Healthcare Communication Ethics

The most striking part of this chapter for me comes from a labor of care. The authors say that “the labor of care require[s] admission of the illness” and that “it takes engagement of the labor of care to admit illness and then to take proper action” (Arnett, Fritz, and Bell, P 201). Since the labor of care is defined as the necessity of one’s identity, it is interesting to see that to effectively communicate one must first be true to oneself, as it is only then that one is capable of organically communicating with another.

The past couple of weeks have been extremely challenging for me, not only because of the stress of balancing school, work and married life, but also health wise. As a result I had to make the decision to skip a blog post and a response, making me lose 3 points. This is of course not ideal, but it was a necessity for me. I had to admit to myself that my health had to come first, and in order for me to be successful in the future I had to make sacrifices now. This was also an admission that led me to communicate more effectively by missing those assignments. If I had done those assignments in the state I was in, they would have been valueless, and would not have contributed to the thread we have been working on for months.