Healthcare-related experience
My childhood experience has greatly shaped my aspiration to become a nurse. I found out that I was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome when I was 11 years old. Turner Syndrome is when females are born with only one X chromosome instead of two X chromosomes. This disorder has caused a variety of medical and developmental problems in my life, including short height, failure to start puberty, horseshoe-shaped kidney, heart defects, certain learning disabilities and social adjustment problems. Since I had an abnormal shaped kidney, the doctors recommended that I should receive a surgery to remove it. It was very hard for me and my family to decide whether or not I should receive the surgery. At the end, we decided to proceed …show more content…
Definition Provider-patient relationship is defined by Segen’s Medical Dictionary (2011) as “a formal or inferred relationship between a physical and a patient, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a patient.” An article by Stein (2006) published in Journal of the American Dietetic Association define provider-patient relationship as a communicative relationship between provider and patient/client and “good communication is the key to making a correct diagnosis and prescribing successful treatment” (p. 508). In addition, when providers are communicating with their patients, they should actively listen, understand their client’s story, and maintain confidentiality (Stein, 2006, p. 508). According to an article by Brennan et al. (2013) which was published in International Journal for Quality in Health Care, provider- patient relationship is “a trust relationship where trust acts as one means of bridging between both parties to the encounter” (p. 682). Trust has been shown to be an important factor because it influences “patient acceptance of therapeutic recommendations, adherence to recommendations, satisfaction with recommendations, satisfaction with medical care, symptom improvement and patient disenrollment” (Brennan et al., 2013, p.
My childhood experience has greatly shaped my aspiration to become a nurse. I found out that I was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome when I was 11 years old. Turner Syndrome is when females are born with only one X chromosome instead of two X chromosomes. This disorder has caused a variety of medical and developmental problems in my life, including short height, failure to start puberty, horseshoe-shaped kidney, heart defects, certain learning disabilities and social adjustment problems. Since I had an abnormal shaped kidney, the doctors recommended that I should receive a surgery to remove it. It was very hard for me and my family to decide whether or not I should receive the surgery. At the end, we decided to proceed …show more content…
Definition Provider-patient relationship is defined by Segen’s Medical Dictionary (2011) as “a formal or inferred relationship between a physical and a patient, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a patient.” An article by Stein (2006) published in Journal of the American Dietetic Association define provider-patient relationship as a communicative relationship between provider and patient/client and “good communication is the key to making a correct diagnosis and prescribing successful treatment” (p. 508). In addition, when providers are communicating with their patients, they should actively listen, understand their client’s story, and maintain confidentiality (Stein, 2006, p. 508). According to an article by Brennan et al. (2013) which was published in International Journal for Quality in Health Care, provider- patient relationship is “a trust relationship where trust acts as one means of bridging between both parties to the encounter” (p. 682). Trust has been shown to be an important factor because it influences “patient acceptance of therapeutic recommendations, adherence to recommendations, satisfaction with recommendations, satisfaction with medical care, symptom improvement and patient disenrollment” (Brennan et al., 2013, p.