It is the most essential elements of information to guide the clinician the necessary care for the patient. Collecting or gathering a patient’s health history is the most important to begin the patient’s medical intervention. According to Lloyd and Craig (2007), providing a comprehensive health history will enhance the care of a patient. The article discusses the process of taking a patient’s history to provide a beneficial guide to nurses and clinicians who can use this approach when performing an assessment. The authors were concise of explaining the process or rationales of taking a patient’s history.
Unit 4222-335 Undertake physiological measurements (HSC 3052) Level: Credit value: UAN: 3 3 R/601/8662 Unit aim This unit is aimed at health & social care staff involved in the taking and recording of physiological measurements as part of the individual’s care plan. Learning outcomes There are five learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will be able to: 1. Understand relevant legislation, policy and good practice for undertaking physiological measurements 2. Understand the physiological states that can be measured 3.
Chochinov, 2007 (cited in Cornwell & Goodrich, 2009), states simply that compassion is ‘a deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.’ Pediatric patients and their families are highly sensitive to the compassionate nature of health care professionals and a successful therapeutic relationship with them depends on the sensitive, compassionate care offered by the nurse. This paper will discuss why communication, family centred care and compassion are necessary and important qualities for a nurse to possess when working with pediatric patients and specify some of the challenges a nurse may meet in providing these. Communicating with Babies and Children Nursing children and babies requires a highly skilled and sensitive approach to communication. The developmental age of the pediatric patient needs to be considered when determining the best ways to
Reflection as a learning tool allows me to identify the positive and negative aspects of my practice and to draw upon previous experiences and apply them to new situations “Reflective practice has, however, the potential to help practitioners in all fields unlock the tacit knowledge and understanding that they have of their practice and use this to generate knowledge for future practice”. (Schutz, 2007 pg.26) The clinical competency I have chosen in this report is Phlebotomy. As part of my role as a health care support worker within a District Nursing team Phlebotomy is one of my primary duties. The clinical skill I have chosen to reflect upon within this account is venepuncture. Confidentiality has been maintained throughout within this assignment and all names and locations are changed in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council code of conduct (2008, Section: Confidentiality) and for this purpose I have chosen to name the patient as Mrs Jones.
Personal goals is something everyone in the health care relationship is going to have; like the physician saving time, or the patient needing reassurance. Personal goals can be very important when trying to understand a patient and their needs. I feel that knowing one’s personal goals, you can get a better understanding of that person. Interdependence is also very important because it looks at things leading up to the health care conversation, like the receptionist that is very cold and not friendly. That one receptionist can change the whole mood of the patient, which continuing on into the visit with the physician.
I further believe that my patients should be informed about their illness regardless of what the condition or injury is. The patient should be provided with proper patient education about the illness that includes how to take care for the illness – its process, medications, and how to manage their daily life. The success of the patient’s recovery process could very well depend on the knowledge received. Patient teaching can be the key to teaching patients how to live a long productive
The methodology of lecturing in higher education was very different from what I knew; the lecturer delivers the key points and it is left to me to engage in detailed research to make sense of what has been taught in class. Independent study is now vital; I was expected to take reasonable responsibility for my learning. Autonomy was not only important in other to keep up with my studies but I also realised that as a future healthcare practitioner I had to be personally responsible and accountable for safe and compassionate evidence-based practice (NMC- Professional value). Time management was another major challenge, fitting university work around my everyday life and looking after my young family, but I quickly converted this challenges to a strength as I found out organisation was crucial to succeeding. Financially, things were also challenging living off bursary but I intend to work during the
Specifically, this paper will focus on barrier such as lack of education and exposure, Possible implications and interventions to reduce and eliminate these barriers will also be discussed . Although patients and family members have identified communication as a crucial component of end of life care, there are many barriers that prevent nurses from practicing this today . Importance of Communication during End of Life Care As stated earlier, communication has been identified as a critical component of end of life care . Ranging in discussions from advanced directives, disease status, and patient prognosis, “communication is seen as an essential element to achieve better outcomes at the [stages of] end of life” (Boyle, Miller, & Forbes-Thompson, 2005, p. 302) . It is reported that it is not only increases patient satisfaction, prevents the loss of patient dignity, but also decreases the amount of stress on family members and health care professionals (Boyle et al., 2005; Diaz-Montes, Johnson, Giuntoli, & Brown, 2013, p. 60) .
Genevieve Gayler Communication theories in Health and Social Care settings Theories of Communication Effective communication has an important role in a Health and Social Care setting, because the patient and health care professional need to be able to understand each other clearly so that the patient can receive the best possible care; which would be almost impossible if the patient’s needs can’t be clearly stated to the health care professional. Having communication eases the patient’s anxiety, removes the possibilities for mistakes to be made and lets each person know what is wanted from them. There are many ways to communicate, both verbally and non – verbal, for example interpersonal communication which is the method of which
The patient themselves will need to know what to expect and how to cope. I think it is very important that counseling be integrated into the care of the patients with Dementia. I know that once people fall out of control of their own bodies they need someone to talk to teach them how to cope with these. No one likes to admit they need counseling, but I know that if I do not get it myself for caring for my mother that eventually it will get the best of me. It is a lot to ask of yourself to care for someone who is your parent and then be a student, wife, and a mother.