...Professional Presence and Influence Kristy R Thomas Western Governors University Professional Presence and Influence When you meet someone for the first time every detail is being noticed; from your entrance, wardrobe, handshake, etiquette, and voice quality and speech (Center for Professional Communication, 2014). First impressions are lasting ones and the first step in building long lasting relationships. A person must be aware of their presence and understand themselves to have a confident professional presence. Models of Health and Healing I am a mindful person and can easily drown out the distractions of the everyday noise of the unit so I can remain on track. It is important to try and think outside the box and keep your eye on the big picture. Utilizing critical thinking skills is a must. Everyday, every shift, a person is faced with making a difficult decision quickly with a limited amount of information. I currently work in a behavioral health setting. The pace of the unit can change rapidly during a shift. I feel my practice is a mixture of the first model of physical body and also the third model of body-mind-spirit. In behavioral health we often are more focused on the emotional care aspect, remembering to be culturally sensitive to our clients as well as respecting their spiritual beliefs and incorporating these aspects into their individualized recovery plan. With the advancements our society has achieved in medication, sometimes the cultural...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Understanding the self and being self aware have a huge significance to the care given to patients. Every person is made up of many different experiences, beliefs, mental, physical and spiritual elements, age, gender and background. When put in the context of a healthcare professional these elements have a direct effect on patient care and outcomes. When the healthcare professional understands the self it assists in providing an optimal outcome. When we are aware of our beliefs and positions in the world we can be cautious of how we approach a certain patient population and ultimately the care they receive. Professional presence, personality, mindfulness and healing environments will be discussed along with my personal response. Professional Presence Era I versus Era III As the western world has advanced in medicine Larry Dossey has identified three eras to give context to how medicine has advanced in function. (Koerner 2011). In Era I, as science was being incorporated to medicine, it was noted that health and illness was purely physical in nature and treatment. The methods of treating an illness focused entirely on the body, for example, administering medications or performing surgery. Health was understood as an absence of disease. The physical nature of the disease was all that was taken into account. The idea of consciousness was limited to the chemical, anatomic and physiological location in the brain. (Koerner 2011). Era I is very...
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...Running head: PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE 1 Professional Presence and Influence Esther Lopez Western Governors University PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE AND INFLUENCE 2 Over the last one hundred years there has been a great change in the way nurses, doctors, and others in the medical field, as well as the general public, have come to view health and wellness. Where once health was thought to only be comprised of our physical body and the physical things that affect it, we now know that health encompasses so much more. We know that who we are is made up not only of the physical body, but also of mind, and spirit (Koerner, 2011), and that this not only affects each of us individually but also those around us and that we are part of something much bigger(Dossey, n.d.). It is so very important for each one of us to truly get to know who “I” am, to understand my strengths and weaknesses, what “makes me tick”, and truly motivates me. It is only then that I can begin to move through the process of becoming the best person and nurse that I can be. That is the process each one of us is in, and as we all move through this process of better understanding ourselves and making the changes due to the new understanding, we can truly begin to affect all those around us, also known as the “ripple effect”. Section A: Professional Presence A1. In the course of this class we discussed three models of health and healing-Era I, Era II, and Era III...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Professional Presence and Influences To feel completely human one have to be able to care for themselves and also for someone else in a respected and nurtured manner. According to Dr. Koerner, one consider them self valuable and useful when they are able to contribute to wellbeing of themselves and others that they connect with (Koerner 2011).In all profession, professional presence and influence is a continuous life long process that requires one to first understand their feelings, attitude and understanding of why they choose the particular profession the first place. This requires a complete mind and soul searching. In a professional such as nursing, the professional presence and influence is considered to be a healing presence (Korner).It indeed allows you to enter a unknown zone, a place, feeling or thoughts that you have never experience before. This is where you own self-awareness of your past, presence, beliefs and value system plays an important role in how you care for people that are place in your care. As a nurse I must leave behind all prejudges, culture, children hood beliefs and preconceive motions in order for me to treat and care for all my patients with compassion, respect and understanding of where the patient has been, where he or she is...