THE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

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Professional Communication
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Topic- The strategies of respectful, effective communication with an Aboriginal older older adult
and the family diagnosed with a terminal illness. Focus on the role of a nurse in communicating
with the patient and the patient family.
The palliative care is defined as a family centered care which is provided to a person
having a progressive, active and advanced disease with no prospect of cure and the person is
about to pass on soon. The palliative care also identifies and then treats the symptoms such as
physical, spiritual, emotional and social due to the fact that is founded on the individual needs.
The palliative care can be diverse and the term ‘end of Life’ suggests the care that will be given
in the last few weeks of life when a patient is having life limiting illness is approaching passing
in a rapid manner (Len Kelly 2020). While providing the person centered care to the aboriginal
people, it is significant to ask the person regarding their preferences of people who would be
involved in the discussions regarding their health care. This is because they may have one
decision maker or spokesperson that has to be involved in all these questions and the decision-
making about the care of the patient. It should be documented clearly in the record of the patient
in such cases. In this paper, the communication strategies for communicating with aboriginal
older adults and their families in the palliative care will be discussed along with emphasizing on
the role of nurses in palliative communication.
The time involved in the end of a person's life is quite precious and required to be fully
respected with the safe and responsive attitude having included the culturally appropriate ways.
The people of aboriginal origin sometimes have a number of customary practices to be
conducted before, during and after the passing of a person (Pcc4u.org, 2020).. These practices
are considered to be sacred for them and may not be discussed outside of their own community
widely. The palliative care is designed for assisting the health workforce that is aimed at

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providing care for the aboriginal people, their families along with the communities. It is aimed at
supporting the policymakers and provides explanations both in terms of accessing the resources,
researching and projecting. While delivering the service to the aboriginal people, the strong
community connection and their involvement are extremely required.
The engagement of the community can be done through partnering with the local services
involving elders from the communities in the program design and development of materials and
the exploration of the community palliative care requirements. For the aboriginal people, it is
extremely important to die at home or receive the care at home because they have some rituals
and ceremonies to practice at the end of life which are special for them (Rietjens et al.,
2017).Therefore, while treating the aboriginal older adults under palliative care, the intercultural
space and the world should be fully respected so that they can make connections with the service
providers. There should be open communication from the physician you should respect the
choices of the patient and treat them with compassion and kindness (Sealy et al., 2019).The
patient should be asked about what they would like to eat because as per the original culture is
found that offering food brings comfort to the dying person and it is an act of compassion
emotional healing and spirituality instead of the restrictive diets.
The cross-cultural care during death is a challenging Service Delivery where the
communication should be clear and the strategies should meet the family and the cultural needs.
There should be transparent communication respect proper environment for providing effective
service to the patients. Most of the patients usually die in hospital and this is culturally
appropriate for urban and rural patient food stuff table for the aboriginal people who are from
distant communities the death of a person in hospital signifies far from family and home and
being in an unfamiliar cultural aspect (Haun et al.,2017).. It can we say that contrasting styles of