I have over 30 years of experience working with patients in various healthcare settings and my work has been particularly focused on helping them build effective communication between clinicians and patients
I can vividly recall when my dad bid me farewell as I departed my home country of Nigeria to the United States of America 30 years ago. Growing up in Nigeria, my parents provided a very close family unit and instilled a sense of belonging in my six siblings and me. However, for reasons still unbeknownst I was always an anxious child and my overwhelming incessant curiosity to unravel the intentions and thoughts behind various human behaviors did not help curb my own anxieties as a child.
It rather created a heightened state of awareness and self-imposed expectations to do everything humanly possible to assist others to feel comfortable in my presence. I observed early as a child that when I was able to assist others around me to feel comfortable, then I in turn felt comfortable around them. It was a eureka moment and simply a win-win situation.
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I have gathered a 30 year memory on the physics of communication within and outside the healthcare environment. More than anything these experiences have left me with one important impression – that people are different and it’s a powerful gift to embrace this diversity. In it lies the essence of genuine heart to heart communication.
I signed on to become a nurses’ assistant and in a Brooklyn subacute facility, I encountered the first series of events that reaffirmed my lifelong commitment to aid patients and healthcare providers to reduce anxieties and build trust in healthcare settings. I realized that as a nurses’ assistant I was able to interact easily with patients but as I later advanced in my career to become a licensed practical nurse, a registered nurse, and currently a family nurse practitioner, conversations with patient became more strained. This discovery led me to put on my thinking cap once again and attempt to unravel a series of WHY’s. Why are we reserved? Why do we feel reserved and thus find it difficult to openly interact with others? Why is it difficult for some to attain the motivation and discipline which is needed to overcome existing reservations about others?
In retail clinic and Home care settings in New Jersey and Virginia
Assessment/Management of patients on anticoagulation therapy in outpatient and hospital settings. Performed Lovenox/Coumadin transitioning for safe pre and post-surgical planning.
Managed 3 floors in a 500 bed Nursing home and rehabilitation center.
Outpatient primary care setting for patients (birth to 21 years). Daily management for well child and episodic sick visits.
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, N.Y. Perform Staff Nurse duties in medical/surgical units per hospital protocol e.g. Develop patient centered plan of care, validate physician’s orders and administer medications and treatments. Supervise the nurse’s assistant roles.
Perform LPN duties in a Long-term care facility per policy. Establish individual patient’s nursing plan of care, validate physician’s orders and administer medications and treatments.
Dewitt Nursing Home, Brooklyn, N.Y. Assist the nurse’s in everyday patient care. Conversations with patients during activities of daily living as patient’s grooming, feeding, transport etc.
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This book analyzes the relationship between thinking, communication, and healing – as the 3 part process that brings about a healthy system in any person. Using a transdisciplinary approach, it explores the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) philosophy of language, linguistics, biology, and health science. This book is intended to help people within and outside the healthcare environment to understand the relationship between clear thinking, clear communication, and integral healing of a person.
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My journey and discovery of the effective ways for clinician-patient communication was quite a roller-coaster in the early stages of my career but it was worth it. I believe my story will serve as an inspiration to you. Visit my YouTube channel where I share help tips I have discovered in my process.
Join my explorative world where I use storytelling to break down the keys to effective communication. It begins with the decision to open up yourself to the liberation meaningful communication offers.
Join my weekly podcast show where I share help tips and nuggets that will help you improve your daily communication. The tips I share here are both relevant for healthcare providers and people from other professional backgrounds
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You don’t get to see Family Nurse Practitioners who truly understand the meeting point between emotion and healing. Nonye Aghanya has this unique way to truly give you that feel-at-home care.
Ósìnàkáchì Ákùmà KálùFounder & Secretary TAFFD’s|WAMS Academy Fellow|Fearism Award-Winning Author
I enrolled in one of the free courses that Nonye provides in Academy online platform, and it proved to be a very useful and professional one. Thanks a lot!!
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Every year I travel to different states. Meeting with with different families, individuals and healthcare professionals speaking to them on key issues concerning communication. Speaking on stage and on online platforms is one of my most important ways for raising peoples awareness. I’ve been featured on podcasts and many media outlets. I believe that on each occasion of public appearance where I share these discoveries I’ve made, I impact a life, I give someone else hope to live and a chance to make change.
