This document discusses various aspects of professional communication including:
- The importance of effective communication through both verbal and nonverbal means. Clear communication is essential for client safety and collaboration.
- Factors that can influence the communication process such as development, gender, culture and environment.
- Techniques for therapeutic communication including empathy, listening, attending, reflecting and questioning.
- Considerations for effective communication with children and the importance of establishing trust and rapport.
This presentation contains ;-
1. Definition of community
2. Definition of health
3. definition of nursing
4. Causes of poor health
5. Definition of community health nursing
6. Types of communities
7. community health
8. Public health
9. Aims of public health
10. Aims of community health nurse
11. Objectives of community health nursing
12. Principles of community health nursing
13. Function of community health nurse
14. The mission of community health nursing
15. concepts of health
16. components of community health nursing
17. Scope of community health nursing
18. Community health nursing roles
This presentation contains ;-
1. Definition of community
2. Definition of health
3. definition of nursing
4. Causes of poor health
5. Definition of community health nursing
6. Types of communities
7. community health
8. Public health
9. Aims of public health
10. Aims of community health nurse
11. Objectives of community health nursing
12. Principles of community health nursing
13. Function of community health nurse
14. The mission of community health nursing
15. concepts of health
16. components of community health nursing
17. Scope of community health nursing
18. Community health nursing roles
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2. Communication
• Human interaction
– Verbal and nonverbal
– Written and unwritten
– Planned and unplanned
• Conveys thoughts and ideas
• Transmits feelings
• Exchanges information
• Means various things
3. Communication, continued
• Effective communication
• Intrapersonal level self-talk
• Clear communication essential
– Client safety
– Collaboration with diverse team challenged by
• Current health care environment
• Professional communication and collaboration
• Cultural gaps
• Available resources and technology
4. The Communication Process
• Sender
– Source-encoder
• Message
– What is actually said/written, body language
– How words are transmitted channel
• Receiver
– Listener decoder perception of intention
• Response Feedback
5.
6. Verbal Communication
• Pace and intonation
• Simplicity
• Clarity and brevity
– Congruence
• Timing and relevance
• Adaptability
• Credibility
• Humor
7. Nonverbal Communication
• Body language
– Gestures, movements, use of touch
• Essential skills: observation, interpretation
– Personal appearance
– Posture and gait
– Facial expression of self, others; eye contact
• Gestures
– Cultural component
8. Electronic Communication
• Advantages
– Fast
– Efficient
– Legible
– Improves communication, continuity of care
• Disadvantages
– Client confidentiality risk
– HIPPA
– Socioeconomics
9. Electronic Communication,
continued
• Do not use e-mail
– Urgent information
• Jeopardy to client’s health
– Highly confidential information
– Abnormal lab data
• Other guidelines
– Agency-specific standards and guidelines
– Part of medical record
– Consent, identify as confidential
10. Effective
Written Communication
• Does not convey nonverbal cues
• Same as verbal AND
• Appropriate language and terminology
• Correct grammar, spelling, punctuation
• Logical organization
• Appropriate use and citation of resources
11. Factors Influence Communication
Process
• Development & gender
• Sociocultural characteristics
• Values and perception
• Personal space and territoriality
• Roles and relationships
• Environment
• Congruence
• Attitudes
12. Development
• Language and communication skills develop
through stages
• Communication techniques for children
– Play
– Draw, paint, sculpt
– Storytelling, word games
– Read books; watch movies, videos
– Write
13. Gender
• Females and males communicate differently
from early age
• Boys establish independence, negotiate
status
• Girls seek confirmation, intimacy
15. Values and Perception
• Values standards that influence behavior
• Perceptions personal view of an event
• Unique personality traits, values, experiences
• Validate
16. Personal Space
• Defined as distance people prefer in
interactions with others
• Proxemics
– Intimate distance frequently used by nurses
– Personal distance less overwhelming
– Social distance increased eye contact
• Out of reach for touch
– Public distance
17. Figure 36-5 Personal space influences communication in social and professional interactions. Encroachment into another
individual’s personal space creates tension.
