SOCIAL ROLES IN THE CARING PROFESSION
Conventional families:Family is a network of interpersonal rights and obligations arising out of birth and marriage and extends across household boundaries. Personal choice is allowed for to some extent, as in marriage.Family ties are seen as binding together people of all ages and sex categories into groupings whose members feel responsibility to provide and supports each other. Such interdependence within families is seen as the moral basis of society, and therefore as requiring compromise of purely personal interests.
Deregulated families :One third of the people in the study rejected all group conventions and insist that family arrangements are a private matter to be freely negotiated among
…show more content…
In contrast to analyses that assume that socialization into norms determines behavior, Unlike most other areas of sociology, social network theory is usually defined in formal mathematics
We know that communication is the transfer of information between or among people,the practice of nursing utilizes constant communication between the nurse and the patient, the patient’s family, the nurse’s co-workers, supervisors, and many others. Communication in nursing can be a complicated process, and the possibility of sending or receiving incorrect messages frequently exists,.Successful communication has three major components: a sender, a receiver, and a message. In nursing you frequently have a great deal of information to send to others in a short period of time.
We know that the trust of patients and their families is an important part of providing effective nursing care. If they don’t trust the nurses, any communication that we attempt to send to them may be disregarded. The first step towards effective communication is honesty. Don’t tell a patient that you are going to do something unless you mean it, and if you can’t follow through, explain why. Promises, if made, must be kept. Other important factors are availability and responsiveness. Patients and families become impatient and sometimes angry when they feel
Communication is a process of transferring information from one person or from a group of people to the other. Communication can also be defined as a way and form of passing or receiving a message. People communicate to express or share a concern and allow the passing of message. By not communicating can limit the people’s ability to connect with each other. For instance care worker to care users and other professionals in the care setting environment. People communicate so that they can understand the needs of others and it ensures ways of building trust and resolving conflicts. Communication is a two way process that enables sharing of experience.
In nursing profession, communication is one of the vital interprofessional collaboration competencies. A slack in communication gap will affect effective teamwork in providing efficient patient care delivery. Without integrated cooperation and effective communication, there will be a delinquency in the healthcare system, resulting in
Communication is any form of expressing and receiving of messages between individuals. The importance of Communication in the nursing profession is to maintain high quality care for the patient but also maintain effective collaboration between professionals. Boykins, D (2014) states that the “registered nurse is expected to communicate in various formats and in all areas of practice”. Various formats include speaking to patients and coworkers as well as utilizing appropriate protocols and systems to effectively communicate regards to patient’s status.
This essay will highlight one of the key concepts of nursing .The concept that will be discussed in this essay will be communication, the reason for this chosen concept is that communication plays a vital role in everyday occurrences which defines how a situation is perceived by yourself, others and how communication is effectively handled . There will be a definition on what communication is also an evaluation of the chosen concept will be explored throughout this essay.
Communication involves information being sent, received and decoded between two or more people (Balzer-Riley 2008) and involves the use of a number of communication skills; which in a nursing context generally focuses on listening and giving information to patients (Weller 2002). This process of sending and receiving messages has been described as both simple and complex (Rosengren 2000 in McCabe 2006, p.4). It is a process which is continually utilised by nurses to convey and receive information from the patient, co-workers, others they come into contact with and the patient’s family.
A family is “a set of people related by blood, marriage or some other agreed-upon relationship, or adoption, who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.” (Schaefer, 2009) A family is considered a social institution. This social institution is one that can be applied to all three sociological theories which are functionalism, conflict, and interactionism.
