South University nursing program’s five pillars include caring, holism, critical thinking, professionalism and communication. Caring expresses concern and empathy for individuals. Holism is a conception of viewing people as a whole being through mind, body and spirit. Critical thinking is a skill that must be developed with experience. Professionalism encompasses legal, political, and ethnical consequences for the modern nurse. Communication is mulitifacted it is verbal and nonverbal can be…
Introduction “Communication. It’s the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need.” ~ Meredith Grey Therapeutic communication is a professional, patient-centered, scientific, and goal directed (Halter, 2014). As Meredith Grey mentions that it is easy to learn words but hard to know what to say and how to say it. It is easy for healthcare…
In my enrolled nursing programme, there was a brifely introduction on fundamental nursing which focusing on primary care. In this registered nursing programme, the same subject with different roles and insight, my mindset was changed too. The concepts of human being, environment, health and nursing in fundamental nursing, were inspiring me. The human being, which included physical, psychological, social, spiritual areas and culural aspects of patients. How could I get these…
number of children with disabilities, such as autism, are entering the regular school systems. Due to this point, they outline symptoms of autism and explain that each person’s needs vary significantly. Symptoms include social withdrawal, impaired communication, and unusual behaviors such as being fixated on a specific routine. Early identification of autism, rather than later identification, most often leads to positive outcomes. Applied behavior analysis therapy is a technique used to…
major, Business Administration, and during the Fall 2016 semester, I began my journey with PCJ215: Business Communication. Amazingly the semester went by quickly, we are down to the last few weeks of class. Throughout the semester, I have continually referred to the textbook to assist with my writing, and I have found this course to be one of the most valuable courses I have taken. Communication and writing were not my strong points, and I realized this class would take an extreme amount of…
needed or required from the new piece of equipment. The community OT acted like the client was not even in the room; his body language was inappropriate, he sat facing the Gage OT and did not even acknowledge the client the few times she spoke. Communication during the assessment consisted of the Gage OT repeating the community…
therapy that uses movement to help people achieve emotional, mental, physical and social integration. Movement is used as a vehicle for self-expression since it works with the entire person, it integrates movement, creative process, and verbal communication. It is beneficial for the physical and mental health. It can be used to reduce stress, prevent diseases and mood management. It also increased muscular strength, coordination, mobility, and decrease muscular tension. It can be used by…
I have demonstrated good communication skills whilst implementing work experience at a day care centre, for children aged zero to five years old. I implemented a few group activities with the children; I was able to enhance my communication skills when communicating with the children as I used a clear soft tone when conversing with the children, to ensure that the children understood what I was explaining. This is significant as good communication skills is essential in a health and social…
The main themes of this journal consisted of therapeutic communication, time management, anxiety, and collaboration. So what? During our first few clinical days, I would feel extremely anxious and afraid of the unknown. My biggest fear was having clients direct their frustration or other strong feelings at me, and not knowing how to address it. This fear related to my lack of confidence in my ability to provide therapeutic communication. Most of this anxiety came from the fact that English is…
distances of time and space” Abraham Lincoln. Without written communication, we wouldn 't have things such as the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Star Spangled Banner, or even the Bible. Imagine a world without those important artifacts of history. The world would be in a complete mess! Written communication dates all the way back to the ancient Egyptians and their hieroglyphics. The history behind written communication leads to several reasons that exemplify why it is…