Nursing Concepts
Group Activity
Staff meeting on Floor 2 of Nursing Facility. Issue is how to more effectively communicate with non-English speaking patients and their families, particularly on change of medication or procedural issues.
Type of Group
This was an informal group designed to begin the process of understanding how we can better communicate to non-English speaking clients and their families. It is likely that the group might evolve into a formal group with more structure and purpose.
Group Participants
In this meeting there were 6 individuals present. The Director of the Center, the Nursing Supervisor, the Charge Nurse for Floor 2, and three RNs. For the purposes of this analysis, we will label them DOC, NS, CN, RN1, RN2, RN3.
Goals/Purpose of Group
Recently, we have had several issues in which clients and their families did not have enough of a command of the English language to adequately communite appropriate changes in care, medication, tests, or needs. We realized that we do not have a system in place to handle all but the most basic linguistic issues, and then only on a more informal, ad hoc basis. The purpose of the meeting is to either develop a longer-term committee or recommendations for a fix to the issue.
Member Commitment
In this case, and fortunately, all members are committed to a proactive and positive solution to the issue. Everyone present at the meeting realizes that realistically, this is not a top-priority, because it does not impact the center daily or drastically reduce the type of care given. However, we all realize that in 21st century healthcare, populations are diverse and there must be procedures in place to ensure that the care model of nursing is followed and that we can advocate for the patient to our best ability, regardless of the linguistic barrier. We also realize that we cannot have a trained, in-staff,...
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