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Running head: PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE
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PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE
Professional Presence and Influence
Pamela Logalbo
Western Governors University
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Professional Presence and Influence
Professional Presence
Introduction
This paper is just the beginning of my personal exploration into professional presence, mindfulness practice, and healing environments. I am excited to start a journey into a better understanding of my own thoughts, beliefs, relationships, and values to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses. How can I use this to develop a professional presence plan in hopes to be an effective caregiver and leader? With the results of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter-II personality test, I intend to explain what
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There is a significant contrast between the health and healing models of Era I and Era III. I find the differences between these two models of health and healing as they relate to what it means to be human fascinating. Era I?s Mechanical Model of Health and Healing is the basic start of medicine from diagnosis to treatment. This model stems from only the physical world and is finite. A patient has abdominal pain caused by an inflamed appendix and is healed by a surgical procedure to remove it, the appendectomy. One might have the symptom of heartburn and is treated with an antacid medication like Zantac. Era III?s Body/Mind/Spirit Model is all encompassing to include not only the physical but also the spiritual aspect of being human. There are no boundaries between our minds and bodies. The possibilities are limitless. Dr. Dossey (2018) states that ?The biggest payoff of Era III concerns our destiny. If our mind is nonlocal and boundless, then it is infinite in time. Therefore, the death of the body does not mean that consciousness ceases to exist; something about us endures. Era III, therefore, carries with it the promise of immortality, which is a cure for the ?disease? that has caused more suffering for humans than any other: the fear of death.? When someone dies from cancer, there is a celebration of life instead of a funeral to lay to rest our remains. Our life is not over in this physical …show more content…
Others define it in so many ways. A professional presence is important to me because it is how I embody my nursing practice and convey my message through interactions with my patients. My presence is forever evolving with each interaction. There is no limit to what can be projected.
Just as presence may be difficult to describe, so is the concept behind Era III. One can?t fully explain a concept that is limitless and beyond comprehension. I am sure there is much more we will learn in Era III to explain the unexplained. I believe there is a connection between body, mind, spirit, space, and time. This complex connection has yet to be completely understood and revealed. If we one day fully understand Era III, we may finally answer the meaning of life or where our spirit goes once our physical body dies.
Influence on Nursing
However it can also make room for medical, legal and ethical dilemmas. Advances in medical technology enable individuals to delay the inevitable fate of death, overcome cancer, diabetes, and various traumatic injuries. Our advances in medical technologies now allow these individuals to do things on their own terms. The “terminally ill” state is described as having an incurable or irreversible condition that has a high probability of causing death within a relatively short time with or without treatment (Guest, p.3, 1998). A wide range of degenerative diseases can fall into either category, ranging from, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease and many forms of cancer. This control, however, lays assistance, whether direct or indirect, from a
On the topic of Atul Gawande’s novel Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, an ongoing issue has brought into question what we should do with the elderly and ill that are in need of care. On the one hand, some argue that they should be put in nursing homes and seek treatment for their problems because they can no longer take care of themselves. From this perspective, the elderly have a greater chance of getting injured if they are not taken care of properly, thus are seen as unfit to live on their own. On the other hand, however, others argue that the elderly should be allowed to live on their own as long as they maintain a healthy lifestyle. Atul Gawande, one of this view’s main proponents, urges us to realize that no one is immortal
The Dying of the Light is an article by Dr. Craig Bowron that captures the controversy surrounding the role of medication in prolonging life. The author describes that many medical advancements have become a burden to particularly elderly patients who in most instances are ready to embrace the reality of death. Dr. Bowron believes that dying in these modern times has become a tiring and unnatural process. “Everyone wants to grow old and die in his or her sleep, but the truth is most of us will die in pieces,” Bowron notes (Bowron). The article does not advocate for euthanasia or the management of health care costs due to terminal or chronic illness. Bowron faults humanity for not embracing life and death with dignity as it was in the past. He blames the emergence of modern medical advances and democracy as the sole reason why everyone is pursuing immortality or prolonging of life rather than embracing the natural course of things. The article is very articulate and comes out rather persuasive to its target audience that happens to be health-conscious. Craig Bowron uses effective rhetorical strategies such as logos, ethos, and pathos to pass on his message. The article’s credibility is impeccable due to the author’s authority in health matters as he is a hospital-based internist. A better placed individual to dissect this issue by analyzing his experiences in the healthcare profession. The article incorporates a passionate delivery that appeals to the readers’ hopes, opinions, and imagination.
