During My placement at st George’s hospital, I got to better my Understanding on what effective communication is. As working with different people who have different perspectives, believes, and values shaped my idea of effective communication.

Effective communication is important in order for nurses and other professionals to deliver quality care service to patients such as nurses attending handover at the start of the shift to help know the current conditions or if there’s any changes in patient medication, care plans ,if the patient is for surgery or for discharge home.

It is key for me to develop relationships with other team members and patients since they aid in creating a feeling of mutual respect, confidence and trust.

Working in the hospital I have now learnt the importance of patients observations (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, saturation respiratory), assisting patients with personal care, making of bed, escalate warning scores of patients to the nurse in charge , blood glucose test. Identify patients who are NILL my mouth, patient dietary intake, urine out put measurement.

my placement gave me the chance to see myself as a professional, as I gradually learnt how to think about the patient’s health and managing their care and needs.