Communication

# 7

All nurses and patients are different, but they are all human. In the last few weeks at hospital, I experienced many things from nurses and patients. I am sure this is not everything I will see in the future. However, I had tough times with my nurse and patients in the past weeks of my clinical.

With nurses: My nurse, who had high expectations, angry with me whenever I did something different or did not do well. She went to my clinical instructor right away and told everything I did not do well. I understood that my nurse wanted me to be professional but it was too much at the beginning. At the same day, I saw a nurse who swears to her patient because the patient swears to her. I understood why she became angry with her patient, but I was shocked by the nurse's speaking. I know there are many nice nurses out there.
With Patients: All my patients I picked were not easy to communicate. Since my biggest problem is communication in English which is my second language, it was tougher. One patient was ignoring me because I was a nursing student, not actual nurse. Another patient was easily mad at me. I tried hard to talk to them but they were just angry with me.

All people communicate differently like my nurse and my patients. There are many ways to say sentences which have same meaning. After I put so much effort to communicate with my patients, I figured out they had reasons to be offended by me. They had a fear or felt abandon because they are also human too. Good communication will gain many opportunities to approach with nurses or patients. I have been thinking that communication could be influenced by Christianity. I believed that Christian could be more thoughtful and gracious. As Christians, we have to listen first before we speak something to them. Even if we would be angry with them due to their negative attitudes, we could take care of them as we do to ourselves.