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Essay Instructions: Scenero: You have just had a conversation with one person you enjoy spending time with (a friend) and another person whom you feel less comfortable. (a supervisor) Analyze what you think about your non verbal listening behavior would be like with each person. Think abou eye contact, posture, facial expressions and gestures. Write a 500-800 word essay discussing the following points:
1. what do you think you would learn about your interpersonal skills?
2. what steps would you think you could make to improve or maintain each behavior skill?

Process: write from your own point of view using the pronoun "I". Use past tense for verbs since you're reporting what has already occured.

Para 1. Write about the identity of the 2 people (friend & supervisor), how well you know each person. Thimk of the place where you spoke to each person. Pick a time when it occured and how long. Also give a main topic each conversation.

Para2. Describe specific examples of nonverbal listening behavior for posture, eye contact, gestures & facial expressions that you would use with a friend. Write about how comfortable you feel talking to this person. Explain and analyze why you would have behaved this way during the conversation. Would your behavior have been appropriate for the conversation given what you know about proper communication? why or why not.

Para3. Provide the same type of discussion but with the second person. (The supervisor)

Para4. Continue by discussing at least 3 non verbal listening behaviors or skills that you think you discovered about yourself during these conversations. You may discuss your weak or strong skills or a combination of the two. Identify both your weak & strong points. With each skill you describe, also explain how you would intend to improve weaker skills that you identified in the previous paragrapg. Exactly what you can do to make & keep your nonverbal listening behaviors effective? Also, discuss how you can determine your status and progress toward improvment.

Final para. Discuss your reaction to this activity and analyze your non verbal listening behaviors. Summarize the insights you have gained about your communication skills.

Essay Instructions: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL WRITING (SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP USE OF THESE SKILLS VERBAL AND NON VERBAL SKILLS EXAMPLES

attending /warmth
respect
empathy
questioning/clarifying
concreteness
self-disclosure
genuinness
immediacy
caring confrontation

Essay Instructions: This is a termiantion summarry paper in phychiatric nursing.
qestion 1.) What behavioral changes did you notice occuring in your assiggned client and your self as a result of your nurse-patient relationship? The patient was smilling, seemed to enjoy my company.
2.)What short term goals or long term goals or outcomes were accomplished by your assigned client. The clent remained safe.
3.) Which of your nursing orders were most effective in helping your patient achieve his/her goals or outcomes? The most effective outcomes were providing a safe enviroment orienting the client to person place and time. Making sure the client had a nutritious meal. Reduced stimule.
4.) In reviewing your interactions-noted in your process recording, which communication technique
A.)Were most effective
b.) You've seen dramatic improvement in your communication or you still need to work on? I still nned to work on non verbal cues -meaning body language
5.) Describe the termination phase of your nurse-patient relationship.
a.) If you had the oppurtunity to do it over, is there anything you would have done differently?
b.)What feelings did your client express at the time?
c.)What feelings did you have at the time.? I wouldn,t do anything differently I think that I handle the situation as good as I could have. i really do not know if my client really understand that I was leaving because of her impaired memeory state, but shee didn't seem to be upset or any thing.
d.)i felt like i really enjoyed the nurse patient relationship, but I was tired I felt drained. And I was ready to leave.
6.)what are your feelings toward the termination of this clinical experience? Im glad I had the experience, but im glad it's over at the same time.
7.Were your expectations of nu 103 fufilled in the clinical area? Yes
8.)What did you find as the most meaningful aspect of your clinical experience in this phychiatric facility? I understand that you should treat people with kindness and respect and to be therapeutic. These people are human even though somthhing is wrong with there mind.
9>0 How do you plan to apply and transfer the concept and realizations you have come to recognize into other aspects of nursing? To be therspeutic in any setting.