A Guide on How to Handle Typical Australian Patients (Essay Sample)

Patients’ Interactions: A Guide on How to Handle Typical Australian Patients
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Patients’ Interactions: A Guide on How to Handle Typical Australian Patients
Interaction is an important facet in human beings (Bayer, 1989). It is through interaction that intentions, ideas and motives are communicated. Lack of interaction as a person may result in many social problems since there would be no understanding.
Health professional in Australia handles a number of patients from diverse backgrounds. As a health practitioner, I have come across many cases of misunderstandings between a health practitioner and a patient. The major scenario is when I found a patient who could not relate well with his caregiver thus resulting to overdose of the prescribed drugs.
From that incidence, I felt it was important to develop a simplified guide for health professional in Australia on how they should interact with their patients. The most important issue I realized is that many health practitioners in the Australian hospitals lacked empathy. It is always important to place yourself in the condition of the patient. That perspective will help to have an awareness of what the patient is undergoing.
A health professional should always avoid the use of medical jargons while handling the patients (Hart, 2010). I encountered a case where a nurse used very strong medical terminologies to explain to a patient how preventive care should be administered to diabetic condition. The jargon was enough to turn the patient away or else discourage the patient fr...