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Caroline Lambert Western Governors University Professional Presence and Influence A. Professional Presence Discovery of a person’s authentic self and the impact on health and healing is as unique as our own fingerprints. The lifelong journey that reveals our true authenticity establishes who we are as humans and how we relate to others. My professional presence as a nurse is guided by my own distinctive life experiences. I have learned more from my numerous personal failures than I have from my triumphs. By taking time for introspection along my personal life journey, I understand what drives me and ignites my true passion. To me, nursing is considerably more than a profession—it is, in essence, a calling. I chose nursing to make a genuine difference in people’s lives and discovered along my path that nursing has profoundly impacted me as a human being. I believe that you must persevere through life’s trials and tribulations to attain your authenticity. To be an impactful leader in your life’s profession, you must understand the many and subtle nuances of the self. This self-awareness guides your professional presence as a human caring for your patients in a touching human way. Your everyday life experiences influence who you become in the future. Once you discover what inspires your soul, and you are expressing your truest self, your gifts of influence and guiding presence will shine through...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Melissa A. Cummings Western Governor’s University Abstract This paper examines my personal professional presence and how my personality influences both my personal and professional life. It will examine how I can use mindfulness and self-awareness to improve my professional practice with co-workers and patients and how I can bring mindfulness into my own life. Professional Presence and Influence Professional Presence Larry Dossey discusses three eras medicine in his book, Reinventing Medicine. Era I is a time period which began in the 1860’s and focused on the physical body as the reason for illness. The body was treated with surgical procedures and drugs. Era II focused on the body also, but it was realized that emotions and feelings could influence the body’s functions. The third Era, Era III says that “the mind is not confined to the body, that the mind is boundless and unlimited” (Dossey, n.d.). Era I equates to a purely “physical body” model of health and healing. This model does not view the person as a whole, but rather the ailment independent of the person. If a person had an intestinal disorder, medications may be prescribed, but there may be no discussion as to how the disorder came to be. In this era, we would not look at the patient’s nutrition or life situations which may have precipitated their illness. Era III, the modern era of health and healing, looks at the patient as a whole person. If this patient sought...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Bergetter Harper Western Governor’s University Professional Presence and Influence I’m focusing on the mind/body/spirit health model. I consider myself a spiritual person and I rely on my relationship with God through prayer to help me make the right decision, not only in my personal life, but in my professional life as well. Professional Presence Models of Health and Healing The mind/body/spirit health model is the most interesting health model for me because I believe and depend on a higher power. Era III is the one of the most interesting era’s in health and healing because technology has come a long way in helping our society deal with getting rid of diseases. It has integrated science and technology in a way that is continuing to help us grow and learn about health and healing. Dr. Larry Dossey (1999) explores three eras of medicine. Mind-body –according to Dr. Dossey, the second era of medicine emerged after World War II circa 1950 with the breakthrough knowledge of ailments affecting one’s mind having a direct correlation with physical ailments. Unlike medical practices in era I the physical body model, this was the beginning of medical professionals treating ailments beyond the visible wounds and subjective data. Now practitioners began to look at the patient a whole human being with complex needs and understanding mental defects such as depression could be manifested physically with ramifications such as weight gain, fatigue...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Dominique Pereira Western Governors University INTRODUCTION Professional Presence Models of health and healing In the history of medicine, progression, innovation, and challenging thought processes has brought us to the way of operation in healthcare today. Society’s understanding of health and wellness reflects progressive movement as evidenced by Dossey’s three eras of medicine. Era I formed in the 1800’s held beliefs that “health and illness were completely physical in nature” (citation). This view focused solely on the physical symptoms of health, and treatment choices reflected these practices. It was not believed to look at the whole body and person in aspects of healing. Treatment was limited to surgical procedures and drugs. With advancements of medicine and different approaches to healing, a new framework of operational thought is used in the world. Era III is the most recent and sophisticated model. This model began in the 1990’s and still has developing concepts today. In this era “consciousness is nonlocal and not bound to the individual body” (citation). Era III utilizes the concept of the “whole person” and how thoughts, experiences, and physical aspects have an effect on our health and the health of those that are close to us. Differences pertaining to professional presence In my career as a public health nurse, my professional presence most closely resembles...
