Interpersonal Communication With Patients

During week six was communication week, where we got the chance to practice our interpersonal and small group communication skills with some patients. The ward was quite noises that week because of this one particular patient, who was having a hard time that day. I mostly communicated with two main patients that day, one where I check his vital signs and interpersonal communicate with him, through that I was able to gather information successfully. My other patient I had a communication barrier because of his condition.
Assessing my first patient was easy, I made him quite comfortable because I built a relationship with him, through my interpersonal communication. He spoke very softly and slow, because he was 84 years old, but I did not alone that to be a communication barrier; I perform the …show more content…
He also told me to be careful I throw down his juice but there was no juice there, however I went along with him stating that his juice was still there and I wouldn’t throw it down trying my best to make him comfortable as possible. My interpersonal communication with that patient wasn’t successful because of his psychological barrier to effective communication. During that week of communication, I tried to apply Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory where he stated that, “nursing is a therapeutic, interpersonal, and goal oriented process”.
I think I handled my both communication situation quite well. However, when my patient with that alcohol withdrawal syndrome ask to remove his t-shirt which was to tight but I knew he was referring to the restrain. although, I saw the restrain around his chest was tie and uncomfortable, I should have told my preceptor, so maybe she could have gotten them to put on a proper restrain on the patient. I learnt that it doesn’t matter about the patient metal status, his retrain needed to be better because of the improper restrain that could of lend to death of the