Lordgelyn Diane C.
February 5, 2021
Viernes
NCM 102 Reflections
What is the importance of Health Education towards
the client/patient?
As an aspiring health care professional mainly in being a nurse, the last thing that we want is the
inefficient healing of our patients because of the lack of knowledge to teach health education between
the health care workers/staffs, family, and especially the clients. I learned that health education is
important mostly to our client/patient because it empowers individuals and communities to settle
healthier lives by promoting their physical, mental, emotional, and social health by enhancing their
attitudes about caring for their well-being.
As I have said, health education promotes physical health to clients by learning to the nurses as
educators about the illness they are suffering and teaches that client what to do and not to do to prevent
further activities, medications, or foods that will worsen their condition. An example of it is a client who
has type 2 diabetes - health workers should follow the education process with the ASSURE Model to
increase self-care responsibility of the client along with the nursing process. Also, if the client succeeds
to process experience and information about their illness and accept their conditions (some patients are
in denial) because of the effective teachings of health education with the respect of their educator, then
we can say that mental and social health were to be established. As the clients promote healthier lives,
they will change their attitudes about caring for their well-being and learn to cope up, deal with it or live
with their illness along with the proper knowledge of health education. An example of it is a patient who
has liver disease. After the patient was hospitalized, the patient learned to change their lifestyles like not
drinking alcohol, eating a balanced diet, participating in self-help groups and others activities that will
improve their health.
In conclusion, Nurses must be knowledgeable on health education in order to provide proper
teachings to the clients because patient teaching is recognized as independent nursing function or a
primary responsibility of nurse (even without doctor’s order) to promote independency, self-care
reliance and willingness to participate for the promotion of health and prevention of illness to improves
quality of life and ensures continuity of care. With all of these being said, clients/patients should learn
health education to empower individuals and communities to settle healthier lives for the benefit of
individuals, health care professionals, and health organizations.
What is the most important character a
professional nurse must possess?
According to [ CITATION Sta201 \l 1033 ], there are more than a hundred types of nursing
professions including cardiac care nurses, clinical nurses specialist, critical care nurses, anesthetist
nurses, just to name a few. So, we can say that a nurse holds a patient’s health care journey all along the
way. As significantly significant it is, Our clinical instructor have said that the most important character
a professional nurse must possess is the “skill”, “knowledge”, and “character”, a strong communication
skills, being knowledgeable in their fields, good character, and critical thinking.
In nursing, strong communication skill is very important whether it is verbal or non-verbal to
address all the issue that is needed to adhere and for the nursing process and education process to begin
with. I have learned that one of the first priorities that we need to prepare is to establish rapport or a
good relationship to the patient, families, and other health care professionals to make the work easier to
do, to assess and to be done. An example of it is a patient being comfortable in opening up to you a
conversation about the information that you needed for the nursing and education process to be done
without them feeling uncomfortable of trusting you, in this way, you have gathered the information that
you needed and at the same time, there was a part of the patient’s mind that was released and made them
feel better and less stressed.
Also, the ability to communicate efficiently with other health care professionals throughout the
day is a crucial strength for nurses to have. Without the ability to accurately interpret and transmit
communication, medical errors are more likely to occur, patients frequently feel ignored or misinformed,
and the effect can be felt by the entire process.
Knowledge such as anatomy and physiology, pathology, vital signs, health education like ethical,
legal, and economic foundations of the educational process and others is also very important in the life
of nurses for them to function efficiently in each tasks that they are about to do through critical thinking.
Nurses needs to be a critical thinker because what they hold is a matter of life and death. An example of
it is an emergency room nurse admitting their new patient, doing the most priority things to do,
analyzing and managing the health risks and accurately diagnosing the patient by the gathered
information in their assessment phase with time management. . If the nurse is aware of the best
knowledge or information to use in practice, knowledge is what enhances treatment.
Last but the very important, a professional nurse must possess character. In my opinion the very
first character that a nurse should possess is the respect for all the individuals. After using your skills
and knowledge and teachings to them, it is very important to respect their own decisions because after
all, it is their lives that we are talking about and not ours. Nurses should not make them feel below but to
be equal. I have realized that nurses should understand that the patient is a patient for a reason and we
are there for them to help them, alleviate their suffering, and provide teachings. As nurses have respect
in each individual, it is also important to have a cultural awareness to give the client a complete and
patient-centered care. Nurses needed not to be bias and be understanding to patient’s cultural beliefs and
values. In that way, nurses also shows empathy, compassion and professionalism.
To summarize, the most important characters of a professional nurse must possess is a strong
combination of skills, knowledge, and character that compliments each other so that a highly specialized
career, which is continually expanding to meet the needs of society, lies beyond the time-honored
reputation for compassion and commitment. Nurses are invaluable in safeguarding public health, from
ensuring the most reliable diagnoses to continuing public education on important health concerns.
Works Cited
Writers, S. (2020, December 16). 100+ Awesome Nursing Specializations. Retrieved from
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