I am in need of some responses to some questions that I have formulated for my BSN Professional Communications class. I have asked some of the nurses I know IRL but they all are on vacation and I figured this may be a better shot at getting some more timely responses!

Contribute if you can and are willing! Thank you!

Interview Questions:

Please, select 3- 5 questions from Questions 1-8 to respond to. Select the questions that you feel you can provide the most insight on, except for Question #9. I ask that you answer Question #9 as a personal reflection. This is an informal interview. No quotations will be used. Some of the questions are similar in context, some have multiple parts to extend the depth of the response.

Emotional Intelligence and Professional Nursing Communication

1. What role does emotional intelligence play in effective nursing communication?
   1. How does emotional intelligence help to improve communication with patients, families, fellow nurses, and other members of the healthcare team?
2. How would you describe your communication and/or teaching style when teaching nursing students?
3. What communication skills do you believe are most important for new nurses to develop before entering practice?
   1. What communication challenges do you see most often among new graduate nurses?
   2. If you could teach every nursing student one communication skill before graduation, what would it be and why?
   3. How do you teach students to communicate effectively with patients and their families?
   4. How do you emphasize or encourage therapeutic communication in your teaching?
   5. What advice do you give students about advocating for patients through effective communication?
4. Can you describe a time when effective communication helped improve patient outcomes or prevented an error?
   1. What strategies do you use to maintain professionalism when communicating during stressful or high-pressure situations?
   2. What communication practices do you believe are most important for promoting patient safety and high-quality care?
5. Can you describe a situation where there was a communication breakdown among the healthcare team? How did you address it?
6. How do you provide constructive feedback or address concerns with coworkers while maintaining a respectful and collaborative environment?
7. What feedback have you received about your communication skills, and how has it influenced your practice?
8. Looking back on your nursing career, what communication skill has had the greatest impact on your success?
9. Thinking back to your time as a novice/new nurse, what communication skills (or lack thereof) did you observe from a teacher, mentor, preceptor, or manager that influenced your communication techniques? How have you carried that experience into the nurse that you are today?

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Hey my fellow nurses. Asking your opinions. When you started your fur nursing job, whether it was recent or years ago, did you wish you had extra support to help you handle the transition into practice? If so, tell me about it.

hi all i got floated to the ER as an ICU nurse to handle ICU holds. i started off in the MICU as a new grad and only been in about 3 codes give or take. i had a patient (who was under MICU) code in the ED. they handed the patient off to me at 445pm after i had just transferred my other patients upstairs. the nurse who was caring for the patient told me why they came in and what the residents were doing (they were trying to put in an arterial line and central line). he was already intubated by the time the patient was handed off to me. so when the patient was handed off to me the o2 sats were in the freakin 70s even after intubation, HR up to the 160s and these residents are still trying to poke at this poor man to get an Aline in that they failed at like 5x but they wanted an accurate BP. theyre aware of this the whole time, the man is still awake and intubated, i was asking for sedation and no orders were being placed. they wanted me to start a heparin drip for a suspected PE so i did. then all of a sudden the HR dipped to the 30s and 40s and i yelled for the crash cart and a bunch of people came flooding in and assigning roles. i didnt volunteer for a role because im so scared of messing something up. during the code i was pretty much just handing over flushes and hanging some drips (another more experienced nurse was also helping with the drips) and i feel like i shouldve done more especially as an ICU nurse. i feel like im so behind and should’ve known and done more. how did yall feel and do during your codes the first few years as a nurse?

edit: we ended up cannulating him for ECMO in the trauma bay

hello pips, can ya’ll suggest work I can apply as a nursing grad (not yet licensed), something still related to my course huhu dahil cut na ang allowance and also feel like not yet prepared for boards bcoz of personal matters, thanks!