Listening Evaluation In Nursing

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The “listening evaluation” was interesting to me. Based on the questions asked I scored a seventy-eight which indicates that I listen well. With my score, I believe that is one of my strengths. In my career field, it is imperative that I listen to what is being told to me by my patients, their family members or any clinical team member. That way proper medical care and treatment can be provided or initiated when warranted. Why did I score seventy-eight on this exercise? I feel it is because I listen to intuition, body language, common sense, and experience. In the beginning of my nursing career, I would not have scored this high, but with time came competence and I became more confident. Having self-confidence, allows us to open dialogs …show more content…

If we do all we can to make patients people feel that they are absolutely a priority; you will discover that they will open up and share things a lot of people would never obtain from them. I had a patient that was non-compliant with his medications and treatment for heart failure. He came across as a grumpy, hateful older man that nursing staff and some of the clinical team had brushed off and labeled as a “frequent flyer”. One night I was bound and determined that I was going to find out why he was not taking his medications and making his follow up appointments. During medication rounds, I had his medications to give him. After he took them, I sat down on the edge of his bed and starting talking with him about the weather. As the conversation progressed, he would ask me questions about my personal life and I would reciprocate about him. To make a long story short, he had just lost his wife of forty years, he was on a very limited income and could not read or write. I also found out that his wife was the one that made sure that his medications were taken as ordered. After our conversation, I notified all the proper channels of the team that night. Before the patient was discharged, home health was in place and his medication prescriptions were changed to where his insurance would

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