Question

why does narrative competence recognize singularity?

Answer 1

why does narrative competence recognize singularity?

Human beings create narrative (tell stories) to give meaning to our chaotic experience of time. It gives us access to history and our communal past and allows us to imagine the future. Narrative meets the seemingly universal human need to lay out experiences and put experiences together so that they have a beginning, middle and end.

Narrative competence is the entire set of skills involved in the ability to identify, listen to, tell, understand, be touched by and act on the stories that one is exposed to. Simply put, it’s the ability to take in and understand stories, and the ability to tell them.

Imagine, though, the professional service provider with narrative competence, who can sit down and hear a client’s story, start to finish, with the understanding that every piece of work, every transaction, every service provided comes out of a story and will become part of the client’s story.

To be able to hear a story is to make room for the person who is telling it. The simple act of exercising narrative competence and listening to a client’s story will confirm for the client that the service provider is interested in more than the work or the service or the transaction – that he or she is truly interested in the client and all of the client’s objectives and issues. From this place, the service provider will be well-positioned to deliver a service that truly meets the client’s needs , needs that are spoken and expressed, and those that can be gleaned through the message in the client’s narrative.

As professional service providers develop the skill of listening to clients’ stories, they themselves will become a positive part of those stories ,with their virtues “told” to others by the client as part of the next narrative.
The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others.' In Charon's opinion, if to reclaim a new model of medical practice, the proposed model is the medical act performed with narrative competence, therefore narrative medicine is the suggested path to better patient-doctor communication

Narrative medicine
Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. With narrative competence, physicians can reach and join their patients in illness, recognize their own personal journeys through medicine, acknowledge kinship with and duties toward other health care professionals, and inaugurate consequential discourse with the public about health care. By bridging the divides that separate physicians from patients, themselves, colleagues, and society, narrative medicine offers fresh opportunities for respectful, empathic, and nourishing medical care.

Sick people need physicians who can understand their diseases, treat their medical problems, and accompany them through their illnesses. Despite medicine's recent dazzling technological progress in diagnosing and treating illnesses, physicians sometimes lack the capacities to recognize the plights of their patients, to extend empathy toward those who suffer, and to join honestly and courageously with patients in their illnesses.

As the physician listens to the patient, he or she follows the narrative thread of the story, imagines the situation of the teller (the biological, familial, cultural, and existential situation), recognizes the multiple and often contradictory meanings of the words used and the events described, and in some way enters into and is moved by the narrative world of the patient

Narrative Competence Is the New Must-Have Skill for any Professional Service Providers.Thus, narrative competence recognize singularity or uniqueness in every field (e.g business, medicine, nursing, literature,psychology etc.) for better understanding, realise the facts, quality, conditions and for development.