102 Final Flashcards
Define and describe Partnership:
Reciprocal exchange btwn nurse and client.
Built through trust, respect and effective communication.
Define Self-Concept:
- Organized NETWORK of ideas, feelings and actions.
- SUBJECTIVE sense of the self and a complex mixture of thoughts, attitudes and perceptions.
- Key to UNDERSTAND the behaviours of clients/ourself
Characteristics and functions of self-concept:
- Dynamic: constantly changing
- Holistic: mind, body and spirit
- Unique: Physiological, personality, ethnicity, environment, social/cultural norms will all play a role
Role of Self-awareness in relation to self-concept.
Self-Awareness: means by which a person gains an Understanding and Knowledge
Occurs through interpersonal communication
Evaluating self (Professional Self-Awareness) is key:
- Educational needs
- Accountability accepted for actions taken
- Assertive ability with colleagues
- Advocate for client
- Objectivity in client situations
Physiological components of Emotions:
- HR Inc.
- BP Inc.
- Adrenaline secretion Inc.
- Blood Glucose Inc.
- Slowing of Digestion
- Dilation of pupils
- Blushing/Sweating
Define Emotions:
Verbal/non-verbal EXPRESSIONS of SUBJECTIVE feelings.
4 Types of emotions
- Positive: Happiness, Joy, Hope, Excitement
- Negative: Sadness, Fear, Grief, Guilt
- Primary: Sadness, Fear, Anxiety
* *deal with the primary** - Secondary: Anger, Frustration, Aggression, Irritability
* *caused by primary**
Factors that influence emotional expression
- Culture
- Personal Characteristics
- Family
- Social roles
- Fear of Self-Disclosure
Explain ways to improve effectiveness of emotional expression
- Acknowledge/Own the emotion
- Develop language to express emotions
- Seek to identify underlying feelings
- Use emotions constructively - productive action
- Differentiate between Feelings, Talking, Acting
Importance of feedback
Corrective/Evaluative Information
Objective view on behaviour
Opportunity of Change/Growth
Strategies for seeking, giving and receiving feedback
Gain permission Honesty Choose time and place offer suggestions Verbal behaviour = Non-Verbal behaviour Invite comments from receiver
Listen respectfully Avoid becoming defensive Clarify when you don't Understand Ask for guidance on future performance Demonstrate appreciation Integrate feedback
Reason for Identifying your own values during communication
To make sure that a bias does not occur to cloud judgement/solution.
3 Ways in which values are learned or acquired
- Inside of Family: Rituals, Direct, Indirect
a. Direct:
i. Moralizing: strict guidelines/rules
ii. Laissez-faire: no restrictions
b. Indirect:
i. Modelling: setting the example - Outside Of Family: Culture, religious beliefs, schools, peers, environment, community
- Individual Experience
Personal vs Professional Values
Personal: Learned for experience, guide behaviour, individual beliefs about good vs bad
Professional: Shared by all members of a profession, standard for right vs wrong, based on society beliefs, ensures consistency, governs behaviour, protects nurses and patients.
Define Ethics
Good Conduct, Character, and Motives
What is good/valuable for all people
DYNAMIC process of dialogue and action
Types of values conflict in nursing
- Ethical Violation: Neglecting appropriate action
- Ethical Dilemma: Ethical reasons for and against a decision
- Ethical Distress: When nurses obligation cannot be fulfilled
- Moral Residue: Times when compromised from choices made previously
- Ethical Uncertainty: not sure which ethical practice to apply
Define Nursing Informatics
The application of computer science and information science to nursing.
NI promotes the generation, management and processing of relevant data in order to use information and develop knowledge that supports nursing in all practice domains.
Potential function of groups with which nurses may be involved.
