Communication With Patients: A Nurse's Dilemma

Reflecting on learning the importance of nursing documentation/record keeping and written communication. I recognise it’s one of many skill sets imperative to communicating with others, and needed to be effective in my field. Gaps in communication can be risky to patient’s continuity of care, and can lead to detrimental errors such as incorrect medication dosage or treatments, impinging on their safety. Further breaching the (NMC, 2015, C: 13-16), where it is a requirement to protect the public and patients. Poor record keeping would affect my competence, duty of candour and my ability to raise concerns. Further putting patient’s safety at risk. Therefore it is crucial to for records to contain

The interview was conducted with a registered nurse with more than 10 years’ experience. Her current role is working in the Medical Assessment and Planning Unit, in particular, the palliative care area. On a regular basis, her role involves providing safe and quality care to her patients, and more specifically end of life care. In doing so, two predominant skills of communication

Achieving the goal as a successful nurse is not easy as it requires not only a broad knowledge but also clinical skills (Raya 2006). One of the crucial factors leading to that is learning to create therapeutic relationships between health care professionals and patients through professional communication. This is long-term training since nurses must know how to apply different communication methods to help their patients with kindness and sincerity (Varcarolis 2005). The purpose of this study is to assess knowledge of how diversified communication types are used and their efficiency in building a therapeutic relationship.

Mr. Comer was admitted to his local community hospital for respite care. He has suffered multiple, acute strokes in the past, which has left him with severe disabilities. These include paralysis rendering him immobile, aphasia (speech loss) and dysphagia (swallowing difficulties). He relies on carers for all normal activities required for daily living (Roper et al 1996) and is advised to have a pureed diet and thickened fluids.

Communication is the way information is processed. In nursing communication is important because it’s the key to providing safe and effective patient care. According to Hood, (2014) “Mastery of communication skills is necessary for carrying out the mission of safe, effective, high-quality and nursing care to clients, families, and communities” (p.106).To be a successful nurse possessing great communication skills is vital.

Every day I encounter various situations that put my values and beliefs at risk. Reflecting on my experiences, is a journey I take to restoration while living in my truth. The scenario I recount in this reflection is a life lesson that has helped me personally and professionally.

The importance of communication is the essential foundation of nursing practise; it is primarily dependant upon verbal and non-verbal communication. Encompassing both speech and behavioural aspects, efficient delivery and receiving of the nurse-patient messages initiates advantageous relationships, or contrarily, generates significant repercussions if applied ineffectively, thus affecting the quality of the nurse-patient relationship. This essay will discuss how effective verbal and non-verbal communication in nursing practice will facilitate a mutually satisfying therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. It will firstly discuss verbal communication, followed on by the complementary non-verbal communication and lastly listening. However, for

How often does a registered nurse effectively communicates the medication and the rationale and or importance for taking the medication to their patients? I chose goal nine from the fifteen Patient Safety Goals created by the The Joint Commission on Accreditation and HealthCare Organizations. Goal nine, or NPSG.03.06.01, focuses on maintaining and communicating accurate patient medication information. Whether it is from the physician to the nurse or the nurse to the patient. Lack of proper communication often leads to medications errors. In fact, in 1999, the Institute of Medicine estimated approximately 7,000 deaths are caused by medication errors annually. This can be a mixture of not being competent with medications, not effectively communicating

Identify two means of communication that you use or have used in your nursing practice.

Prior to this discussion with Ms. Forks two nurses had been discussing how busy the ward is and how they needed extra beds.

Although there are existing English language proficiency tests approved by regulatory bodies to evaluate the language proficiency of IENs, the result does not usually correspond to the expectations of employers (Neiterman & Bourgeault, 2013). A stakeholder in the study of Neiterman and Bourgeault (2013) mentioned: “…And [often even if] they have passed their English assessment they are not seen as meeting the … level of functioning that the employer wants…” (p. 96). IENs who met the minimum qualifications to be considered as proficient in using the English language does not necessarily mean that they are already proficient communicating in the healthcare environment (Tregunno et al. 2009). Lum et al. (2015) indicated that communicating

Data collection regarding potential communication improvements on the acute psychiatric unit at the Alvin C. York VA medical center revealed an opportunity to improve nursing documentation. Specifically, the data collection process revealed an opportunity to improve the documentation of PRN effectiveness within the electronic medical record. PRN stands for pro re nata, which is a Latin phrase roughly translated as “as needed”. Therefore, prn medications can be described as medications that are taken as needed by a patient and are not typically administered on a regularly scheduled basis. PRN medication documentation is important to a patient’s care as the documentation of effectiveness provides useful insight for prescribers on whether or not a medication is useful and whether or not treatment should be adjusted.

One of the many concepts that were interesting was the Nurse Role as a communicator. Good communication skills are essential to every professions, careers and very important to developing a trustful Nurse Patient Relationship. We as nurses communicate with diverse of people every day, as we deliver or provide care, educations and information to our patients and their family. We must be able to provider information’s that are accurate and in a nonthreatening manner. Patients and family may have questions relate to their care, be it vaccine in this case, it is important not to only discuss the benefits but the risk of vaccines. Good communication will help the nurse not to be defensive when they question. Patients, family members and parents, might have being misinformed or received misinformation about vaccines however with good communications skills nurses get their massages about vaccinations across more clearly and effectively. In additional to developing quality-targeted communication to specifically address and improve vaccine uptake, vaccination and communication is an essential

Communication is an inherent requirement in nursing as it is an essential skill needed to ensure positive and effective outcomes. Communication can be described as transferring information through speech or other means. Nurses and patients must be able to process and understand the information been given to ensure effective communication (Kourkouta, L., & Papathanasiou, I. V., 2014, p.65). Communication can be divided into 3 groups, verbal, non-verbal, and written (Murdoch University, 2018). There are also different types of communication that can be used by nurses in specific types of situations such as therapeutic, interprofessional and intraprofessional, and etc (Levett-Jones, T., & Bourgeois, S., 2015, p.107). Nurses communicate

Modules Of Communication Communication is seen as verbal and non-verbal and is important within health care professionals and patient. Communication takes place when information is pass from one person to the next and is being interpreted (Webb 2011) when communicating with Mary verbal and non-verbal communication was used by using the Egan (2013) soler model of communication, posture was maintained, as the student introduced herself and at all time keep smiling as this was important for Mary comfort (Kraszewski and Mc Ewen, 2010) Mary was faced squarely and having good eye contact as this was important to keep Mary comfortable and relax with the student to build up a trusted relationship, which is a part of effective communication skills. The appropriate use of communication skills facilitates professionals to be more effective in their daily practice (Silverman et al 2005) this is highlighted as good communication skills which helps to build a therapeutic relationship between