Effective Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Strategies in Nursing

Literacy and
Communication for
Health Care

Introduction
The primary purpose of the paper is to identify and analyze the effective verbal
and non-verbal communication strategies adopted by the nurse to treat Mr.
Perkin. This analysis will be helpful for prospective nursing students or fellow
nursing students to develop their communication skills that will be helpful in the
future. Therefore, it will be helpful in making future plans to enhance various
communication strategies.
Thesis statement
The importance of Nursing Progress Note and the use and need of grief and loss
communication framework in Mr. Burnum Perkin’s transition care.

Analysis of Verbal communication strategies
adopted by the nurse
 Mr. Perkin is given a proper explanation regarding the immediate
care needed
 The nurse explained to him about the planned care
 The nurse spends time with Mr. Burnum
 The nurse makes use of credible, consistent, concise and clear
words to communicate with the patient (Pehrson et al., 2016)
 The nurse pay close attention to Mr. Perkin and listen to him
carefully

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 The nurse participates effectively in the meeting to understand
Mr. Perkin’s condition
 Verbal communication helps in building co-operation,
collaboration and relationship with Mr. Perkin
 It makes use of intervention strategy to solve the problem and
give relevant information
 The nurse delivers the message by adopting socio-economic,
culture and language status of Mr. Burnum (Holm & Dreyer,
2018)