¶ … Emotional Intelligence and Patient-Centered Care" is a 2007 publication from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine which seeks to discover whether or not Emotional Intelligence (EI) can be of use in the health care industry. Emotional Intelligence is a personal characteristic that some have identified as linked to the successful ability to form interpersonal relationships with patients in order to benefit the patient's interaction in the health care system. This would not only include a patient's experience when visiting health care professionals, but also the patient's increased overall health benefits such as being healthier and living longer. The authors stated purpose is to examine whether Emotional Intelligence, when adapted to the idea of patient-centered care, can be of assistance in the health care system. Emotional Intelligence is defined as "a set of abilities (verbal and non-verbal) that enable a person to generate, recognize, express, understand and evaluate their own and others' emotions in order to guide thinking and action and successfully cope with environmental demands...
As emotionally intelligent employees are reportedly more content, conscientious and committed in the workplace, businesses and organizations are repeatedly advised to recruit and retain these individuals. Abraham (2006), nevertheless, reports that the strongest findings emerging from her study was.".. The effect of job control on emotional intelligence." She contends that emotionally intelligent employees will not just naturally thrive in their workplace; that the work environment needs to provide independence in
The first point addressed by Clark's review determines that a fundamental change in medical perspective had begun to transpire with the assumption of varying clinical research investigations on the subject. This would contribute to what Clark identifies as a major shift in the way that physicians had begun to perceive and treat terminal illness. As opposed to a cut and dry preparation of the patient for the certainty of death,
Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion Abortion and Virtue Ethics In the Crossfire: Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion In the Crossfire: Nurses and the Ethics of Abortion Nebraska's Attorney General, Jon Bruning, announced his efforts to revoke the license of the only nurse working at Dr. LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic in a suburb of Omaha (Funk, 2013). The revocation proceedings are based on allegations of substandard care and the delegation of patient care
APN COLLABORATION IN CULTURALLY SENSITIVE END-OF-LIFE CARE Advanced Practice Nurse Collaboration in Culturally Sensitive End-of-Life CareAdvanced practice nurses (APNs) are crucial in providing comprehensive and compassionate care to seriously ill patients and their families. As healthcare professionals with specialized training and expertise, APNs are well-positioned to envision and facilitate collaboration among the patient, family, and interprofessional healthcare team. This collaboration is essential for managing and coordinating a culturally sensitive, patient-centered,
Introduction One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase the practice of preventive medicine (Obama, 2016). As preventive care is less common in the health care industry in the U.S. than is the practice of treating patients after they have already become ill (McGlynn, Asch, Adams et al., 2003), this study aims to increase preventive care among nurses through the application of health literacy, which can
Reflection Paper on the Collaborative Nurse-Client Relationship Introduction The collaborative nurse-client relationship (CNCR) is vitally important in achieving high quality of care in the field of nursing. However, as Feo, Rasmussen, Wiechula, Conroy and Kitson (2017) point out, developing these type of therapeutic relationship is not without its challenges. Putting the patient at the center of the care process and working with the patient so that the client takes ownership of his
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