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Running head: NURSING REFLECTION
NURSING REFLECTION
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NURSING REFLECTION
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As nurse is one of the most integrated and more vital professions in the health care
field and most of the patient care is undertaken by the nursing staffs only, it is very critical
the therapeutic communication that is done by the nurses is effective and beneficial to the
patient (Zhang et al. 2019). Not only with the patients and with the families of the patients
but there are many other stakeholders such as the medical team and the allied health care
teams as well as the assistant staffs who are equally involved in the patient care process –
communicating effectively with them is cardinal as well (Horvath et al. 2018)
Empathy is an important interpersonal communication skill pertinent to a safe and
therapeutic nurse-patient interaction and the same should be maintained in the patient
interviewing through to the whole process of the treatment, curing and recovery. Empathy is
an important interpersonal skill of understanding the perceptions, emotions, attitudes and
condition of another person from that person’s point of view only (Sheikh et al. 2017). As a
nurse, I performed my roles and functions as a nurse properly but when it came treating the
patient coming from indigenous sociocultural backgrounds, it was very difficult to
communicate with them properly. As a nurse, I lacked the important cultural awareness,
empathy cultural competence skills that always hindered my communication with the patients
and their families who came from aboriginal and the Torres Strait islander background.
Gradually with experience I understood that empathy is an integral aspect of cultural
competence skills and intercultural skills required for therapeutic collaboration with the
patient and with the other members of the multidisciplinary team (Pehrson et al. 2016). The
nursing intrapersonal skill of empathy in an interpersonal communication is imperative to the
collaboration with the other members of the multidisciplinary team in provide a more
effective patient centered care (Alfano et al. 2019). Over my experience and taking the staff
training sessions, I understood that addressing patients and the other clinical staffs and the
supportive staffs involved in the patient care with respect, dignity, esteem and developing a