Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Annie Trinh HCS 350 December 11, 2013 Litanya Simien-Robnett Personal and Professional Health Care Communication Communication is an essential component of professional nursing. The knowledge and utilization of effective communication among professional health care providers directly effects their patient health outcomes. It allows health care professionals to obtain and share crucial data, teach and express their thoughts and concerns. It is a mode of transportation to utilize knowledge and convey a plan of action for progress and improvement. It is a way for professionals to embody and project change, to make a difference.
Effective communication is an important part of functional society, but in the healthcare setting in which communication is of utmost importance, it seems to be facing the most challenges. Effective communication in healthcare is critical for the legal processes, effective management, correct diagnosis, correct care, and correct treatment. Healthcare communication takes place in two main settings: personal and professional. Effective communication in healthcare is essential for healthcare professionals, the patients, and the facility delivering care. Communication problems always had been considered a major concern in the delivery of health care.
The National Health Service (NHS) EoLC Programme emphasises the importance of education and staff development so that EoLC discussions can be facilitated between health care teams, patients and family members. However to facilitate this aim there is a need for a greater understanding of the exact nature of EoLC within critical care areas, how withdrawal of treatment processes are operationalized within differing critical care specialities, and what the roles of critical care nurses are within EoLC so that education and staff development can flow from empirical evidence. This study aims to explore the role of the critical
In health care ethical decisions not only affect the practice but the patients as well. Effect ACHE Standards on Ethical Decision Making The ethical decision standards of the ACHE need to be tough, this is necessary as these standards involve the entire health care network. The ACHE’s Ethics Toolkit provides the user with the assistance needed to influence values and strong ethics; it also helps develop additional ethical guidelines and insight into the appropriate ethical approach when needed. The American College of Health Care Executives expects health care professionals to adhere to a number of
Factsheet - Person Centered Planning Summary • Person Centered Planning is a way of assisting people to work out what they want; the support they require and helping them get it. • Person Centered Planning has the person at the center, is carried out in alliance with friends and family and is focused on getting real lives for people. • Person Centered planning plays a particularly important role in delivering objectives in the “Valuing People Now” document. What is Person Centered Planning? Person Centered planning is a way of enabling people to think about what they want now and in the future.
The use of brochures, forums, and social media will be available in the community to help identify barriers that affect health status, cognitive ability and social support. A multi level intervention can be implemented at the community level and lead to a more substantial and sustained changes (Clearly, 2012). These interventions will involve the community, the community nurse, and supportive organizations. Furthermore, involving the community nurse and partnership with the local, state, and national, dementia and Alzheimer’s organizations will help impact many families and as a result affect communities. Neis and McEwen (2011) suggest nurses must be
Over time the information will give us a good picture of how our practice has developed, what we use over and over again that seems to guarantee results and where we are struggling. From this we can identify any possible further training that could help, feel confident in the areas that are working well and be able to pass any useful methods onto others. Feedback from others is invaluable as often you see more when you are on the outside and it can often help to have another’s point of view. Feedback from others may come as a result of a performance review, a class observation or a general observation by a colleague. Reflective practice is essential to personal development and the goals and targets put in place at performance reviews can help to focus you and give you a renewed sense of ability to succeed and achieve.
1.1 Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting Legislation are put in place to protect people in work. Safe practice is important to the promotion of dignity in care. The Health and safety executive, Local authority trading standards and the care quality commission can all bring prosectuions against care providers who breach health and safety standards. The health and safety at work act 1974 covers a wide range of issues relating to the work place health, safety and welfare across different sectiors. Emoloyees have a general obligation under the act to take care of others a cooperate with employers' health and safety requirements.
Effective communication between patients and healthcare providers is a critical element to quality healthcare” (Healthcare Communication). Effective communication is essential when speaking with patients, other health care professionals, and families. According to Arnold and Boggs (2011), “Therapeutic communication is the primary means through which nurse and client exchange information about health matters, plan treatment approaches, reach
Successful communication between health care professionals and the patient is a vital component for enhancing patient compliance, satisfaction, and outcomes. Having and understanding of their disease process and its treatment and also feeling that the provider is involved regarding their care demonstrate