Aspects of Nursing

Nursing is a very broad term which describes care given to those who are sick or injured. There are so many aspects of nursing care so I decided to right characteristics would make a good nurse. The first one I'm going to talk about is communication skills. Communication is vital in nursing, if you don't communicate properly with a patient then you will not get the correct patient/nurse relationship and the patient won't feel like they can trust you. If you can't communicate properly then there could be a miscommunication possibly causing a misdiagnosis which is potentially very dangerous. There are many barriers yo communication that sometimes make is difficult. One would be lack of time on the nurses end. They just want to get the information they need so they can move on to the next thing. They don't feel like they have the time to consider the patients feelings. A few more barriers would be lack of privacy, skills mix on the wards can mean there is a shortage of qualified nurses who are available to talk to patients, lack of training, and different languages. A good way to keep good communication is by knowing what you want to say and what you need to know when you walk in the door. Other things to remember are maintaining eye contact and observing the patient’s body language, listening properly, picking up on the non-verbal signs as well as the verbal ones, avoiding the use of medical jargon, and in times of bad news make sure you are emotionally aware of the patient and be compassionate. Emotinal stability is very important in general but in nursing itsoften