10 Ways to Handle Difficult Patients or Co-Workers at Your Nursing Job
As if the actual nursing job is not hard enough, add difficult patients or co-workers to the mix and you may have a recipe for disaster. Dealing with difficult behavior can often times take its toll on us emotionally, leaving us feeling beat up and spent. Does that sound familiar?
Tips for Dealing with the Drug-seeking Patient
Physicians often lack training in communications skills that would enable them to navigate challenging patient encounters effectively. “Difficult” patients have specific obstructive behaviors that make it hard to establish a successful doctor-patient partnership and can result in strong negative emotions in the physician.
10 Communication Tips for Nurses Dealing with Angry Patients
Dealing with an “angry” patient is an uncomfortable situation for any clinician. By nature, most people would prefer to avoid conflict. Conflicts trigger tension, which, in turn, triggers one’s own flight-or-fight response. When met with anger, one tends to either react with anger or with the desire to flee. Remaining calm, professional and empathetic to the emotions of the patients is sometimes very difficult for any of us, but there are communication skills in nursing that can be used to defuse anger and re-establish effective dialogue with patients and their families.
Lifestyle & Income for Family Physicians
Family medicine is a specialty characterized by a high level of professional satisfaction, personal balance between career and home, and a comfortable lifestyle. While practice arrangements, to a large extent, determine work hours, schedule and family time, flexible practice models offer family physicians a wide range of lifestyle options. They have the flexibility to define their careers based on their own skills and preferences. They are also able to tailor their practices to the specific needs of the community in which they live.
The Ultimate List of Professional Associations for Nurses
Whatever your nursing specialty, you can bet there’s an association out there to offer career information, continuing-education credit, networking opportunities and other resources to meet your professional needs. Here are some nursing organizations to check out, listed in alphabetical order:
Registered Nurses: Most Trusted Profession
In a recent poll, nurses were once again at the top of 21 professions for honesty and ethics. We’ve held that spot for seven years now. That’s according to a Gallup Poll, 84% percent of Americans rate nurses’ honesty and ethics as “very high” or “high.”
8 Things You Should Never Say to a Patient
You don’t get to choose your patients. So your relationship with them can range anywhere from “match made in heaven” to “your worst nightmare.”
Any appointment can be a potentially difficult situation, mainly because when patients come to see you, they’re probably already anxious. They may be concerned about what’s ailing them, be uncomfortable with the sterile atmosphere, or have a general distrust of medical practitioners.
Regardless, proper patient care requires utmost clinical professionalism and good communication.
But “good communication” doesn’t necessarily mean “tell all.” While transparency is important, there are certainly things nurses should never say to their patients. Ever.
To help you keep your patients at ease, We came up with 8 things you should never say to them. We’ll also offer suggestions for what to say instead.
9 Qualities of a Great Nurse
It takes many great qualities to be a good nurse. Nursing as a specialty requires people to be as smart as doctors, as patient as a mother does, and as compassionate as a friend. A nursing career allows you to experience a level of personal gratification that does not come with any other job. What are the qualities that a great nurse should possess?
5 Reasons to Get a PhD/DNP
Less than one percent of all American nurses have a doctoral degree. But if the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has its way, that will soon change. Last year, the IOM, in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released The Future of Nursing, a summary of its two-year study of nursing and healthcare. The report says nurses need to take on greater responsibility in healthcare – and recommends doubling the number of doctorally-prepared nurses by 2020. One way to do that? Ensure that 10 percent of all new BSN grads move into a MSN, PhD or DNP program within five years of graduation.
What Your Workspace Says About You
If you spend a lot of time at a desk, personalizing the space makes sense — whether it’s a private corner office or a shared cubicle. But just as your clothes and body language make an impression on others, your workspace gives coworkers and clients a distinct impression about you.
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