Communication in Nursing - Articles

Running head: COMMUNICATION IN NURSING

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Introduction
Communication in Nursing refers to the exchange of information, feelings and thoughts
among individuals with the help of different means of communication. Communication plays a
very important role in nursing and health care since it has got application in treatment,
prevention, rehabilitation and also therapy and health promotion. In therapeutic practise,
communication involves a two-way process where the patients express their feelings such that
the nurses can make a correct diagnosis (Sheldon, Barrett & Ellington, 2006). Therefore the
articles selected for this study will discuss about the role of communication in healthcare and
nursing practice.
Article 1: André, B., Nøst, T. H., Frigstad, S. A., & Sjøvold, E. (2017). Differences in
communication within the nursing group and with members of other professions at a
hospital unit. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(7-8), 956-963.
The main aim of the article is to understand the difference between communication
between the nurses themselves and the communication between the nurses and other professional
of the healthcare sector (Bramhall, 2014). One of the major reasons behind this study is that there
is lack of interdisciplinary collaboration between the healthcare professionals in hospitals
irrespective of the efficacy. For the course of this study, a survey was conducted with the
healthcare professionals, and as a result differences in communication were found out based on
six major factors (André et al., 2017). High scores were obtained by the nurses in acceptance,
engagement, empathy and caring when nurses communicated with other nurses whereas the
nurses obtained a low score in these factors while they communicated with other professionals
from the healthcare sector. Hence from the results of the survey, it could be interpreted that the