Self-Awareness In Nursing

It was a pleasure to be part of this discussion and watch how this topic directly impacts many of us today, and has the potential to shape our future practice. Specifically, Yangchun brought idea of unanimous voice for nursing in pursuit of a safe and competent care. Rida developed on the same idea and felt more determined to bring a positive change. Laura asserted that ‘genuine engagement’ to acknowledge patient as a human being can have positive impact in care regimen. Overall, it was a very fruitful discussion.

Health is viewed as a part of the whole, is variable and teeters between synchronization and disagreement. Nurses depend on theories and models to promote healing, well-being, and mindfulness when providing care for individuals and interacting with

In 2009 the NHS constitution was published by the Department of health to help set key principles for all NHS bodies. The Department of health has last renewed the NHS constitution in 2013.The Department of health sets out that it will renew the constitution every 10 years (NHS constitution, 2015). The NHS constitution is there to provide a professional standard of care in a safe, high-quality environment. These values are in place to be a common reference for all NHS staff; patients and public so that they are striving towards the same principles and values.

It is important for holistic nurses to recognize that they cannot facilitate healing unless they are in the process of healing themselves. The World Health Organization defines self-care as "activities individuals, families, and communities undertake with the intention of enhancing health, preventing disease, limiting illness, and restoring health. These activities are derived from knowledge and skills from the pool of both professional and lay experience. They are undertaken by lay people on their own behalf, either separately or in participative col-laboration with professionals." (World Health Organization (1983).

These principles act as a set of rules and skills that assist in utilising therapeutic communication to ultimately promote behaviour change (Dart, 2011). MI focuses on building rapport in the initial stages of the nurse-patient relationship in order to provoke change (Rollnick et al., 2008). As a result, MI has the potential to significantly improve and achieve patient goals and objectives by identifying, analysing and resolving patient ambivalence in order to promote behavioural and lifestyle changes (Miller and Rollnick, 2013). This strategy seeks to assist patients in thinking differently about what might be achieved through change. MI also has the potential to act as a clinical tool in advising, educating and guiding patients in their quest for change (Rosengren,

In this First Clinical Practicum, it is incredible that I have spent 8 weeks to work in medical and surgical wards. Standing out of laboratory, all new things in the wards are curious to me so I am aggressive to explore and grasp every chance for study. Apart from many psychomotor skills I have learnt and applied, I found something I have to improve for my further nursing field. In this reflective journal, I would like to focus on one significant item which is communication. Kimberly B. Chapman (2009) mentioned that as healthcare providers try to accomplish more in less time, the relationships between patients and providers-and among partners-naturally suffer.

From a personal point of view, social awareness implies the ability to understanding other people’s feelings for the betterment of one 's well being. As I grew, I noted that there are components of a character that parents cannot offer merely because they entail personal decisions. As such, social awareness is inherent, and no one is forced to put it into practice. However, it must apply in all cases of life, especially in the nursing arena. Precisely, self-awareness and heeding to rules and regulations are among the basis of

According to the Chinn and Kramer (2010) personal knowing is important to the development of knowledge central to the practice of nursing. Personal knowing is the process of knowing one’s self and understanding that our behavior, attitude and values affect positively and negatively to others. Personal knowing is involved when nurses engage in the therapeutic use of self in the nurse patient relationship. For instance, care provided to the smoker with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is influenced by the stereotype assumptions that includes who they are and what they are experiencing. As a nurse providing care to this patient, it brings us to the place of knowing what we do and doing what we know.

The objectives of using therapeutic communication strategy are to support and gain the trust of the clients, promote healing and enhance functioning (Shelton, 2005). Without trust between nurses and clients, clients would not willing to share one 's feeling. As a result, no one can provide appropriate support to them. Thus, verbal and nonverbal communication should be pay attention. In this case, facial expressions, posture and physical barriers should be noticed (Evans, 2003).

The importance of self-awareness in the social care practitioner In this assignment, I will be discussing the importance of self-awareness in the social care practitioner. Self-awareness is defined as: ‘the process of getting to know your feelings, attitudes and values. It is also learning about the effect you have on others’ (Burnard,1992). To build on our positive qualities, we need to understand our characteristic’s and be aware of any negative ones that may interfere with effective practice.

In early 1970s nursing started to move away from routines and rituals towards research-based practice (James and Clarke 1994). Reflection is a broad and complex process (Kenzi-Sampson 2005) therefore there is not a set single definition (Jarvis 1992). According to Reid (1993, p.305) reflection can be defined as a “process of reviewing an experience of practice to describe, analyze, evaluate and so inform learning about practice”. The question is why do we need reflective practice. This essay will try to

3). If the nurse can practice metacognition, she can develop the attitudes of a critical thinker and learn to think clearly and critically about his or her patient. To do that, the nurse needs to reflect on how he or she is feeling continually. The nurse who has intellectual humility will recover from mental perseverance. The nurse who has intellectual empathy will understand others’ needs.

Introduction Communication is a vital skill nurses must possess in order to promote optimal personalized care for each of their patients. In today’s society, nurses face the dilemma of transcultural nursing. “Transcultural nursing is the study of comparisons and variances of a cultures values, ethics and beliefs in order to practice culturally consistent and valuable health care.” (Barker & DeNisco, 2013, p. 487) In order to communicate with our patients, nurses need to be free of their own bias and be culturally aware.

Providing care to a patient is a particularly challenging process that requires a great deal of effort from a nurse. A nurse’s ability to give quality care to their patient is an important aspect to a patient’s life both now and in the future. As such, nurses must exhibit specific qualities in their practice in order to maintain the best standard of care for their patients. Given this, I believe that the standards of knowledge, advocacy, and self-awareness are foundational to the nursing practice and to a nurse’s capacity to provide quality patient care. Knowledge

This becomes imperative with patient transfers to the wards, medical stepdown, or psych. While balancing patient care and this complex communication, nurses are still responsible for using good therapeutic communication. This was evident when Megan listened intently about one patient’s struggles with his housing situation, while providing holistic