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...Professional Presence and Influence - YOT Task 1 Model of Health and Healing Mind- Body-The second era of medicine according to Dr. Dossey (n.d), from approximately 1950 to 1990, focuses on the discovery that one’s mental ailments are related to physical ailments. In this era the practitioners combined the treatment of conditions outside of obvious injuries and subjective information, unlike in the previous era which didn’t include the idea that the mind effects the body. In era II alternative treatments like hypnosis, biofeedback, relaxation techniques, imagery and counseling began to be incorporated into the treatment of the whole body. Mind -Body- Spirit-This is the third era, where Dr. Dossey (n.d.) proposes that consciousness is not limited to a being’s body. He suggests that an individual’s actions and intentions not only affects his or her own body but may also have an impact on that of another, at a distance, even though that other person is not cognizant of the effort (Dossey, n.d.). This awareness of intrapersonal relationships stands in contrast to past medical practices in that it now takes into account the influences outside of the patient and becomes an important part of treatment and outcome. With this knowledge, practitioners began to see the wholeness of human beings and the importance of treating body, mind and spirit. With the recognition that one’s community or cultural society has an impact on a person’s health, practitioners now have the additional...
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...Introduction Professional presence is an analysis of our past, present and future. It is a construct of our knowledge, our influences, our self-awareness and practices. It comes down to how each of us understands what it means to be human and how to care for one another. This is always evolving based on new experiences and knowledge. Through looking over time at the view point of humans, to personality tests, to personal development and lastly looking at optimal healing environments this paper will construct my professional presence and look at ways to improve my ability to care for others. A1. Models of health and healing: A comparison of 2 Eras In Dr. Dossey’s “A Conversation About the Future of Medicine” he discusses his theory of the progress of health and healing. He looks at how medicine changed from the 1860s the 21st century based on how the individual was viewed. He shows how the individual progressed from being looked at as solely a physical being with physical ailments to more modern views where we treat the person has a whole including their emotions and “spirit” or “soul”. He broke this progression down into 3 parts which were called “Eras”. An overview of the Era’s will show how medicine has progressed to look at the patient as whole not just a body with symptoms. Era I, also called “mechanical medicine”, began in the 1860s. In this era Dossey shows how patients were treated in a purely physical nature. He states that the, “prevailing view that health and...
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...ULT Western Governors University Professional Presence and Influence ULT January 22, 2016 ULT A 1. Models of Health and Healing Everyone has their own belief when it comes to health and healing. Some people may believe in power of pray with no conventional medicine. Others believe western medicine can cure what ails them. Today I will discuss the difference between Era II and Era III models of health and healing relating to what it means to be human. Era II is known as the mind-body model. This model was developed in the 19th century. It is believed to have conscious thought that assist in healing the body. “"Psychosomatic" aspect: that emotions and feelings can influence the body's functions.” (Dossey, n.d., p. 1). With Era II arose negative attitude, feelings and thoughts cause disease. Bad attitude equaled disease. With this discovery, people’s emotions can affect their heart rate, blood pressure, etc. Then Dossey realized positive thoughts, attitude and prayer can make people healthy. “Now, this has been sort of turned on its head and we recognize that thoughts, emotions, attitudes and feelings can really be used to make people healthy.” (DiCarlo, 1996, p. 1). Dossey’s discover of Era III involves consciousness which affects not only your body, but individuals miles away. This era is known as the mind-body-spirit model. Within Dossey’s research, he discovered the mind is different from the brain. When people die, their spirit lives on to assist in research...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Dina L. Bredeau, ARNP Western Governors University Society has progressed both socially and technologically as has medicine. This includes our understanding of health and healing as evidenced by Dossey’s three eras of medicine. Era 1, beginning in the 1800’s, reflected the prevailing view that health and illness are totally physical in nature and therapies included surgical procedures and drugs. Era 2, starting in the 1950’s, related to the mind and body. Practitioners began to realize that emotions and feelings can impact health. Era 3, still developing today, began in the 1990’s and builds on the previous eras by adding the spirit and proposes that consciousness is not confined to one’s individual body. The mind is boundless and may not only affect a person’s body, but the body of another person at a distance, even if that person is unaware (Dossey, n.d.) A. Professional Presence As the three eras of medicine have evolved over the years, it is apparent that they are intertwined, yet very different as evidenced by Era 1 and Era 3. Era 1’s main focus is on the body and addresses the health and healing of humans based on bodily functions and how they can be treated. Era 3 takes a more holistic approach by incorporating the body, mind and spirit. This includes Watson’s theory of human caring which discusses “human caring consciousness, administering ‘human care essentials’, which potentiate alignment of mind body spirit...
