Personal Narrative-Verbal Communication In Nursing

Verbally Verbal communication has always been a struggle for me; I must admit that I am better at expressing my thoughts and ideas when I write them down on paper. Before attending college, I typically did not think before I spoke and I did not sugar coat my words, which now I realize how this has affected some of my relationships with people and how I had unintentionally hurt people in the past. I find myself still learning and recognizing that this is an area that I anticipate will become more natural to me as I become a more competent nurse. Since this part of communication has been a struggle to me, therapeutic communication was also a struggle when it came to speaking to patients, staff, and taking nursing exams. Through every nursing

I learned the different roles of what a nurse needs to be to ensure efficient patient-care outcome and how leaders, followers and managers are all important in being a part of role development. The one experience that caused me to be a leader was here recently with my epidemiology presentation project in Community Health class. I was the one who initiated the group text, which was never used; I also was the one who created the power point for the presentation and sent out the first email asking for advice for the information that we started retrieving from our first meeting and asking any opinions on the power point itself. After four emails of no responses and several classes in which no one exerted any attempts to meet and talk about the project, I started forwarding my issue with the teacher, which she never inputted any advice after asking her for help. I persistently tried contacting the group and in the midst of all of the emails, texts, and avoidances in class, I finally started getting feedback from a couple of individuals. The one individual was quite rude and inappropriate and I ended up replying back in a mature way with no judgment, sarcasm, or attitude as she had responded to me and she ended up coming up to me in class the next

Critical thinking and creativity play is an important function in clinical reasoning because it permits one to be flexible, autonomous, and generate rapid ideas to demonstrate the answers to the troubles. Recognizing that the priority setting changes rapidly and frequently, it is important for nurses to recognize how to reevaluate each situation and recognize what task is the most relevant to be focused on at that moment. Clinical reasoning and priority setting are a subject that I feel I have discovered a little from each subject: Reasoning and Argumentation, Ethics, Medical-surgical, Pathophysiology, Medical terminology, and even like a class I am presently attending like Leadership and Management. These classes and more have taught me a vast sum of knowledge and now I feel as if I can put all the info that I have learned together like a puzzle piece which enables me to apply it in the clinical setting to evaluate the site, analyze the data, and recognize the importance, to create a solution that will assist my