the training of health care professionals, and presented way to blend different teaching styles to improve success. This new knowledge has enable the author to improve on the success of in-service and procedural training, provided new techniques to measure competency of staff and providers, and will ultimately assist in the pursuit of a teaching position in a PA program. The course assisted in the development of the author’s practicum project, utilizing some of the basic teaching methods learned. The knowledge learned during this course will assist in the author’s pursuit to be a teacher, but there is a need for further knowledge in the subject of health care education. The author felt that there was room to expand on this topic within the program by perhaps the addition of other education related courses. With the author’s desire to teach at the graduate level, she may require further education and training that was beyond the ability of this course (and program) and will research additional courses to obtain a teaching certification.