The Importance Of Communication Skills

In the times that we currently live in, communities are becoming more diverse with new cultures and races. In the clinical setting, this is requiring medical professionals to be more competent with their patients. In addition to being competent, it is important to use active listening with your patients while interacting with them. Active listening shows the patient that you actually care about their well being and in turn will make them feel comfortable sharing private information with you.When actively listening to a patient, it is important that you maintain eye to eye contact and let them do a majority of the talking. If the patient says something that has little detail, ask them a probing question if necessary. This shows them that you're

Communication is so important in a healthcare and social care setting for a number of reasons. The patient and the healthcare professional need to understand each other clearly in order for the patient to receive the best possible

During my time shadowing physicians, I have realized that physicians need to be expert listeners in order to effectively assess a patient and fully understand their problems. I observed that the more a physician actively listens to their patients, patients trust their physician and can openly express any further troubles. My upbringing has given me the ability to be an effective listener. Raised in a quasi-conservative Indian household, I learned to carefully listen to everything my elders have to say. As a physician, I will take advantage of this skill to be an active listener for my patients and be able to better implement the appropriate treatment plans.

Effective communication is paramount when developing positive relationships with everyone we come across, whether it is a child, young person or adult. For children and young people it is very important that we use effective communication to help them learn and grow, the way we talk to children and young people and what we do with the information we gain from listening to their needs will have a huge impact on their learning experience. It is also important for the safety and wellbeing of children and young people we work with, we need to take any information given and use it to protect them whether they tell us something is wrong or there are other signs i.e tone of voice and body language, its important we know. How we communicate differs

Effective communication in the healthcare setting improves recovery rates and reduces pain and complication rates. (Wilkinson et al, 2003). Many complaints to the NHS are attributed to poor communication. Effective communication is reliant on the nurse working in partnership with the patient. It is essential that the nurse establishes a rapport and most of this will be achieved through the use of facial expressions. In my practice, it is important that develop a therapeutic relationship with the patients so that they can be able to put their trust in me. The therapeutic relationship is solely to meet the needs of the patient. In this relationship, there is a rapport established from a sense of mutual understanding and trust. To build a good nurse-patient relationship, I would have to show qualities of empathy, caring, sincerity and trustworthiness. During practice, if I am approaching a patient and the patient looks anxious, I should approach with empathy.

Active listening can be significantly impact a persons’ healthcare experience. When your only interaction with your caregiver occurs when they are obtaining clinical information from you, you can start to feel detached from your identity; one can feel more like an object than a subject. Jim Mulcahy expresses the profound effects non-evaluative active listening can have on someone through his own experiences in the healthcare system. Based on Mr. Mulcahys reflection it is important to maintain a balance of professional and personal communication with patients. For Mr. Mulcahy this behavior helped facilitate and encourage his recovery. Active listening is a gateway to developing a deeper understanding of patients’ feelings, and can help them

Supporting this concept, Juve-Udina et al. (2014) proposed that active listening and silence were important communication strategies in this point of care since they helped to establish this 'safe environment' where patients can freely express their concerns and feelings. This particular strategy is meaningful towards patients of another culture since it relays the message that they are being heard and acknowledged despite the disparities they might feel due to differences in culture (Abdolrahimi, Ghiyasvandian, Zakerimoghadam & Ebadi, 2017). Evidence-based literature puts an emphasis on the importance of empathising with patients who experience inadequacies such as this; ensuring that action and communication initiated within the care helps to alleviate such negative feelings (Abdolrahimi et al., 2017). Entailing this trend of empathy includes the alteration of language used when communicating with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds (Gower et al., 2016). Gower et al. (2016) expressed that this includes simplifying the information provided in order to ensure that the patient has a certain level of understanding about the procedure, therefore, involving them within their

A skill that I learned from reading this book is the usage of verbal and nonverbal communications. In verbal communication within a health profession is that one must be careful of the way something is being said because the other person may interpret the wrong way and can lead to something that is the opposite. With is being said, “if we start to create rules about how to communicate we are in danger of taking away the natural, warm, and genuine way that people communicate with those in their care” (Pavord and Donnelly, 40). Having the natural, warm, and genuine way we speak with people can be beneficial in a sense that one should comply with the 6 C’s that was stated. Regardless if we know the person or not we should not make a prediction of what someone is feeling or doing, but instead one should ask a simple non-objecting question in a way that is simple and bold.