Therapy
Support
Activity
Education
5 Phases of group development
- Forming phase:
- Anxiety present
- Members seek acceptance
- Time and effort needed to develop trust
- Get to know each other OR Identification with others
- Commitment/Group-Contract - Storming phase:
- Members feel comfortable
- Transition stage
- Development of norms
- Leader: Models behaviour, focuses on positive, limits behaviour, accepts differences. - Norming phase:
- Feedback becomes more spontaneous
- Group standards emerge
- Individual goals become aligned with group
- Members share more leadership responsibilities - Performing phase:
- Most work occurs
- Cohesiveness increases
- Collective sharing
- Affirmation experienced - Adjourning phase:
- Termination
- Encouragement to express feelings re: contributions
- Leaders seek feedback/evaluation of group
- Confidentiality reminded
Factors which may affect the effectiveness of a group
Vague Goals Guarded COMMUNICATION POWER struggles Decision making without, little or no CONSULTATION No Tolerance for Controversy Individual RESOURCES are not used Low MORAL ONE-SIDED focus on task or maintenance roles
Task & Maintenance roles of group members
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Evaluate group process including the use of a sociogram.
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- Define Assertiveness:
2. 5 Characteristics of assertive communication strategies”
- Ability to communicate your preferences, ideas, and feelings in a manor that is clear and direct.
- Lets other people known who you are as a person and what is important to you.
- Openness
- Confidence
- Self-Awareness
- Respect for others
- Independence
Assertive, non-assertive, and aggressive styles of communication
Assertive:
- Ability to communicate your preferences, ideas, and feelings in a manor that is clear and direct.
- Lets other people known who you are as a person and what is important to you.
- Allowing individuals to act in their own best interests without infringing on or denying the rights of others.
Non-Assertive:
- Inability to do above stated actions.
Aggressive:
- Strong opinions
- Express self at expense of others
- Overbearing
- Angry
- Put others down
Principle for increasing assertive communication
- Describe problem
- State how problem effects you
- Solution proposition
- Confirm understanding
- Observe & Analyze the message of others
- Analyze situation where you are assertive, non-assertive, aggressive.
- Reflect on your own assertiveness
Describe the behaviour of an assertive nurse.
- Recognizes that everyone communicates with different degrees of assertiveness
- Self-confident and composed
- Maintains eye-contact
- Clear & Concise Speech
- Genuine & non Sarcastic Speech
- Firm & Positive Speech
- Non-Apologetic
- Initiative taken to guide situations
- Message congruency Verbally & Non-Verbally
Relationship between assertiveness and caring
- Treat others fairly while taking care of your own needs
- People respect clear, open, honest communication
- Helps to facilitate a change in behaviour
Therapeutic vs Social Relationships
Therapeutic: “A therapeutic relationship is a professional alliance in which the nurse and the patient join together for a defined period of time to achieve health-realted treatment goals”
- Nurse takes Responsibility for relationship
- Focus on Patient Needs
- Has specific Purpose and Goal
- Entered out of necessity
- Terminates when goal is met
- Self-disclosure is Limited for Nurse, Encouraged for Patient
Social:
- Equal responsibility
- Needs should receive equal attention from both parties’
- May not have a specific goal
- Spontaneous
- Feelings of “likeness”
- can last a Lifetime or end abruptly
- Self-disclosure is Expected
Role of nurse in establishing Therapeutic relationship
- Self-Awareness: Limits, When to ask for help, How you word things.
- Professional Boundaries
- Level of involvement
- Therapeutic use of self (Healing presence, not “all up in their face”)
- Empathy (Understanding what patient is telling you)
- Self-Disclosure Limited
- Empowerment
4 Phases of a Therapeutic relationship
- Pre-Interaction: Before meeting Patient
- Data gathering
- Psychological and Physical ‘stage’ is set
- Timing chosen
- Self-awareness analyzed - Orientation: Meeting Patient
- Purpose clarified
- Needs assessed
- Goals defined
- Communication strategies
- Observation of patient - Working: Begins when Patient Engages in care plan
- Problem defined
- Timing / Pacing
- Realistic Goals developed
- Alternative Solutions planned
- Plan implemented
- Challenge resistant behaviour - Termination: Closing of relationship (Prep bagan in Orientation phase)
- Goals met
- Acknowledge the termination
- Asses emotions and understanding
- Review / Summarize
- Referral
Bridges and barriers to developing therapeutic relationships
Bridges:
- Respect
- Caring
- Empowerment
- Trust
- Empathy
- Mutuality
- Ethics
Barriers:
- Anxiety
- Stereotyping / Bias
- Over-involvement
- Disengagement
- Violation of space
- Culture / Language
- Fear