Nurse Reflective Essay

This reflective essay will look in to aspects of communication on two separate interactions with patients in a clinic area. Key areas that can be improved on will be identified and established; using appraisal forms allowing for critical reflection, and a shortlist of the main points will be evaluated and discussed. Relevant literature will be used to examine the areas identified, and how these communication skills can be improved on in the future, and how they can be put in to working practice.
The key areas that have been selected are, firstly reflection and summarising at the end of a conversation, and giving the patient time to feedback on how they feel. Moreover, when it is the right time to interrupt a person or not and how this can be
It is the very nature and difficulty of the job that requires the best levels of communication so that they can deal with some of the most difficult situations. Nurses have to cope with the most extreme situations and deliver nursing care effectively, a large part of this is being able to adapt and communicate on different levels depending on the situation. Moreover, not having an awareness of yourself and how people perceive you can put barriers up to communication, emotional intelligence is just as important as communicating effectively (Bach, S Grant, A.
Some of these are; repeating back to the patient what has just been spoken about, this can be done by using the words that the other person has used and can assist when trying to wrap a conversation in a more structured fashion. On the other hand, by supporting an overview of a conversation and repeating back to the person using my own words, allows for creativity in a conversation. By using such techniques, working cooperatively to attain this, to support both the speaker and listener, can improve the quality of the interaction between them and offers the patient the time to feedback in the conversation (Sharland,