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Listen to Respond
Published in Judi Brownell, The Listening Advantage, 2019
Role models are helpful in a variety of ways. Do you know someone who gives extraordinary feedback—information that is on target, relevant, constructive, and motivational?What, exactly, does this person do that sets him apart?Does your relationship with the person giving feedback influence how readily you accept it?Does your relationship influence the type of feedback you receive? In what ways?
Patient education
Published in Laeth Sari Nasir, Arwa K Abdul-Haq, Caring for Arab Patients, 2018
Observing role models, or having vicarious experiences through other people, is another important source for patients’ self-confidence. Possible role models include other patients, healthcare professionals or family members. For example, if a newly diagnosed diabetic patient has a diabetic mother, the new task of performing home blood glucose monitoring will not be so daunting, because the patient has likely seen his or her mother perform the task many times. In this situation, the mother acts as a role model for successful management of the disease, making the patient more comfortable with the new tasks ahead of him or her, thus rendering patient education more effective.
Ethical Issues in Health Care and Medical School Curricula
Published in Eldo E. Frezza, Medical Ethics, 2018
In medical schools, it is important to have physicians as role models. However, in health care systems, it is necessary to have administrators as role models. Both must focus on discussions which involve professional development, responsibilities, legal and ethical principles, research, and deontology. Therefore, both should go for training and have a curriculum in ethics.
Effect of a patient-led educational session on pre-clerkship students’ learning of professional values and on their professional development
Published in Medical Education Online, 2020
Lavjay Butani, Colleen Sweeney, Jennifer Plant
Our teaching session and the qualitative analysis of students’ written reflections after the session add to the existing literature and demonstrate the potential effect of partnering with pediatric patients and their families within the pre-clerkship basic science instruction to bring greater meaning and value to the teaching experience for all involved. Sessions such as ours allow learners to move past the disease and see patients as people, getting a glimpse into their day to day personal lives and their interaction with the health-care system; this can be motivating for learners by providing a contextual experience to otherwise seemingly irrelevant classroom didactic teaching. Not only do they learn to appreciate humanism and excellence as key professional values, they also validate the importance that clinician role models play in inspiring and teaching them about these aspirational professional values as a means to providing competent and compassionate care to patients. Not surprisingly, role modeling is widely recognized as one of the most important strategies for facilitating the development of professional attitudes and behaviors in medical learners. [18] The session also enabled students to see how ‘normal’ of a life, patients with chronic illness can lead and that their disease doesn’t define who they and their families are. The reflective quote from a student, presented above, under empathy and compassion describes the shift from feeling sympathy towards the patients at the start of the session, to a more holistic recognition of their humanity.
Learning medical professionalism – the application of appreciative inquiry and social media
Published in Medical Education Online, 2019
Jyh-Gang Hsieh, Li-Chuan Kuo, Ying-Wei Wang
A student satisfaction survey was conducted after the course, wherein more than 90% of the students reported enjoying this type of course and would like to integrate their learning experiences into future behavior. They believed that exemplary behavior displayed by role models is worth learning and that they were able to attain professional growth in various aspects of the medical profession. The students expressed very few negative comments about the course. Only two students mentioned that during the course, they were only allowed to describe the positive behavior of instructors and considered it unnecessary to merely praise the instructors. In response to this comment, the instructors explained that appreciative inquiry was not only intended for instructors. The purpose of exemplifying positive behaviors within the community was that all students could understand, reflect on, and strengthen their medical professionalism.
“You cannot be what you cannot see”: we need visible nursing role models shaping a healthier planetary future for all
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2023
Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins, Jacqueline Avanthay Strus, June Kaminski, Shauna Davies
While there is evidence of increasing engagement of healthcare professionals in advocacy, practice, education, and research related to climate change (Miller, 2023), the challenge for the nursing profession is the need to increase our capacity to deliver climate related interventions (Lokmic-Tomkins et al., 2022) and increase the visibility of nurse-led engagement in planetary health. For this we need role models, after all “you cannot be what you cannot see”. We need role models that current and future generations of nurses can look up to as they carve out a space in planetary health for nurse-led interventions given our close relationship with the community. Our ability to walk between worlds, between the everyday lived experiences of those facing health inequities and the structures that surround us makes us uniquely positioned to advocate for policies that address climate justice issues, the gendered impacts of climate change, and structural racism. Advocating for local, national and international policies and programs prioritize social equity and address racial and gender issues to create healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities (Mohnot et al., 2019). By continuing to advocate for the ecological and social determinants of health, such as clean environment, poverty, healthcare access, and social support networks, nurses can improve communities’ overall health and resilience. Furthermore, nurses already take an active role in researching, tracking, and monitoring progress and evaluating the effectiveness of climate adaptation initiatives to continuously improve the community's resilience and provide ongoing evidence for robust policy development.