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...Professional Presence and Influence YOT Task 1 Hellen C. Adebowale Models of Health and Healing Two of the three models of health and healing discussed by Dossey (1999) were Era II Body/Mind Model of the 1950s and Era III Body/Mind/Spirit Model of the 1990s. According to Dossey (1999), post World War II the Medical Doctors noticed that there was proof that the functioning of the human body can be affected by other factors such as stress and emotions which, can lead to diseases such as ulcers and high blood pressure. This model brought to light the realization that treating the human body is complex because when the physical body is not well the mentation of the patient is affected resulting in exacerbation of other diseases such as high blood pressure and ulcers. The third era, Body/Mind/Spirit model is an advancement of the Body/Mind model discovered in the 1990’s. The healthcare professionals realized that there is scientific evidence that supports the existence of a spiritual component that suggests that patient’s outcomes can be impacted by other people’s actions without their knowledge. In this third Era the patient’s health is impacted by their cultural and community affiliation and this present a challenge to the healthcare providers as they collaborate the care of the patient because there are some variables created by this intrapersonal relationship that is boundless and significantly affects the treatment plan and patient outcome unlike the...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Andrea Jones Western Governor University Professional Presence and Influence Introduction In the application of nursing and health services, different models are put in place to deploy such services to a nation’s community. The choice of the type to use depends on the workability and the situation at hand. Notably, coherent beliefs on health, healing, and illness affect personal healthcare habits and form the basis of the healthcare models (Dossey, 1999). The conclusions are mostly based on the cultures and are said to have existed since the ancient times in societies all over the world. Notably, the models serve one primary purpose of addressing the various illnesses that affect the human beings. However, they all aim at treating the common health conditions and problems that arise now and then. Such problems may include back pain, toe problem, or even headache. Moreover, as Dossey (1999) states, the way of treatment can be unique and different among societies and cultures across the world. It is by the virtue that we have techniques such as Susto that was vastly applied in Latin American nations. The era one nursing healthcare models is believed to have begun in the 1860s. The group used the old medicine procedures. In their mode of application, they tended to perceive the mind and the body as chastely physical, thereby chasing the sightless nature laws. The model was famously termed the mechanical model that saw the human being...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Rosemarie A. Richardson Western Governors’ University Introduction As humans we are constantly evolving. Our personal lives change as we grow older. We are constantly striving to help others understand who we are and how we create value. Our behavior and appearance communicate a mental picture that others observe and remember. Likewise, our professional presence as nurses can either introduce feelings of confidence or produce feelings of uncertainty. In essence, we are shaped by our experiences, and the experiences in nursing are sometimes so intense that we are changed by them. Professional Presence Nurses walk between two worlds, the material world of a scientist and the creative world of an artist. Koerner (2011). As nurses, our professional presence creates a window of what it means to be human by how we continue to care for each other. The emergence of new diseases, rapid increase of chronic illnesses opened the door for Dr. Larry Dossey a noted physician to introduce and provide his framework for Western medicine. In this framework, he focused on three areas of health and healing. The Mechanical /physical body (Era1), The Mind/Body (Era 2), and The Body/Mind/Spirit (Era 3). The Eras most significant to me are those of Era I and Era3. Era I also known as the Mechanical Era (1860’s) viewed health and illness as physical in nature. It was felt that a person’s consciousness was a by-product of the chemical, anatomic, and physiological...
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