SBAR Research

Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

(UNISA 2016) He then underwent emergency surgery for an arthroplasty, resurfacing the joints in his hip. The role of effective listening and administering communication is one of the strongest building blocks of interpersonal relationships between nurses and their patients. Professional therapeutic interactions are based on problem solving. While receiving a message from a patient, nurses are also trying to determine its core meaning by breaking it down. (Kozier & Erb) While sending a responsible answer to a patient, registered nurses should also be thinking about their gestures and the effects it’s going to have on the other person. (Kozier & Erb) Building these type of communication skills supports contribution to delivering safe care in complex or critical care situations. (Riley 2014, p.10) Being a future registered nurse in the Emergency Department needs to reflect highly effective communication from the recipient to the receiver to understand his pain. This is the Orientation Phase where registered nurses are verbally interacting with Thomas, reassuring him at all times and on possible request, contacting his wife or family with this information. Before this all happens, however, therapeutic care starts with Pre Interaction and where nurses are delivering treatment on the information that has been given from

The nurse must not be afraid to question the physician orders if he or she knows that the patient is declining. A nurse should always notify the charge nurse or supervisor for assistance in this situation. However, having precise, clear and accurate information to report will help with the process of communication. A nurse must always be assertive and display an attitude of confidence when reporting concerns to a physician, especially if that physician is difficult (Gessler, Rosenstein, & Ferron,

Effective communication is one of the utmost characteristics of a high-quality health care model that responds to the existing needs of the general population. However, communication may sometimes be taken for granted and therefore fail to relay important information between health care providers within the interprofessional team. In today’s health care setting, communication is particularly challenging due to the limited time constrain in the workplace. In spite of the utilization of existing charts and documentation, errors are made. In this paper, a real life clinical scenario is discussed which involved a breakdown of

Missed or ineffective communication can have severe consequences to the life of a patient. A patient’s clinical condition can deteriorate very quickly and the ability to communicate nursing assessment data rapidly and in a way that will be effectively received can

Nurses should feel empowered to pilot methods to improve efficiency of patient monitoring, utilizing nursing judgment to guide management of parameters in order to prevent alarm fatigue and patient harm.

In my voluntary work as a first aider, I often need to make critical decisions based on assessing both seen and unseen signs and symptoms regarding someone health, while in the clinic I need to consider longer-term judgments about someone's wellness. The ongoing structured training I have undertaken and adhering to guidelines means that I can make these decisions in s consistent, fair and repeatable manner, which keeps everyone safe. Having an understanding of evaluating the short-term or long-term outcomes according to established or agreed criteria, is crucial to decisions based on assessing evidence.

The assignment will be written in the style of the British Journal of Midwifery (BJM), the abstract is incorporated into this introduction and Harvard 2014 will be used for the referencing style.

Wilkinson, J. M., & Treas, L. S. (2016). Fundamentals of Nursing (3rd ed., Vol. 1). Philadelphia, PA: F.A.

Bernadette Ward RN, Midwife, Grad Cert Ed, MPHandTM, MHlth Sci Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia. B.Ward@latrobe.edu.au Glenda Verrinder RN, Midwife, Grad Cert Higher Ed, Grad Dip Pub and Com Health, MHlth Sci Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia.

Nurse-patient communication requires an understanding of the patient and the experience they may encounter. Good communication is not based on the abilities of a nurse, but their education and experience they may have. Nurses must devote their time to the patient when communicating necessary confidentiality and the nurses should not forget that communication should include who is surrounding the sick person and

Parameters of this review include literature researched has not considered remote geographical areas such as developing countries, only western based, English research has been evaluated. This is a nurse focused review so literature involves nursing input. Search engines used were google scholar, science direct, The BMJ, PubMed and ProQuest. Literature used does not date past 2004, except for one from 1999 which is proving a

There are fewer interactions between nurse and patient due to nurse patient ratio. In public hospital it can be overcrowded leading to increase in nurse workload resulting in time limit and not communicating with patient. Some nurses are there physical but not mentally due to lack of motivation or personal problems . To be a nurse you need to love it in order to provide high quality care. Esmaeili and her team also found out that some physicians self centred they do not think of the patient and for the nurses to provide good quality care their need the whole team to participate.They also found out that some patient are not satisfied with care due to poor quality scope of the nurses as they can not provide solutions to some problems. There is lack of holistic view as this includes focusing on patient and their family’s needs also resolving patient’s issues during hospitalisation and after discharge. Other nurses needs to up date their knowledge and practice (Esmaeili, Cheraghi and Salsali, 2014). Hills found out that sometimes communication can not happen due to tight schedules of nurses, working with difficult patient and staff shortages There is still some health team members who still believe in hierarchy so they do not think its necessary to share or communicate with low ranking staff resulting in errors being

Medical errors and adverse health outcomes are associated with poor and inadequate communication in healthcare teams. In terms of communication styles and habits, nurses and physicians are trained conflictingly. Nurses are taught to be descriptive and wordy in their communication with their patients. However, physicians and doctors alike, are trained to be succinct and straight to the point (Foronda, MacWilliams, & McArthur,

The Hospital environment can offer some practical challenges that could be barriers in communications. Many patients have individual needs and this can impede on a nurses time and emotions. Nurses put in long hours and have a high patient/nurse ratio or shortage of healthcare workers. Nurses/personnel have to deal with emergencies in an already challenging and busy hospital setting. Dealing with patients takes mental acuity and emotional support and sensitivity. Hospital guidelines might not have sufficient communication practices among personnel in place.