The goal of this assignment is to promote students’ awareness and development of communication skills through interactions with clients in a goal-directed, purposeful manner.
1. Conversation must be therapeutic in nature: Conversation is with her husband.
– use words such as “active listening, empathy, genuineness, and respect.”
2. Describe the situation using the setting and the client.
– setting: NEURO ICU.
-Caucasion patient is terminally-ill from the massive brain bleed. Due to the extensive brain damage, she is in a coma and sleeping peacefully in bed while her family is next to her in the hospital. She is in her 70’s and has five siblings of brothers and sisters. She lived a wonderful life with her multiple dogs and husband.
3. Identify the topic of the conversation: Losing a loved-one.
4. Idenfity the goal of the conversation: Being there to emotionally support them as a student nurse.
5. Identify thoughts and feelings during AND after the conversation.
6. Idenfity therapeutic communication techniques used such as broad openings, and using empathy.
7. Verbal response of the patient’s husband needs to be described adequately.
8. Verbal response of my own thoughts need to be described adequately.
9. Nonverbal behaviors are described adequately of my own self and patient.
9a. Include the emotional state of the self and patient all while during conversation.
10. Cultural considerations and lifespan issues and how they affect the conversation. Was there any bias?
11. How can the communication be improved?
12. Nursing diagnosis based on context of communication:
Include “Grieving related to anticipatory loss as evidenced by…” include how this relates to the context of the communication.