Reflective Memo for Fundamental of Nursing
Nursing services require the high qualification of professionals working in this field. At the same time, nurses should be proficient not only in their professional field but also they should be able to maintain the effective communication with patients and support them, when necessary. Therefore, nursing implies the broad range of skills and abilities that nurses should have and the current course has contributed to the development of such skills and abilities. The current course has contributed to the development of my communication, analytical, problem solving and information processing skills and helped me to expand my personal philosophy and my views on nursing in the global context.Reflective Memo for Fundamental of Nursing
Communication
In actuality, communication is particularly important for the effective performance of nurses and provision of patients with high quality nursing care services. The effective communication starts with the active listening since nurses, who cannot listen to their patients, cannot perform successfully.
Furthermore, nurses should be able to read effectively and analytically because they should perceive adequate the information on patients’ health, on the one hand, and keep progressing professional through study of recent researches in the field of nursing and health care services. Effective and analytical reading requires well-developed reading skills oriented on the critical evaluation of the information perceived by the nurse while reading. Nurses should rely on their background professional knowledge, experience and new information which they receive from reading to make adequate conclusions on what they have just read.Reflective Memo for Fundamental of Nursing
In addition, nurses should be able to identify meaning and understand artistic expressions to be able to perceive messages which they receive from patients, colleagues, and other stakeholders. The accurate understanding of meaning is essential for the effective communication. Otherwise the risk of communication gaps emerges.
However, nurses should not only perceive messages effectively but also they should be able to communicate their ideas and messages accurately to make their communication effective. In this regard, nurses should be able to shape their ideas clearly avoiding too complex structures and explanations. A good message is a simple one, but not simplistic.
Speaking and writing in understandable way is very important for the effective communication, for instance, while reviewing various types of nursing professions. Understandable speaking and writing helps to communicate with colleagues and share ideas accurately avoiding misunderstanding that may be evoked by unclearly shaped ideas either verbally or in the written form.
Analyzing and evaluating
In actuality, health care system confronts numerous issues which affect the quality of health care services and their availability to people. In this regard, the introduction of the Health Care bill was an important step to the enhancement of health care services and their availability to people. Personally, I support the bill because it turns health care services into a social good rather than a commodity that may be sold or purchased only. The Health Care bill is essential to grant people, who live in poverty, with the equal access to health care services compared to other citizens.Reflective Memo for Fundamental of Nursing
Problem solving
Nursing students have to be aware of legislative changes to keep progressing successfully but also they have to develop their professional skills. In this regard, they may face difficulties, when they start their education because they may have problems while adapting to the new learning process, when they just start their education. I would recommend them assigning to a student mentor, who could help them to understand the specific learning environment and the learning process itself. The mentor student can facilitate the adaptation of freshmen to the new environment and help them to start learning successfully.
Using information
In the course of learning, nursing students may have difficulties, while writing their papers or finding information they need. In this regard, I would recommend using online databases which are always available to students. For instance, I enjoyed using the Tutoring center, where I could find the information I needed, including recent researches and detailed information on various issues which I studied during the course. At the same time, I would recommend students using other reliable online databases such as ProQuest or JSTOR, which offer users plenty of reliable researches and peer-reviewed articles which students can use as reliable sources of information for their own studies and learning. The use of conventional online resources, which are not peer-reviewed is not very helpful because student can never be certain into the scientific validity of the information, which they can obtain from those resources.Reflective Memo for Fundamental of Nursing
Global perspective and civic engagement
At the same time, nursing education is not just about developing professional skills and abilities in the field of nursing specifically. Instead, today, nursing students should also pay attention to cultural studies since they are likely to work in the multicultural environment, where understanding of health problems of their clients is not enough. Instead, they should be able to meet cultural norms and standards of their clients to avoid possible unintended offenses and to gain the confidence of their clients that will facilitate the work of nurses and nursing care (Limentani, 1999).
References:
Limentani, A. E. (1999, October). “The role of ethical principles in health care and the implications for ethical codes,” Journal of Medical Ethics, 25 (5), 394-399.Reflective Memo for Fundamental of Nursing