Total Physical Response and Communication Skills in Professional Nursing Practice

Total Physical Response and Communication Skills in Professional Nursing Practice

Introduction

Ascertaining that nurses may practice in accordance with the theoretical reinforcement of their profession is comprehended as a significant factor in professionalism and is thus significant to recruitment and retention of the nursing staff. The achievement of high quality and professional health care necessitates that the expectations regarding professional nursing practice are made explicit. The effectiveness of nursing in the achievement of the outcomes for which they are responsible is allied inextricably to the extent to which they may practice the authority over delivering care. This paper presents the connotation, elucidation, and significance of total physical response together with effective communication skills in professional nursing practice.

Total Physical Response Professional Nursing Practice

Total physical response is a language method of teaching centred at the harmonization of action and speech; it facilitates in teaching language by means of physical activities. It was established by a professor of Psychology at San Jose State University, California, James Asher and it resorts to a number of conventions, counting in the humanistic pedagogy, learning theory, and developmental psychology, together with the procedures of teaching language which were suggested by and Dorothy Palmer. Total physical response is allied to the “trace theory” of memory in psychology according to which the more intensively or the more often a memory connection is trailed, the more firm will be the memory association and the more would be the probability of being recalled.

Retailing may be carried out vocally or in alliance with the motor activity. For this reason, mixed activities of tracing like the verbal rehearsal together with the motor activities raise the likelihood of successful and effective recalling. Total physical response is an example of the comprehension strategy for teaching language. The means and methods in the comprehension strategy focus on the significance of learning regarding the development of language, and don't necessitate the spoken outcome in the initial phases of learning. The students, in total physical response are not compelled for speaking. The teachers rather wait till the time adequate knowledge is acquired by the students by means of listening that they begin speaking impulsively (Larsen, 2000).

In the early phases of teaching, the students may rejoinder to the teacher in their own indigenous language. At the same time as most of the class time in total physical response is expended on listening comprehension, the absolute objective of the method is the development of the oral fluency. The most efficient means of the development of spoken language skills are the development of listening comprehension skills as derived from the literature. In total physical response, the lessons are arranged, with core emphasis on grammar, and specifically on verbs. The coaches generate commands on the basis of the vocabulary and verbs to be learned during that lesson. Nevertheless, the major focus in the lessons is on meanings that delineate total physical response from other methods based on grammar like the grammar ...