{"id":9616,"date":"2026-11-09T06:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=9616"},"modified":"2026-11-06T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:42:49","slug":"how-do-nurses-ease-patients-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=9616","title":{"rendered":"How Do Nurses Ease Patients\u2019 Nerves?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scarlet B. Moscoso ’28
\nEE\u00a0<\/em>Staff Writer<\/span><\/p>\n

Many patients seem to find healthcare frightening and let their anxiety consume them. This is the exact opposite of what people in the healthcare world, like nurses, want for their patients. Consequently, nurses seem to find themselves in these situations with people of all ages from infants to elderly. These numbers have ranged from 53% of the patients saying they feel nervous before an appointment to 79% feeling content and pleased with their experiences afterwards. Statistics and methods have shown how nurses have come a long way helping their patients go from suffering from anxiety to having a pleasant experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the first steps that nurses must assess is the level of their patients anxiety. For example, when a patient is fidgeting, when they have a rapid heartbeat, when they aren\u2019t focused, and\/or when they start to stutter. These are the most common signs that patients have shown over the past years. From these results their next step is to determine why their patient feels this way. There are many causes to the nervousness that patients feel before an appointment, whether it\u2019s an undiagnosed result, going into surgery, fear of conversations, or not being able to comprehend what their nurses say. Nurses, therefore, need to make efforts to help their patients rely and find comfort in them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nurses have tried countless ways to satisfy their patients. Some of these haven\u2019t been so successful but, with experience, they\u2019re finding more positive results. Nowadays nurses are trying methods such as active listening, meaningful conversations, allowing friends and family members to attend appointments, and building healthy relationships with their patients. Nurses have also noticed that patients need help navigating medical terms and need someone to listen to what they are saying about their confusions and concerns. Not only that but they also noticed that if they want their patients to open up to them they\u2019ll need to build a positive relationship where their patients can feel truly comfortable with them. Last, but not least, as soon as the patient enters the room nurses are quick to greet their parents while being extremely nice, making their patients feel welcomed. They continue doing this throughout the whole appointment as patients continue feeling welcomed and start to open up.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nervousness before an appointment is completely normal but being unable to communicate won\u2019t benefit anyone. This is why nurses are working really hard to help their patients overcome their negative feelings. Nurses need to be able to determine what is going on with their patients to provide the best care. However, this won\u2019t be easy if a patient feels too nervous and starts leaving out their feelings due to embarrassment. These actions have been taken to prevent a patient from feeling overwhelmed coming into an appointment unable to share information with their nurses. Although many may not notice, patients and even themselves might\u2019ve been too nervous to have a proper conversation with their nurses so that the nurse could provide them proper care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, as advancements continue the work nurses put in to break down the barriers of fear that the patients put up continues as well. In other words a nurse’s empathy to help patients comes in many ways like communicating and listening. These factors help provide high-standard healthcare. Therefore ensuring that a patient doesn\u2019t feel nervous about an appointment is a major factor that will continue to be built upon.<\/span><\/p>\n

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