The use of effective communication is essential to being able to develop positive relationships with children, young people and adults. Communication comes in many forms verbal and non-verbal it is important when working with children and other adults we use the appropriate methods of communication relevant to the individuals needs taking into account their age, ability, ethnicity and religion. For example: when working with very young children it can be the first time they have been away from their families, it is important to form a positive relationship from the start where they can trust and feel safe and they may require more physical interaction such as a reassuring cuddle. Meeting other adults and children can be very daunting. Positive

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the different interdisciplinary methods of patient-clinician communication. This topic is important to me because having the ability to be effective in my communication results in satisfaction, fulfillment, quality, safety, contentment, and peace. After writing this paper I hope to learn the many different techniques and skills to increase and sharpen my level of communication. I hope this new knowledge will inspire me to continually keep an open mind, while being considerate, to all the different channels of communication that can be implemented into my practice. Nurses need to know the benefits of communication because in our profession we interact with patients during their most vulnerable states. Further more, these patients are frightened, embarrassed, frustrated, ashamed, and at times, lost. They are not capable of clearly articulating their needs and wants because of the encumbrance of emotions they are experiencing. Through effective communication of engaging listening and continual reflection we can help these patients express their feelings. Helping the patient to feel comfortable, safe, and in control will start the establishment of a trusted relationship allowing nurses the opportunity to make a difference.

Communication is critical in health care to both providers and patients. Effective communication can save people’s lives and help to make a provider more successful in their practice. The essential elements in communication apply to both basic communication and communication within health care. However, there are additional components needed to effectively communicate in health care such as preparedness, friendliness and sensitivity. Providers can inspire confidence in patients that may be reluctant to communicate and help them to communicate openly by developing a patient-centered approach. A patient-centered approach will also assist in dealing with cultural differences more successfully in the health care environment. Patient-centered

Being a professional means to have an excellent level of education, follow regulations and policies, keeping patient's information confidential, making them feel safe and also keeping patients feeling relaxed. A professional is considerate, respectful, honest, determined to be the best nurse that they can be, conduct endless professionalism, be compassionate and also have a caring manner. Being health professional, it is also important to understand the different phases of the therapeutic relationship. Maintaining a Therapeutic relationship with a patient is important to build trust and to also communicate well with them. Within this essay, verbal and non-verbal communication will also be discussed as it is a crucial part of maintaining a therapeutic relationship with any client that has any needs. Mary Young from Horizon Hospital is a 71-year-old Indigenous woman who was recently admitted to the hospital from experiencing an ischaemic Stroke (City of Horizon 2018). Mary is also experiencing left side hemiparesis and has slight paralysis on the right side of her body. When Mrs Young was a child, she was diagnosed with Chronic Otis Media, which has led to hearing deficits currently. As the nurse for Mrs. Young, it will be essential to form a therapeutic relationship with verbal and non-verbal communication to ensure that she gets the most effective care possible.

In all setting there are stumbling blocks to communicate ,but in the health care setting ,any deterrent can be magnified .Disease ,illness ,strange environment and presence of unfamiliar people are various foreign terms and procedures that can discard communication tremendously (Josephson,2004).That’s why it is so important for a nurse or any health care personnel to practise and use best communication skills possible(Josephson,2004).Therapeutic communication is the interchange between individual that result in desired and mutually agree upon outcome. The nurses takes responsibility for the interaction and the clients also takes priority over the nurses need. In this way the nurses maintains professional boundaries and confidentiality .A

“The quality of your communication is the quality of your life”-Tony Robbins. How motivating. It should be because Tony Robbins is a very famous and successful motivational speaker. This quote couldn’t be more true. Good communicators have a very successful life and in order to master communication, one must understand communication theory. According to the text, Introducing Communication Theory Analysis and Application, communication is defined as “a social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment”. There are many different definitions of communication, but all communication definitions explain the process of transmitting information, the framework of the information, and the effects of that information. Understanding communication theory can be very rewarding and very beneficial to people’s personal and professional lives. It can help with public speaking, interviews, relationships, and so much more. The world is always changing, which means communication is too. Taking a communication theory class helps students make sense of the world around us, express our wants, needs and desires to others in an appropriate manner.

Within the therapeutic setting, active listening is an exceptional tool for a health care professional. Active listening is so helpful that some may argue is it more than just a tool for success, it is a necessity for success. Active listening in a therapeutic setting helps a heath care professional more deeply and holistically assess the patient's physical, mental, and emotional state. Active listening will help a physician, for example, sense how a patient's medical history influences their current perspective regarding certain forms of treatment. In therapeutic settings that service a very diverse population, active listening helps prevent and