3-Week Reflection

Throughout the 4-week stimulation and 3-week role play, I have gained a better insight on how to give a comprehensive consultation to patients with equipped communication skills, which is also the main reason for me to choose this unit. During each week, I was putting effort in improving my communication and clinical decision making skills in the consultation as well as to boost my courage to communicate with patients in different situations.
First and foremost, the biggest problem that I had in my patient consultation was being panic while interacting with patients. For example, in one of the stimulations where I needed to gather information from the patient for doing the cardiovascular risk assessment, she was wondering if I asked a lot of questions about her personal details as well
This might be because of my unforgettable past experience while working on the ward and doing medicine reconciliation with patients, while interacting with one elderly patient with dementia, I was trying to talk in a slow speech clearly. However, out of my expectation, she was furious and didn’t understand what I was looking for. After this experience, I was lack of self-efficacy when talking to patients, for fear that they would suddenly burst into anger which I couldn’t manage and in worst case, patient harm might be resulted as patient was not listening to my concern and advice. That might be the reason why I was panicking while the patient started being worried in the stimulation as well as during the role play session while persuading patients to change their lifestyle. I found that I was too worried about not saying things that people was expecting and I was not really emphasis enough on patient’s