Literaces and Communication for Healthcare Assignment 2022

RUNNING HEAD: NURSING 0
Nursing
Literaces and Communication for
Healthcare
8/13/2019

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Nursing as a health care science, emphases on allocating the desires of human as a bio
psychosocial and spiritual being. Its practise needs both science understanding and
interpersonal, intellectual and technical skills. A composite of information, medical work and
personal communication is a major requirement for treatment (Kramer, Barbara , Diana ,
& Cynthia , 2017). Therapeutic exercise includes on the one side, oral communication
between representatives of communal health and nurses and on the other hand the patient or
his relatives. It is a method of two ways (Williams, Teresa , & Helen , 2016). The patient
communicates their doubts and fears to their nurses and supports them to make a proper
diagnosis of nursing. Therapeutic communication is defined as the face-to-face
communication method that focuses on the progression of a patient’s physical and sensitive
well- being. Nurses may use methods of therapeutic statement to provide patients with
assistance and data (Clauson, Françoise , Magali , & Audrey , 2016).
I, as a graduate registered nurse (GRN) in an Aged Care Facility was looking after a
patient named, Mr William who had swelling and bruising in his left ankle. This patient was
crying in his obvious pain whenever there was weight on his left foot. As I tried to assist this
elderly man of seventy-nine years of age, he becomes anxious and started asking for the nurse
who came in the morning shift. He was so reluctant to even listen to me and pushed me away
instead. By the time I could do anything his wife came inside and seeing his husband in pain
starting yelling at me and other hospital staff. I had to use therapeutic communication with
this patient and his wife to calm them down and proceed with the further treatment. I insisted
them to trust the hospital staff as it is their duty to serve them in best of their interest and to
have faith and hope in the treatment of nurses. I looked at the patient’s physical, emotional
and spiritual needs obediently to be sensitive towards the patient and his wife. I made the
patient comfortable and in turn protected his prestige to have understanding. It is an

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important element to have a peaceful environment with no external distractions (André,
Torunn , Sigrun , & Endre , 2017). The patient should not be ashamed of discussing the
issues they have been facing with the nurses.
To have a reference to communication that would contribute to achieve effective
intra-professional things, I started looking towards his verbal and nonverbal communication
needs through which the treatment was enhanced, by respecting the patient’s personal values
and beliefs and communicating with him on timely basis. The capacity to interact is a very
significant skill and significant part of the work for a nurse. Nurses talk to individuals of
different academic, cultural and social backgrounds and need to do so effectively, caringly
and professionally- particularly when interacting with patients and their families (Kalb,
Susan , & Christine , 2015). Effective communication requires patient understanding and
expressing experiences.
The concept of care, it needs abilities and at the same time the nurse’s genuine
intention to comprehend what the patient is concerned with (Martin, Carolyn , & Neelam ,
2016). It is not adequate to comprehend the patient alone, but the nurse shall also transmit
the communication that she is comprehensible and suitable. Also there is a need for a term
called ‘privacy’ in the hospital which is often misunderstood or taken seriously. To have
effective communication privacy is important like patients and friends walk without
restrictions in all the regions of clinical departments. Even, communication with patient
requires comfort of space and a lot of time (Conceição & M. J. Rosa , 2019). Every patient
has their own mind-sets to reveal a problem they have been facing thus proper amount of
attention is required.
As a nurse, I had to study communication and management of interpersonal
relationships in order to excel in my work. I had to go through special courses and