Communication skills have become an almost mandatory asset for professionals in various spheres. For instance, effectiveness and efficiency in communication are necessary for any work requiring supervising, coordinating functions and people, or developing products and relations (Mishra & Mishra, 2020). While verbal communication remains important, a significant amount of valuable information stays hidden in non-verbal signs. Even the little details can be crucial for mutual understanding, and non-verbal communication techniques are essential for delivering your message and being understood correctly. Therefore, I try my best to improve my non-verbal communicating skills. For instance, I constantly practice simple things, such as maintaining eye contact and controlling the posture and gestures during the conversation. I also made a habit of paying attention to other people’s body language and looking for steady patterns in their behavior.
Communication Skills of the Nurses
Nursing personnel of the 21st century has not only conduct routine procedures like administering medications, taking blood samples, or dressing a wound. Nowadays, nurses must consider the socio-cultural and environmental aspects of treatment (Demir & Ercan, 2019). That goal cannot be achieved if a nurse does not possess adequate communicating skills. In addition, nurses have to use communicating skills extensively during education and professional communication with colleagues.
Therefore, self-awareness and communicating skills represent an extremely important area of a nurse’s professional competence. According to Demir and Ercan (2019), creative educational methods based on such communicating skills as humor and roleplaying enabled the nurses to understand complicated concepts better. In addition, emotional communicating skills such as trusting people and openness to criticism helped nurses better cope with professional stress (Demir & Ercan, 2019). Overall, I find these skills useful for my practice since nursing remains a stressful profession that requires constant and continuous education.
References
Demir, S., & Ercan, F. (2019). The effect of a self-awareness and communication techniques course on the communication skills and ways of coping with stress of nursing students: An interventional study in Ankara, Turkey. J Pak Med Assoc, 69(5), 659-665.
Mishra, S. K., & Mishra, P. (2020). Functional aspects of communication skills for professional empowerment. Journal of English Language and Literature), 7(1), 79-85. doi: 10.333329/joell.7.1.79