From my experience, this role involves working with patients who present with challenging behaviours including aggression hence the need to be highly developed in communication and negotiation skills. Good communication ensures staff and other patients safety is maintained. I have been working with similar patients for the past 4 years where I have been required to communicate highly effectively with patient’s who are aggressive and threatening to ensure safety of others. My ability to communicate in writing has been demonstrated trough writing legible patient clinical progress notes. I communicate with internal and external services daily and also including patients, doctors, allied health professionals and community mental health services.…
In today’s group, group members were to complete the ‘Life Balance’ worksheet to identify the areas of imbalance in their life, and learn ways to develop and live a balanced life. PO attended group on time and moderately participated in the group activity. PO completed the worksheet, stated “I have to adopt healthier nutritional habits to maintain physical and emotional wellbeing”. PO appears to understand the importance of having a life balance in recovery, and is working on developing a balance in his life. Good treatment responses.…
Due to his condition he does have a doctor who provides home visit twice a year and a home health nurse to monitor his care…
I was on the phone with Michael Scott Brister, my father, asking if I could do an interview on him. He seemed eager. He likes to talk about our family’s history. “I’ll start off with the first question dad. What do you do to maintain your health/HEALTH?…
During this assignment, I learnt a lot about Anthony’s health problems. This assignment motivated me to go and find resources and read about diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis and lifestyle choices that can affect these diseases. Because I haven’t and no one around me has experienced these health problems, I didn’t know a lot about them. Now I do, and how to prevent this from occurring to me and others. I have also learnt how to give a full health assessment through listening to this one and writing it out like I have actually done the interview.…
A. Four Guiding Principles of MI The four guiding principles of Motivational Interviewing guide the clinician in a technique designed to create greater behavior change with clients. Successfully empowering individuals to create lasting healthy behavioral changes means establishing a trusting rapport and empathetically listening to their needs while maintaining a clear agenda that sets the stage for progressive “change speech” (Matulich, 2013). According to Matulich (2013), when a client expresses more and greater intent to change the more likely they are to initiate actions that mirror their intentional spoken wishes. The acronym, RULE stands for the four guiding principles of Motivational Interviewing: Resist, Understand, Listen, and Empower. When used strategically throughout a client interview they will guide a…
We perceive and comprehend our overall health differently. Jim and Larry mutually believe their general state of health is good, but differ in their approach to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Both men sell cars for the same car dealership, share the same birthday of January 4th but are three years apart in age. Jim L. is a seventy-three year old man who has lived in Omaha, Nebraska his whole life. He has been married for fifty-three years, is the father of two children and grandfather of six grandchildren.…
Listening Styles all around Review the discussion of listening styles on pages 160-164. Complete the “Self-Quiz” Discover Your Listening Styles” on page 162. Do gender or culture affect your own listening style? Do the results of your self-quiz seem accurate? How well does your listening style work for you in various listening situations?…
Introduction Therapeutic listening is a novel concept that also provides musical stimulation for increasing various skills, as described by Frick and Montez (2005): Therapeutic listening uses developmental and sensory integration frameworks, uses the organized sound patterns inherent in music, uses music that is electronically altered to elicit a specific response, focuses on postural organization and breath regulation (core), and provides a catalyst for eliciting emergent skills (p. 2). Therapeutic listening is utilized for assisting with regulatory patterns, decreasing sensory modulation difficulties, refining of communication and affect and encouraging singing and vocalization (Frick & Montez, 2005). Both of these treatment techniques use…
I am a Student Paramedic with the East Of England Ambulance NHS Trust and this essay will look reflectively at an incident I attended during the course of my duties. The assignment will reflect on the moral, ethical and legal aspects of pre-hospital care that challenged me during this particular emergency. Reflective practice is a requirement of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, 2014). Rolfe, Freshwater and Jasper (2001) state, “we learn by doing and realising what came of what we did”.…
He uses the wheelchair to go down to the dining room, exercise in the halls and independently take himself to the gym for therapies. He denies pain. He is wearing his cam boot. Mr. Rasak became tearful when speaking about going home.…
Communication is a big part of everyday life and one aspect of communication is listening. Listening is a process by which we make sense of what we hear and respond. There are four main listening styles and five stages of the listening process. The listening process involves five stages which are receiving, understanding, evaluating, remembering, and responding. The first and probably most important stage of the listening process is receiving.…
Throughout my life I often caught myself thinking, “I wish someone would listen!” “Do they even know what listening is?” More so, “do they know what it takes to be an active listener?” Before entering Counseling Theory and Process, I was exceedingly confident in my ability to be an active listener, hence my interest in becoming a counselor, little did I know, there was an abundant amount of information to be learned.…
This time gave me an opportunity to undertake reflective listening through active listening which according to Rogers (1975) in his “client-centered” therapy argues that it encourages the client to share the information in more depth than if I was only asking directive questions. This enabled me to gain information when the client brought out the underlying issues including those that I had not thought about. The active listening also improved my relationship with the client since I was able to express acceptance by avoiding any expression of disagreement or judgement thus making him open up and also trust me as his couselor. This method also left me with enough time to explore and diagnose the issue thus noting the new ways of approach to the…
Listening is an important skill of interpersonal communication. It helps to develop good interpersonal relationships with others. While communicating with others it is important to listen to another person carefully to interpret his/her message properly and accurately. In this communication episode I have used different listening strategies, like selecting, attending, understanding, remembering and responding to communicate effectively. “Listening is defined as selecting, attending to, constructing meaning from, remembering and responding to verbal and non-verbal messages”( Beebe, Beebe, Redmond, Geerinck and Salem-Wiseman, 2015, p.113 ).…