Communication Methods in Neonatal Intensive Care and Discharge Planning for Suicidal Patients

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Introduction
The essay will address the different methods in which health staff communicates with the
patient in relation to the two types of hospital environment that include neonatal intensive
care and discharge planning in a suicide attempt patient. The essay obviously shows the need
for communication skills in the healthcare sector. There is a specialist ward in neonatal
intensive care with the special team of doctors and nurses to take care of new sick or
premature babies. In the suicidal patient discharge planning, there is a need for the healthcare
staff to create risk assessment and management plan that can assist the patient get better.
A big proportion of patients who commit suicide are seen to have psychiatric disorders at the
time of their death. It is therefore essential for the healthcare practitioners to recognize the
signs and symptoms of the psychiatric disorder that is usually connected with suicide. This
can be done by the healthcare professionals by deciding the magnitude of suicidal thinking in
the patients in order to provide appropriate therapy.
Discussion
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
A very nice therapeutic relationship with the client was created by the health care
staff. This helped the client understand how much stress she experienced as her baby was
admitted to the Intensive Neonatal Care Unit (NICU). At that moment, too, her husband was
not present with her and this was a enormous part of her life's stress. The health professional
very beautifully connected the lack of assistance in her lives with the level of depression she
was experiencing (Al Maghaireh et al., 2016). This helped healthcare staff show a patient-
centered strategy that is much needed for parents whose kids are admitted to the NICU. For
the parents, patient-centered strategy is very essential because they tend to be at a critical
mental level that may hamper their mental peace and trigger anxiety and panic attacks

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(Russell eta l., 2014). A child's admission to NICU is very painful for both parents as they
feel isolated when they are at the hospital with the kids. The health care practitioner showed
consideration, empathy and genuineness while speaking to the client as she asked her
questions such as whether the client was tired or not as she was waiting for the whole day at
NICU. This created a feeling of confidence in the client's mind as she could feel that the
counsellor was truly worried about her. The counsellor even proposed that the client should
call someone from their family and friends who could comprehend her condition and even
emotionally help her through these stressful weeks and months when her child was admitted
to the hospital (Al Maghaireh et al., 2016).
The practitioner's body language used was very congruent. It showed that the
healthcare personnel were concerned about the situation of the client and wanted to assist her.
That's why she even gave some suggestions that could lead to a reduction in the depression
the client is facing. The staff also used a number of skills to effectively communicate with the
client, as they asked the clients a number of questions and also gave some advice that could
help her out of the stress (Ramezani et al., 2014). At the moment of counselling, there were
no noise obstacles that could interfere with efficient interaction as the health professional was
highly ethically skilled and had any preconceived concept about the customer. This assisted
her to create a customer bond as there was no psychological, private, physical or
physiological obstacle between them. This made communications even more efficient.
If I were the health practitioner then I would have held a periodic conference between
the nursing employees working at the NICU and also between the parents as this would be
useful to both of them. In this manner, the employees can interact regularly with the parents
and the parents can also understand their child's advancement (Schulman et al., 2015). If
there was a need to develop cultural sensitivity then I would have respected their views and
traditions to prevent it from becoming an obstacle to the child's therapy. Cultural skills in