“We can’t turn away from a patient’s pain just because it’s difficult” (chapman, 2015, p. 88). I know the path of least resistance is taking a path of ignorance. Easy, is to ignore or neglect the true pain patients experience in times of crisis. As caregivers I believe we all want to heal others or we wouldn’t be in the field of nursing, but there are only handfuls willing to be present during the healing process because sharing one’s pain hurts. As a surgical nurse, I find being genuinely present takes hard work on my behalf, not only mentally but emotionally. On a unit where patient’s needs and conditions are changing at astonishing rates, being present requires mental strength in order slow down enough to recognize the value presence
There are many attributes that contribute to being professional. The many that stick out in my mind are responsibility and accountability, leadership, honor and integrity, respect, and caring compassion and communication. All of these attributes pertain to the professional work environment in the own important way. When you are a professional you need to have responsibility and accountability. This means you have to demonstrate awareness of your own limitations, and identify developmental needs and approaches for improvements. You care for yourself appropriately and you present yourself in an appropriate manner (demeanor, dress, and hygiene). You recognize and report errors and poor behavior in peers. You have to take responsibility for appropriate share o...
Through advances in medical technology, some patients who previously would have passed away can now be kept alive by artificial ways. In some cases a patient may want such treatment because it is a momentary step possibly leading to the restoration of
A nurse is able to achieve this great balance, with the patient and self, by being conscious of the environment that surrounds them and through self awareness. For example, in the scene of an emergency, first and foremost, a nurse must check the environment before started emergent care. Both the patient and nurse must be safe for treatment to be effective. The environment is what surrounds us; our workplace, home, communities, issues we think about, the people we interact with, and the emotions associated with these interactions. The nurse knows that all of these components play an integral role in maintaining stability in a person’s life and health. The nurse assumes care of not just a disease process but of a human being as a whole; a family, a livelihood, a spirit, a person. A nurse knows that in order for holistic care to be effective, the care taker themselves should be at a point of stability as well. A true nurse knows that in order to excel you must know your limits and understand that while your main goal is to help the patient regain their strength, identity, and independence, that goal does not have to be achieved by compromising your own self, identity, and
John L McIntosh. (2003) . Handbook of Death and Dying. Volume 1: The Presence of Death. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference.
a healthy relationship and most of all knowing the patient’s needs. According to Hook (2104), presence empathy
The biomedical model of health has four core elements in which modern medicine is practiced. Haralombos et al, 2013 claim that in the 17th Century a philosopher, Rene Descartes believed in Mind-body dualism which he identified the mind as the controlling force of the body. Research discovered that our minds were not controlling our bodies and disease was recognised leading to body malfunctions. In the 19th Century Pasteur and Koch discovered that Specific aetiology can target diseases and cure them by narrowing down the cause. According
‘Being Mortal’ was a fascinating read about a young man who grows in the understanding of death and dying and what matters most in the end. We all have constraints and no matter how well we take care of ourselves and live our life, death comes to us all; and how we meet that end can be very different depending on how we want to spend the last moments of our journey. Medical science has its power and pushes the boundaries of life and death, but it can’t always save you, it won’t always work out the way that you hope it does. Doctors like Atul Gawande struggle to fix everyone’s problem and cure the patients who come into the hospital; but as the book progresses Atul finds that there are ways to handle patients’ lives and it doesn’t always involve
After pondering over the specific meaning behind professional identity and how I should answer this question, I realized that my professional identity is how I perceive myself within my occupational context. I was also going to mention some exact words that described me, however, I believe that a professional identity is not permanent. It is a concept that continues developing throughout our lives. I would like to refer to my professional identity as a process that is constantly influenced by my professors and their teaching style, by my interactions with my peers, and by the way I communicate with others. One of the things that I think is really important to me as a counselor in training, which I learned in my Master’s program, is the ability to empathize with people who come with a problem. I think empathy is a key element in the helping profession, and I enjoy learning how to do it the best possible way. Another factor that is very important to me is providing a sense of autonomy to clients and create an environment for them to feel safe to express what they are going through in life.
Sitzman, K., & Watson, J. (2014). Caring science, mindful practice: Implementing Watson's Human Caring Theory. New York: Springer Publishing Company LLC.
Living in the present allows me to live and tend to my thoughts and emotions that I often suppress or ignore. Working as a school counselor, I think that I will use mindfulness to help students with anxiety, behavior problems, and depression. I hope to use mindfulness in the future as I teach students how to use mindfulness in their own lives so that they can exist in the present and connect their mind with their body. Through using mindfulness in sessions with students and possibly in the classroom setting, I will give them a tool to help manage and become more self-aware of the thoughts and emotions they experience so they can learn how to better tend, express and manage them. However, without practicing mindfulness myself I would not have understood its power in the work of my client’s
immortality, death, and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the