Engagement

Another aspect of what we are doing is engaging with our patients. By stilling the mind, listening, seeing and talking with our patients, we connect with them. We enter and understand their world and we invite them into ours.We use all the tools of our trade, be it nursing, medicine, naturopathy or any other, plus all our other skills as a human being, to learn about our patients. The more we can learn about them, the better we can enter their world.As the mind stills this process becomes more efficient. As thoughts subside, intuition is more free to act. For example I recently went into a new patients room and said to the family “You look like people who have spent too much time in hospital.” And in turned out that indeed the whole family has been at the grandmother’s bedside in ICU for 2 days. And we connected with a better understanding of what was going on for them.As we connect with the essence of the patient, not the chest pain in room 3 or even Joe Smith, but really commune