Assignment: Personal Emotions Week1

Assignment: Personal Emotions Week1

Assignment: Personal Emotions Week1

Week 1 Discussion Forum Discussion Prompt #1 Reflect upon the survey you took. In your initial response, address some of the following questions. Explain your answers. Did you find it easy to make confident and decisive decisions with several strongly agree or strongly disagree answers, or did you select mostly moderate responses? Did any subject areas trigger personal emotions or issues? If so, do you feel you were able to remain objective? Were any of the decisions especially difficult to make? Did you employ any critical thinking or resolution strategies to determine a response? Did you rely on policy or legal parameters to make your decisions? Would you be comfortable making your answers to the survey public, or do you prefer anonymity? Have you dealt with similar situations and could you perceive similar situations occurring in your clinical practice? How might a moral inventory such as this survey impact your clinical practice? Please share additional thoughts as well. Discussion Prompt #2 Identify examples of active and latent errors. Provide examples from your clinical experience, if possible. How can such errors be avoided to support better patient care?

To start controlling your emotional triggers, choose three items from the list that most often set off your emotions when you don’t get these needs met. Be honest with yourself. Which three needs, when not met, will likely trigger a reaction in you? Identify the needs that you hold most dear.

It is critical to note that needs are not bad. The reason you have these needs is that at some point in your life, the need served you. For example, your experiences may have taught you that success in life depends on maintaining control, establishing a safe environment and having people around you who appreciate your intelligence.

However, the more you become attached to these needs, the more your brain will be on the lookout for circumstances that threaten your ability to have these needs met. Then your needs become emotional triggers.

At this point, you must judge the truth of the situation. Are you really losing this need or not? Is the person actively denying your need or are you taking the situation too personally? If it’s true that someone is ignoring your need or blocking you from achieving it, can you either ask for what you need or, if it doesn’t really matter, can you let the need go?

Without consciously acknowledging the need that is triggering the emotional reaction, we become enslaved to the need. On the other hand, if we honestly declare our needs—that we had expected people to treat us in a particular way and had hoped events would unfold as we had planned—then we can begin to see life more objectively. From this perspective, we are freer to choose our reactions.