Proper Communication Is Key To A Successful Interaction

This made me nervous as to how I was going to communicate with her. My mentor stood back in order to allow me to administer the medications and I felt unable to ask the question, “How do I communicate with this patient?”

A day in the life of a veterinary technician may include answering clients’ questions, providing written or verbal instructions regarding care of an animal, answering the telephone,

Explain why effective communication is important in developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults.

Communication is primarily an exchange of information, ideas, or thoughts. This paper will focus on the process of verbal and nonverbal communication as well as the components of each. It outline the formal and informal channels of criminal channels. This paper will also list the different barriers to effective communication within a criminal justice organization. Finally it will cover strategies that can be implemented to overcome communication barriers within criminal justice organizations.

McCabe C. (2004) Nurse-patient communication: an exploration of patients’ experiences. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 13, 41-49.

There is a range of communication technology aids available, including devices known as Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCA) and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). VOCA are dedicated to communication and may not have any computer functions. AAC devices are either symbol or text based. There are also communication software that can be added to a computer, mobile phone or PDA to enable a person to type what they want to say and play it back so others can hear what was typed.

For this question I am going to explain strategies used in health and social care environments to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions.

My clinical day of week 3 started pretty much with the same routine. I had to shadow a CNA preceptor and helped her throughout her assignment. By late morning, I have encountered a patient that at first refused to have a conversation with me despite my efforts of searching the right therapeutic questions that will make her open up to me. I founded the situation to be a little bit frustrated and made me feel unsuccessful that I was not be able to form a relationship with the patient. I did not know what to do or what to say. She just kept staring outside the window without saying anything. At lunch time, she surprised me when she approached me and expressed her apology for her earlier behavior.

As a nurse, communication is an essential and important factor to building a therapeutic relationship between a nurse and patient as it is the difference between average and excellent nursing care, as it helps maintain a good quality of life and allows nurses’ and patients to interact and provide comfort when needed. The importance of good communication can become apparent with patients especially when they are in the hospital, as it helps the nurses build a positive relationship with patients and helps overcome barriers including physical, psychological and social. A therapeutic relationship is built on many factors which include both verbal and non-verbal communication which helps maintains the relationship and strengthens it due to the positive impact it has not only on the patient’s experience but also the nurse’s.

* Body Paragraph #3 - Differentiate appropriate levels of self-disclosure and emotional intelligence in various relationships.

V.S’s mother died in 2011, at the age of 73 from a myocardial infarction, and her father died at the age of 89, from complications from Alzheimer’s. Her husband passed in 2008; he lived through a ruptured aortic aneurysm, and then died from sepsis following a hernia surgery. She has 8 siblings, all living. She has three children (ages 30, 40, and 42) who are all healthy. She has five grandchildren, and one great grandchild. There is no known family history of hypertension, diabetes, or cancer. See genogram that follows…

Being able to communicate both verbally and non-verbally is a key factor in creating a therapeutic relationship with the client. Throughout the nurse-client interaction the nurse showed verbal and non-verbal behaviors that did not follow the guideline that The College of Nurses of Ontario (2006) has laid out for nurses to follow. A few of the guide lines are; trust, empathy, and power. From the moment the nurse entered the room she did not look at the client at all and never introduced herself or told him why she was there. The client had to ask “No doctor?” (Video, 2008) for her to finally say anything. By her not introducing herself she has already diminished the first impression that the client has of her and has lost his trust. Introducing themselves to the client by name and category is one the most effective communication

As first year nursing students, we have been introduced to concepts that are fundamental to our professional development as future nurses, such as interpersonal understanding, and interpersonal communication. In fact, understanding the importance of interpersonal communication during different stages of the therapeutic relationship between a nurse and a client is one of our main learning objectives. As a result, we have been assigned to perform a standardized patient scenario interview with an actor in order to demonstrate our communication skills through three different stages of the therapeutic relationship: the interaction phase, the working phase, and the resolution phase. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze my own performance during the interview process, and identify my areas for growth and my areas of strength in the communication techniques.

This is an interesting topic to discuss. I worked at nursing skilled facility for about a year and half and I was on both sides: receiving and sending a patient. I think as a nurse, we have to respect each other whether you work in ED, rehab, nursing home or home care. Sadly, the study from Dr. King and Dr. Kind showed negative consequences from ineffective communication as you experienced it also. In your case, that was not only about ineffective communication, but also an attitude problem because you overheard what they talked. It is a different case if the ED nurse doesn’t know the patient, because as we know, in ED, patient come and go in 24 hrs. So, perhaps, it was on shift changed then, the incoming nurse barely knows about the patient

Communication is the foundation of all contact and involves much more than just words being spoken. The skills of a good communicator must be practiced and developed with relative frequency. Participants in a high-quality communication conversation are engaged in choosing a communication channel, sending clear messages, listening actively, and understanding others’ responses. When considering the one-way communication that occurs in media through various artists and communication professionals, we must recognize the importance of varying communication approaches.