week one, what a week

This week we learned about communicating as nurse, and what a large role commuicating plays in the world. We the talked about the verbal and non verbal forms of communicating. and for my service learning...well i have stressed about it, and that is it. i have some ideas, and our group is going to meet on monday and decided what we are doing. but i still am stressed because it is a big project.
With this disscusion in class, combined with class activites, it really made me think about how i communicate with other people. and after taking a good long look at me i realize that i dont communicate well. i really tend to shy away from alkward things or confrentation, and if i comtiue in this pattern as a nurse it could be destructive. so i know why were learning this, it is so when we need to tell someone something, they will get what we say and not something compleately different.
This service learning stuff im a little less clear on. i know why we are doing it, to benifit the community, and to help us learn how to interact with communities. but i just dont want to do it. but i know that once i get started on this it will be better, and it wont be hard to keep working.
Now What? i now commit to be an exellent communicator! im going to continue to develop my skills as a comunicator so no one can say they didnt know what i meant or anhything of the sort. this is a skill that will help me no matter what i do in life so i will likely use it forever, unless i have a bad stroke. but then i will just use non verbal communication. ok ok, if i was in a coma then i could not comunicate.
i have never really seen my self as the kind of person that is that involved with the community, and i dont imagine that i will be. i like the community, im just not to active in it. so i hope that this service learning "thing" will help me to learn how to interact with the community as a professional. and after i learn this i very well could never use it again.
well thats all for this week, until next week on HEALTHY DOUG, PROMOTING HEALTH. and yes i know i dont promote health in this blog, i just needed to have the phrase "promoting health" because the class is health promotion.