The readings in this class were quite interesting and made me view different situations from someone else’s perspective. With all the books and stories we were responsible for this class, I connected to three wonderful stories for two particular reasons. As a young doctor, and doctor in general, there will be times when you develop a strong attachment towards a patient that may affect you mentally or a patient comes in with symptoms that are not recognizable. When I become a doctor, I always worried how I would react under pressure and whether I would become too emotionally attached to my patient; that is why I connected to The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, From the Heart and My Own Country, short stories from the book A Life in Medicine. These…
The cornerstone of this care model is developing a collaborative relationship between the patient and the clinician. Further, this dialogue…
I continually try to remind myself of this statement. It is important to communicate with your patients what health and heeling is. I need to ensure that all my patients have the necessary resources to encourage a healing environment. I feel I do a good job with empathy and compassion but lack some in communication and offering social support. Through this research I gained insight into the importance of communicating with a patient and their family’s to ensure the best healing environment possible.…
The Family Attachment Scheme brought upon a unique opportunity to view the indirect effects of the healthcare system through the voice of the patient themselves or in our case through the words of the patient’s mother. Ultimately, demonstrating the underlying complexity that medicine extends beyond the hospital, illustrating the behind the scene struggles an individual faces living with a rare disease, affecting not only the patient but the patients family, lifestyle and the intertwined social factors that accompany a rare disease. Conversely, I had the opportunity to see firsthand the positive influence a doctor can have on the patient and its impact on the family while analyzing the importance of the duties of a doctor in terms of the GMC to provide the best possible care for every future patient. Prior to the initial FAS visit, numerous thoughts crossed my mind, wondering how the interactions would take place and subconsciously wondering how I would come across as a clinical communicator. Throughout the duration of the FAS, I believe I had the chance to refine any prior communication skills while striving towards the end goal of becoming a competent clinical communicator.…
My pursuit of a medical degree is greatly strengthened by the Columbia University Public Health Scholars Program (SPHSP). Prior to matriculation from the program my source of motivation held no true direction, I wanted to simply “help people”. During SPHSP I was exposed to federally qualified health centers (FQHC) and my eyes were opened to new medium to help people. I admired the measures that FQHC put in place to effectively serve a population of people that, under normal circumstances, would not be able pursue healthcare. FQHCs aligned closely to the sense of equity that I began to develop as I was exposed to communities suffering from health disparities over the course of the internship.…
Grand Theory Comparison Mollie Tanner Maryville University Dorthea Orem Educational Background • Received diploma & Bachelors of Science degree in the 1930’s. • In 1945, received Masters degree from Catholic University of America • In 1976, received honorary doctorates from both Georgetown University & in 1980, one from Incarnate Word College • Taught at Catholic University of America & The Medical College of Virginia Philosophy of nursing • “Focus of nursing is on identifying self care needs, designing methods & actions to meet the needs & the totality of the demands for self care action.” • States “nursing care is therapeutic self care designed to supplement self care requisites in the absence of capabilities…
Theoretical Framework The theoretical frameworks used in this project are composed of the concept of patient engagement and the levels of prevention model. When patients have knowledge, skills, and willingness, they are more likely to engage and involve in their own health care. Patient engagement occurs when patients actively participate in the patient-centered interventions; it requires a collaboration between patients and healthcare providers (Tzeng, Yin, & Fitzgerald, 2015). Patient engagement relies on an effective communication strategy, which include motivated conversation, active listening, and empathic discussion (Huey-Ming, 2014).…
excellent health care. This category encompassed verbal communication of the provider with the patient; where the provider listens, gives information, and includes the patient in the health care process (Anderson et al., 2007). Because most individuals put a lot of trust on their physician, especially one they might frequent often for check-ups and referrals such as a primary care physician like the confederate used in our study, these individuals would like to have a positive relationship with such physician. What this means is that the quality of the patient-physician relationship can ultimately affect the patient’s emotional/behavioral responses as well as medical outcomes that have to do with compliance and recovery; this all being affected…
For this paper I will define the seven principles of patient-clinician communication, how I apply each of these to my interactions with my patients, methods being used to improve interdisciplinary communication, the one that applies best to my area of practice and describe how I use it, the ethical principles that can be applied to issues in patient-clinician communication, and the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is influenced by good or bad team communication. Communication between patient and clinician is imperative for the best possible outcomes. Principles of Communication First I will define the seven principles of patient-clinician communication. The first concept is mutual respect, which is patient and…
Patient medical care should not be discussed in open areas in order to provide a trusting relationship (Milanifar, Larijani, Paykarzadeh, Ashtari, & Mehdi Akhondi, 2014). A trusting relationship will be broken when a patient hears their health care provider talking about other patients’ medical care…
Patient-physician relationship and terminal illness The patient-physician relationship is vital to the palliative care process of patients deemed to be nearing death, and it is the foundation to which a treatment plan may be negotiated while integrating the best medical technology and human care available. A central aspect of the relationship is influenced by incorporating the virtues mentioned earlier. In addition, hope, empathy and compassion always serve as the major ways employed to ensure pain is alleviated and enhanced participation in treatment interventions whether socially, psychological or biological, is achieved (Tasman & Kay, 2013.p 46).…
This can be described as to their pain level, how they slept the night before, what their apprehensions of the upcoming days may be. By being able to develop a positive and caring relationship with our patients, we are able to form a bond in which they will be able to give us the answers that we need to provide the best care for them. In my nursing philosophy, I intend on developing trusting relationships with all my patients, even if their beliefs are not the same as my own, so that they feel comfortable enough with me to be able to talk open and honestly with me. By developing these relationships, it will aid in the best possible outcome for all those…
Trust in the Nurse/Patient Relationship The strength of the trust between a nurse and the patient determines how streamlined the care can be. For example, a patient who doesn’t disclose their entire health history to a nurse that they don’t have confidence in may experience more obstacles that could have been avoided. Trust is something that needs to be earned; it is not necessarily present because someone requires medical care. Patients become more trusting of nurses in a variety of ways: the capability to perform skills, awareness of physiological processes, empathy for their condition, etc.…
I felt as if my interaction with the patient could have went better. In the beginning she seemed distracted, but I continued with the discussion as I was running out of time. I tried to go into the patient’s room every hour to check on her and each time I went she seemed exhausted. During most of my interaction with the patient I would ask her how she was feeling and assess her pain level. During our interaction mentioned above the patient stated she had a pain of 4/10 and said she was feeling “okay.”…
Burroughs and Bartholomew (2014) emphasizes the importance of the relationship between nurses and physicians, and how critical it is that the two groups work together harmoniously. Over the past thirty years, we have been slowly moving away from the traditional nurse-physician relationship where the nurse is subordinate to the physician. Doctors have traditionally been seen as the leader in the two relationships based on their advanced education and training. This tradition has carried over into modern times, in part because physicians are often considered contract players or independent of the overall hospital hierarchy since they typically set their own rules in practice.…