In: Nursing
Communication is an important aspect in nursing care. In is important to provide appropriate care to the patient and also in coordination of healthcare team activities.
Proper communication is needed to identify the exact problem of a patient and to plan appropriate nursing care plan as per patient needs . And also communication between coworkers made the care effective and improve the quality of care.
While we are trying to communicate with patient trust is an important factor. Trust should be necessary to develop the proper communication. To this we need to develop a rapport with the patient . Maintain confidentiality and the realtion should be an therapeutic one.
The nurse should know about the therapeutic impasses. Those are the barriesr to build an effective communication.
Barriers include resistance. In this the patient try to remain unaware due to anxiety.
Transference and countertransference are the barriers developed due to misunderstanding of the goals and purpose of the relationship between nurse and patient.