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  • Essay / Patient Interview Assessment - 569

    For my interview, I decided to interview someone who thought they might be pregnant. During the patient interview, there were many things I should not have done. When I welcomed the patient into my office, I did not close the door behind her and so all the noise from outside came in and it was difficult to hear what she was trying to tell me. There was also a lack of privacy, a lack of confidentiality; because everyone could know everything about patients' problems. I wasn't very professional during the interview because I wasn't wearing appropriate clothes, I just had casual, everyday clothes on, and I thought I should have worn something smarter. I needed to prepare much better for my interview because I should have written down the questions I was going to ask the patient, better planned out what I was going to do, and written an explanation of everything I was doing for the patient. the patient's questions, I didn't speak very clearly because she couldn't hear me well and I should have had an ex...