Healthcare Professional Characteristics

Elaborate On Characteristics You See In An Excellent Health Care Professional

For a healthcare professional to have an excellent and rewarding career in the field of medicine, there are certain characteristics that they need to have. These characteristics are necessary for any successful health care professional and they include: communication Skills, emotional Stability, empathy, orientation to detail, adaptability, and team player among others. This paper discusses the characteristics that I see in an excellent healthcare professional.

One of the greatest characteristics of an excellent healthcare professional is the ability to have great communication skills. In this case, communications skills refer to both speaking as well as listening. An excellent healthcare professional follows the necessary directions without having any problems. He or she should also communicate effectively with patients and their families in order to understand their specific needs as well as explain specific treatments. A good healthcare professional should also have good communication skills in order to be able to discuss or explain certain medical conditions that affect a patient to other healthcare practitioners.

Emotional stability is the second characteristics of a good healthcare

professional. Healthcare tends to be a very stressful job and it therefore requires that a person who is emotionally stable. For instance, a healthcare professional is often exposed to seeing many traumatic situations such as: a joyful birth, a painful and catastrophic injury, a suffering or dying patient among others. By being emotionally stable a excellent health professional would be able to deal with such situations so that they do not internalize the stress that comes from seeing such incidents therefore preventing it from causing any personal harm into their lives. Empathy plays a big role in determining the characteristics of a good healthcare professional mainly because for one to have a successful career in this field, it is important to show mercy and care for the patients and their families. In most cases sick people tend to in distressful situations and therefore require empathy and especially their families who are equally stressed. This requires a healthcare professional to put themselves in the shoes of the patient or a family member in order to emphasize with the situation they are going through. However, emotional stability should help the healthcare professional not to empathize with patient and their families to the point of internalize others’ emotional as well as physical pain therefore causing personal harm into their lives.
Orientation to detail and organization is another important characteristic of an excellent healthcare professional. In the medical profession, sometimes the difference between life and death can be defined by small or very tiny details. In addition, several things like assessment, procedures, medication and documentation are dependent on very specific and accurate information where there are very little margins for error. Organization enhances orientation to detail such that an organized health care professional is likely to have a high orientation to details and very little margins for errors.
Other important characteristics of an excellent healthcare professional include being a good team player.

This is because treatment of a patient often requires the collective efforts of nurses, doctors, therapist, and nutritionists among others. A healthcare professional should also be able to adapt to different situation and circumstances during their practice. This is because every day is different from the previous and the next and a healthcare professional is likely to meet with many different patients with different illnesses and complications. This makes the work of a healthcare provider to be very unpredictable and as a result requiring high levels of adaptability and

flexibility.