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Effective communication in patient care

   

Added on  2021-04-21

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Running head: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN PATIENT CAREEffective Communication in Patient CareName of StudentName of UniversityAuthor Note
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1EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN PATIENT CAREIntroduction:Effective communication is very important in a healthcare setting to ensure patient safetyand minimize risk of clinical malpractice (Doyle, Lennox & Bell, 2013). This article aims toreview research articles to understand the effect of communication between healthcare givers andpatient as well as their families and its effect on the patient health. Five articles are chosen, eachproviding different perspective into the research question.Mazor, K. M., Beard, R. L., Alexander, G. L., Arora, N. K., Firneno, C., Gaglio, B., ... &Walsh, K. (2013). Patients' and family members' views on patient‐centered communicationduring cancer care.Psycho‐Oncology,22(11), 2487-2495.Patients suffering from cancer require comprehensive treatment and care. Multiple healthcare givers are involved in the treatment process and the ordeal impacts the psychological andphysical health of both the patient and their family (Wadhwa et al., 2013). The uncertainty of thedisease also negatively impacts the patient’s family. It is important to establish a propercommunication with the patient the scientists conducted secondary data analysis of qualitativedata of 137 patients or family members with cancer, who were interviewed and discussed abouttheir perceptions on cancer and how the current care plan can be improved. The results showedthat patients as well as their family members wanted a more sensitive approach to their care plan,any queries they have regarding the condition or care plan and understanding their mental state.This was important for the patient and their family to provide the proper cooperation. The studyconsists a mix of both secondary and primary data as well as effective data analysis plan whichsupports their research question.
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2EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN PATIENT CARECurtis, J. R., Back, A. L., Ford, D. W., Downey, L., Shannon, S. E., Doorenbos, A. Z., ... &Arnold, R. W. (2013). Effect of communication skills training for residents and nursepractitioners on quality of communication with patients with serious illness: a randomizedtrial.Jama,310(21), 2271-2281.This article tries to find the effect of communication skills in healthcare givers and how itaffects the outcome of patients with serious illness or end of life conditions. The objective of thescientists was to assess the effectiveness of good communication skills in interventional processfor administering internal medicine and its effect on patient/ family care outcome. The scientistsset up a randomized clinical trial to study 391 internal medicines practitioners and 81 nursingtrainees at the University of Washington and Medical University in South Carolina, from 2007 to2013. They analyzed the trial by evaluating the results of two scenarios, reported quality ofpatient communication and quality of end of life care. The assessment was done in aquestionnaire form, the results of which seemed somewhat average but also instances were notedwhere the lack of good communication skills amongst the care givers lead to depression inpatients and their family members, especially in end of life conditions, where the practitionersand nurses failed to provide proper intervention based engagement. The article is quitesystematic to its approach to address the research question. The primary data sample is quite highand has long observational period to collect the amount of data. The article lacks secondary datasupport, but the primary data analysis section is promising and the outcome seems to prove theimportance of good communication skills in practitioners and nurses can provide proper careeven in end of life conditions.
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