NUR1 220 Lecture : Article 22 - When Is It My Turn.docx
11 Nov 2012
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The heart of listening: the struggle to suspend our own needs. Listening demands taking general interest in the speaker: sincerity and caring, suspend the interests of self, an active process. Listen to client, don"t concentrate on changing them: try not to give sympathetic comments. Be compassionate: requires you to suspend yourself. Forget what you might say next: be responsive. Gives the client a feeling that they are understood. Sometime we feel betrayed when ppl give us time to talk, but change topic to themselves. Someone ppl, while listening try to figure out a counter- argument. When ppl say, nothing, it"s a form of self-protection: children: honouring their right to respond the way they want shows respect as well as interest interest in them and respect for their feelings. If they kids feel that you are genuinely interested, they will talk. It"s hard to listen when we feel that we haven"t gotten the attention we need.
