Lecture 1

Why Nursing & Importance of good writing

• - Career for life
• -Understanding and caring for people
• - Curious mix of technology, myth, science and are
• - Trusted individual
• - Media Portrays confusion
• - Socially constructed
• -Therapeutic Relationship
• - Transormational leadership model
• Helps us to:
• - Think in a focused and rational manner
• -develop a level of critical thinking which in turn allow for analysis and evaluation of circumstances
• - write succinctly
• - writing of clear clinical notes for patient/client progress (notes are written at the end of a shift or after an appointment with a patient/client)

Critical Thinking and Important nurses

• - Disiplined, intellectual process of applying skilful reasoning
• - Clinical decision - systematic and logical manner
• -Advanced to intellectual standards
• Aims
• - Think like a nurse
• -Focus on the need to write succinctly and clearly
• - Support written communication in future clinical settings.
• Judith Christensen
• - Youngest person to recieve the Flora Cameron award
• - 1st nurse in NZ to be awarded a PhD
• Thelma Burton secretary of the NZNA
• "You don't deserve it. We're taking a huge risk. We've never taken a chance like this on anyone so young before."
• She then went on to get many more schlorships and travelling around the whole world. But always returning to New Zealand. Now is art of the Salvation Army.
• + Irihapeti Ramsden

Clinical Reasoning Cycle

• 1.) Consider the patient's situation
• 2.) Collect cues/information
• 3.) Process Information
• 4.) Identify Problems/Issues
• 5.) Establish Goal(s)
• 6.) Take Action
• 7.) Evaluate outcomes
• 8.) Reflect on process and new learning

Thinking Like a Nurse

• To think like a nurse requires you to learn about the knowledge developed by the two Nurse Case studies, and help evolve their thinking into contemporary nursing
• Also requires that you develop a disciplined, self -directed way of thinking
• As well strive to be a clear, accurate, logical as you speak, read and write

Therapeutic Relation & Professional Care

• - Start and Finish
• - Build a raport with the patient/client
• - A rapport is build with trust,mutual understanding and respect
• - Nurse builds a picture of the patients needs through communication, assessmentand listening
• - Non-judgement manner
• - Mutual understanding
• - Agreement of how the care will be undertaken and delievered
• - Emotional Competence - own scope of ractice and knowledge base, acknowledge limitations
• - Building empathy- where nurses are able to manager their own emotional life - while being abkle to understand the emotional life of other people

Authenticity, Respect and Compassion

• Linked with self-awareness not only about your own values and beliefs
• - Ability to consider the values and beliefs of others
• - Reflecting on unique capabilities and limitations
• myth = all forms of caring are equal
• Authentic caring provides deeper meaning for both patients and nurses