Hospital Falls Fall Prevention Falls are the leading cause of hospital related injuries in the United States. There are many surprising factors that affect patients in regards to hospital falls; they involve patients of all ages and over a range of different scenarios. As a result the fall incident rate has been the target of the academic world and professionals alike as inpatient falls are serious patient safety and quality issues. Fall

Communication in a Nursing Environment This research paper deals with the subject of ensuring effective communication between nursing staff, their patients, and the patient's family. It is proposed that understanding and utilizing body language would be an effective way for a nurse to improve communication. The nature of communication and of the importance of body language in the communication process was researched, with a focus on how this can be used to

17. Johann calls you and says that Billy smells and he needs a shower. If you don't move Billy to another ward, Johann will sign himself out. Explain in details what you would do to resolve this cross cultural situation. I would tell Johann that we are doing all we can to ensure Billy's hygiene and that if his body odor continued to bother Johann that we can move him to

Communication in Healthcare: Crucial Conversations A crucial conversation which I was a part of recently involved an experience which concerned a patient going through end of life care. During this conversation I had to bring to the other nurse's attention the fact that some of her actions were offending the patient and the patient's family and that during this difficult time that really was not acceptable. For example, during the conversation

Measure Interdisciplinary Critical Incident Verbal Reports by Jacqueline Guhde The research article, "An Evaluation Tool to Measure Interdisciplinary Critical Incident Verbal Reports" by Jacqueline Guhde (2014) discussed and explored the use of an evaluation tool in assessing the communication effectiveness of nurses when relaying patient problem information to physicians in the hospital setting. In the research article, Guhde discussed the relevance of such an evaluation tool in improving effectiveness of

Healthcare Service Delivery Interpersonal communication in delivery of health communication Interpersonal communication is the form of communication that exists between two people and it is the type of communication that is deemed universal in many measures. Interpersonal communication involves the daily exchange which could be informal or formal in nature depending on the purpose and surrounding, it can take the form of facial expression, sounds, gestures, written words, spoken words and postures