Nursing 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lifelong Learning, Interpersonal Communication, Intentionality
28 Dec 2015
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Ensures professional standards and legal responsibilities met. Nurses can function as advocates for our patients; must communicate. Communication is the means of attaining and maintaining these things. Being authentic: must reach out to the patients, steering the course of the relationship, genuine, self-aware, reflection, honesty. Questioning beyond the surface: shared goals to work together, ask more meaningful questions, make them feel cared for (ex. Self-observing: knowing when to leave patients, reflection on performance. Interrupting contextual constraints: eliminating bias (fright and confusion of the hospital, privacy, respectful to others. Transmitted through body language, eye contact, posture, etc. Need to commit to increase relational capacity. Curiosity, perseverance, creativity, self-confidence, independence, fairness, integrity, humility. 5 senses sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell. Assumption that others think/fee/act as we would. Avoided by critical thinking and self-reflection, unlearning . What, when, where, why, how to convey messages. Intrapersonal: self-talk (inner talk, occurs within an individual.
