The Significance of Self-Awareness in Healthcare Professionals

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Introduction:..................................................................................................................................2
Significance of self-awareness:.....................................................................................................3
Conclusion:.....................................................................................................................................6
References:.....................................................................................................................................7

Introduction:
Self-awareness is having a clear understanding or perception about self-personality which
include strength, weakness, beliefs, thoughts, motivation and emotions. It allows us to know or
understand other people, how they perceive us and our attitude and responses towards them at
that moment. It involves one being mindful of his/ her thoughts and feelings, strength and
vulnerabilities, coping mechanisms and most signifying the value that motivate one’s goals and
actions.
It is an important factor through which success can be accomplished in almost every professional
sector. In medical field, health care worker uses this to maintain relationship with patients. It is
also found that, people facing tough times, while using this process as it is time taking and can be
very troublesome sometimes (Edwards, n.d.). It begins with moral awareness and then it further
leads to struggle for changing by making efforts continuously. The nurses spent most of their
time with the patient, therefore it is vital for them to form therapeutic relationship with their
clients. Self-awareness could be really helpful as a tool to help to form a good therapeutic
relationship. Although the professional healthcare training school assist the health worker to
develop into person who knows how to function in critical or normal situation. Thus, it is very
significant for the health care workers education. The vital aspects of self-awareness are analysis
of its analysis factor, its implications in healthcare professionals, its development in healthcare
workers and lastly how to use it in establishing relationship with the patient.
The improvement of self-awareness in both personal as well as professional aspects often leads
to success, development at professional level and increase quality therapy and care of patient. As
it is the duty and ethical responsibility of health care workers to look after their patients and
provide good care to their patients, for which it is important to understand self (Symons, et al.,
2009). There should be rationale reflection and approach for the workers, to ensure proper
communication between health care providers and patients. The communication process between
healthcare workers and clients can be verbal or nonverbal. From the reflection of one’s act
through writing journals, speaking to friends, meditations are some of the ways of practicing
self-awareness. The healthcare worker while visiting their friends and listening to them and their
experiences, will make them have information on their personal lives and how they deal with
their issues and thus it will help them to understand and in taking care of their clients. A diary on
reflection of their own by using reflection models and learning about the body language are some
other important aspects that can improve self-awareness of health professionals and thus leads to
effective and efficient communication with their patient (Ahrweiler, et al., 2014). It is apparent
that self-awareness is not a quick or rapid process rather it continuous for longtime which is the
reason the healthcare professionals should perform it on regular basis.
The above discussion made it apparent that there are numerous ways through which self-
awareness of healthcare worker can be improved and helps in communicating with their patients.
One of the common method used in the health care is the personal reflection. It is very vital for
the health worker to reflect on their experiences and learn from the mistakes they have made in
past.(Ozcan, 2011). Personal reflection is helpful as the healthcare professional can relate with