According to Butts and Rich (2005), trust is essential to a healthy and respectful relationship. Once trust has been broken in a patient-nurse relationship, mistrust develops, making it difficult for the nurse to regain the patient's trust again (Butts & Rich, 2005). There must be an open relationship between the nurse and the patient so that there is open communication between them. To have open communication, the nurse needs to have a good rapport with the patient. The patient would not say anything how they feel, or what is on their mind, if they don’t trust the nurse. This trust also involves the actual nursing care, meaning the nurse’s medical knowledge. The goal of every medical staff, especially the nurses, is to prevent illness and treat those people who are ill. To be efficient and productive, nurses must then keep up to date with their medical knowledge. I believe that nurses must maintain current practices and delivery of patient care through continual research and
The application of communication into the nursing practice is done through the process of the nurse conducting a comprehensive assessments on patients, making diagnoses, setting realistic goals and evaluating outcomes (Khowaja, 2006). During the assessment of the patient is when interaction occurs and the nurse collects data regarding the patient. The data collected from the assessment is used to make nursing diagnosis from identified problems communicated between the patient and the nurse. After the nursing diagnosis is made, the nurse continues to communicate with the patient to plan by setting goals. The patient is encouraged to participate in decision making for collaboration of achievement of goals. Once the goals are set, the nurse and the patient collaborate through communication to formulate the means by which the goals can be attained. However, mutual goal setting is only successful if the patients trusted that the goal would benefit them (Williams, 2001). With communication, nursed have to
According to Boykin “Caring is the foundation of nursing” (Boykin et al, 2011) and in order to be a nurse, it is essential that a nurse can demonstrate and practice professional communication skills. Professional communication skills not only allows the nurse to provide different methods and tactics to communicate with patients of different needs and ages, but it enables the nurse to understand and to give the best possible care and outcome for the patient. Provision of information and handover is another major point for nurses and relates to professional communication. Nurses need to be able to get a detailed diagnosis from the patient through communication, and therefore allows for the nurse to handover vital information to other doctors or nurses who take over to provide the correct and best possible treatments and care. The nursing profession requires a nurse to uphold professional communication, provision of information and handover in order to care for the patient with the right treatment, and to provide the best health outcome.
It is my belief that recognizing any family structure or definition is important, as the traditional version may be skewed in so many ways, without knowing or recognizing the “family” that people we run across may come from. We can also learn from other family definitions to build upon our own themes, rules, and beliefs. Adding stigma and prejudice toward families different from our own not only alienate the members, but can add unnecessary stress upon that family system. Stress in any family system can be seen as either an adaptation potential or a negative force. Many effects on the
Communication is one of the basic survival skills of human and also a fundamental part of nursing. Effective communication would help to promote a positive nurse-client relationship which is crucial for the delivery of quality nursing care (Sheppard, 1993; McCabe 2003).
When communication is used properly, it can play a significant role in the transfer of information between people. In nursing, communication is used to process information to those around us every day. The way we send and perceive these messages can be altered by using different communication tools that help us bend or change the way these messages are perceived by the receiver (Huber, 2014). Communication tools can be extremely important in the roles we play when we are speaking not only to our patients; but to our colleagues and managers. As a nurse, if I had a patient
Nurses have an important job and as part of it they must have excellent leadership skills to delivered efficient patient care. Nurses are responsible for a variety of activities all including patients and how to keep a safe environment for them and other health care members working. Team communication is crucial because nurses need to be able to have the ability to communicate with staff, patients, and families. A nurse can fail in her/his career if they do not know the importance of communication in the health care field. “Professional communication” (Potter et al., 2013) is used when giving off reports and educating other staff members on the status of a patient. A nurse cannot use inappropriate words when explaining someone the health of
Communication is the trading of information between two or more people. There are multiple types and modes of communication that each have their own pros and cons. In healthcare, communication is the basis of all care. If there is no communication between people in the healthcare, there is no care. Communication is needed for medical history, physician orders, medications, and a multitude of other needs. Healthcare calls for a higher level of communication than would be expected. Effective communication is needed for patient centered care. Not only nurse-patient communication but also healthcare workers must communicated with each other to help the patient. A need to understand the basics communication, how it effects patient safety, and what you can do to prevent breakdown is essential to prevent communication issues.
Family is one of the hardest words to define. There are many definitions and thoughts of what a family consists of. When one accepts the definition of the census family given by Statistics Canada then a family becomes “a married couple and the children, if any… a couple living common law and the children, if any… a lone parent with at least one child living in the same dwelling… grandchild living with grandparents but no parents present… Census families can be opposite or same sex and children may be adopted, by birth, or marriage and all members must be living in the same dwelling” (Baker 2014). With family being such a difficult term to agree on, the creation of a complex study of family life emerges. The factors that influence family life are put into three theory categories; Social Structure, Interpersonal Factors, as well as Ideas, Global Culture, and Public Discourse.