Question

How does effective communication apply to best practices with instruction both with colleagues and with families? Should an educator collaborate with peers when developing lesson plans? Should they share weekly instruction with families?

Answer 1

How does effective communication apply to best practices with instruction both with colleagues and with families?

- it will help in patient centered care

-this helps in understanding patient intentions, their requirement and this kept in mind helps in better planning of treatment, like planning for a surgery, the patient may not be prepared mentally or financially, once we have understood this we can either postponed the surgery if not an emergency or convince them the importance of emergency surgery.

- when communicated properly the patient understands and follow the treatment protocol leading to good patient outcome

-to become a good clinical nurse communication is very important

-interpersonal communication skills helps in making quality decision

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Should an educator collaborate with peers when developing lesson plans?

Yes, very important

The educator can include a variety of topics and this again improves the outcome of the planning

Should they share weekly instruction with families

Yes,

- the patient family will be anxiously about the condtion, what treatment is going on and what will be the outcome, so it is very important to listen to their queries and help them out

- this helps the family to involve consciously in the treatment, like next check up preparation, giving medicine in proper time.