Effective Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Strategies for Nurses

Mr. Burnum
Perkins’ Case
Name
Institutional Affiliation

Introduction
• The audience for this essay is the nurse.
• This is a nurse who wants to know the most effective verbal and
non-verbal written communication strategies to adopt to make sure
the readers fathom the present patient care status and the future
transition care of patient into Aged Care Facility (ACF).
• The nurse further wants to explain and justify how he would utilize
loss and grief communication framework for framing upcoming
transition of the grieving patient into ACF.

Effective Verbal and Non-Verbal
Written Communication Strategies
• Communication remains a human, interactive process which sends certain meaning, message,
information, emotions and beliefs from a person to another or to a group of individuals.
• Interrelationships and connected between and among the people take place as a result of
communication occurrence.
• Various forms of communication exists.
• It can take place via spoken words, written word, and body language alongside gestures that are oral,
written, and non-verbal communications (Basinger, Wehrman & McAninch, 2016).
• It remains imperative that constituents of every kind of communication are efficient and effective for
communication to take place and be effective.
• In the case of Mr. Burnum Perkins, the nurse has adopted therapeutic communication strategies to give
client support.
• She has adopted such techniques as, silence, focusing, active-listening utilizing open-ended queries,
exploring, reflecting, clarification, and offering self among other therapeutic communication strategies.

Effective Verbal and Non-Verbal Written
Communication Strategies Cont.
• Attentive and Active Listening strategy was adopted by the nurse as it is an
indispensable portion of communication.
• It is beyond hearing alongside attentive listening goes past merely being silent
while listening (Arnold & Boggs, 2019).
• Active-attentive listening is never a passive task since it encompass:
• The nurse’s hearing, processing alongside purposefully understanding the words of
Mr. Burnum Perkins’ words alongside processing such words in setting of his
scenario alongside non-verbal communication which client sends as he orally
express certain message to the nurse (Nielsen et al., 2017).
• Attentive and Active Listening strategy was adopted by the nurse as it is an
essential part of communication.