Search Strategy for Patient Communication in Healthcare

TEMPLATE ASSESSMENT 2: SEARCH STRATEGY
Student name & student number:
Patient
name
Step 1
explain
why your
patient is
at risk of
errors
occurring
while they
are in
hospital
receiving
nursing
care
Ruby Bell is a 4 years old child admitted to hospital with Gastroenteritis. Her parents could not stay with her in hospital as they have other children at
home to care for. Communication is the two-way interaction where feelings are shared both verbally as well as non-verbally. While treating the patient,
her age can be one of the greatest barriers as in this age, children cannot express their needs. At this age, she is unable to explain anything clearly and
due to this purpose, it becomes difficult for the nurses to understand the exact issues all the time as communicating with the patient becomes difficult
due to her age. If the communication process is not clear and the proper issues are not diagnosed then providing medications might be challenging for
the caregivers. The patient can be deprived from receiving proper care and therefore, age is the main barrier which can cause risk of errors such as
communication error, diagnostic error and medication error in this case (MacDonald-Wicks and Levett-Jones, 2012).

Step 2
Search
strategy
Screen
shot
attached
YES
The peer reviewed scholarly journal articles of less than 5 years have been selected in the search strategy. Also, the operator AND have been used in
this regard.
About the use of Boolean operators: (communication) AND (children) AND (healthcare)