18. Territoriality
• Space and things
– Individual considers as belonging to self
– Knock before entering space
• May be visible
– Curtains around bed unit
– Walls of private room
– Removing chair to use at another bed
19. Roles and Relationships
• Between sender and receiver
• First meeting versus developed relationship
• Informal with colleagues
• Formal with administrators
• Length of relationship
21. Congruence
• Congruence
– Verbal and nonverbal aspects match
– Seen by nurse and clients
• Incongruence
– Sender’s true meaning in body language
• Improving nonverbal communication
– Relax; use gestures judiciously
– Practice; get feedback on nonverbal
22. Attitudes
• Interpersonal attitudes
– Attitudes convey beliefs, thoughts, feelings
– Caring, warmth, respect, acceptance
• Facilitate communication
– Condescension, lack of interest, coldness
• Inhibit communication
– Effective nursing communication
• Significantly related to client satisfaction
– Respect
23. Barriers to Communication
• Stereotyping
• Agreeing and
disagreeing
• Being defensive
• Challenging
• Probing
• Testing
• Rejecting
• Changing topics
• Unwarranted
reassurance
• Passing judgment
• Giving common
advice
24. Therapeutic Communication
• Interactive process between nurse, client
• Helps client overcome temporary stress
– To get along with other people
– Adjust to the unalterable
– Overcome psychological blocks
• Established with purpose of helping client
• Nurse responds to content
– Verbal, nonverbal
25. Therapeutic Communication
Techniques
• Empathizing
– Empathy is process
• People feel with one another
• Embrace attitude of person who is speaking
• Grasp idea that what client has to say important
– NOT synonymous with sympathy
– Interprets clients feelings without inserting own
26. Empathy
• Empathy
– Four phases of therapeutic empathizing
• Identification
• Incorporation
• Reverberation
• Detachment
– On guard against over-distancing or burnout
27. Listening
• Attentive listening
– Mindful listening
– Paying attention to verbal, nonverbal
– Noting congruence
– Absorbing content and feeling
– Listening for key themes
– Be aware of own biases
– Highly developed skill
28. Blocks to Attentive Listening
• Rehearsing
• Being concerned with oneself
• Assuming
• Judging
• Identifying
• Getting off track
• Filtering
29. Attending
• Physical attending
– Face the person squarely
– Adopt an open posture
– Lean toward the person
– Maintain good eye contact
– Try to be relatively relaxed
30. Silence
• Using silence
– Encouraging the client to communicate
– Allowing client time to ponder what has been said
– Allow client time to collect thoughts
– Allow client time to consider alternatives
– Look interested
– Uncomfortable silence should be broken
• Analyzed
31. Reflection
• Reflecting
– Repeating the client’s message
• Verbal or nonverbal
– Reflecting content repeats client’s statement
• May be misused, overused
• Use judiciously
– Reflecting feelings
• Verbalizing implied feelings in client’s comment
– Encourages client to clarify
32. Just the Facts
• Imparting information
– Supplying additional data
– Not constructive to withhold useful information
– Line between information and advice
– Avoid personal, social information
– Client participation in decision making positive
mental health outcomes
• Take in and understand information
• Educated empowered client
33. Deflection
• Avoiding self-disclosure
– Deflect a request for self-disclosure
• Honesty
• Benign curiosity
• Refocusing
• Interpretation
• Clarification
• Feedback and limit setting
– Assess and evaluate responses
34. Clarification
• Clarifying
– Attempt to understand client’s statement
– Ask client to give an example
• Paraphrasing
– Nurse assimilates or restates in own words
– Fives nurse opportunity to test understanding
• Checking perceptions
– Sharing how one person perceives another
35. Question and Define
• Questioning
– Very direct way of speaking with clients
– Open-ended questions focuses the topic
– Close question limits choice of responses
– Careful not to ask questions that steer answer
• Structuring
– Attempt to create order, establish guidelines
– Define parameters of nurse-client relationship
36. Pinpoint and Link
• Pinpointing
– Calls attention to certain kinds of statements
• Relationships
– Point to inconsistencies
– Similarities, differences
• Linking
– Nurse responds to client
• Ties together two events, experiences, feelings
• Connect past experiences with current behaviors
37. Giving Feedback
• Nurse share reaction to what client said
• Give in a way that does not threaten client
• Risk of client experiencing feedback
– Personal rejection
• Nurses should be open, receptive to cues
38. Focus Feedback
• On behavior, observations, description
• On more-or-less, rather than either/or
• On here-and-now: what is said, not why
• Sharing of information, ideas
• Exploration of alternatives
• Value to client
• Amount of information client able to use
• Appropriate time and place
39. Confronting
• Deliberate invitation to examine some aspect of
personal behavior that indicates discrepancy
between actions and words
• Informational confrontation
– Describes visible behavior
• Interpretive confrontation
– Draws inferences about the meaning of behavior
40. Six Skills in Confronting
• Use of personal statements
• Use of relationship statements
• Use of behavior descriptions
• Use of description of personal feelings
• Use of responses aimed at understanding
• Use of constructive feedback skills
41. Summarize and Process
• Summarizing
– Highlighting the main ideas expressed
– Conveys understanding
– Reviews main themes of conversation
– Use at different times during interaction
– Don’t rush to summarize
• Processing
– Direct attention to interpersonal dynamics
43. Barriers to Communication
• Failure to listen
• Improperly decoding intended message
• Placing the nurse’s needs above client’s
44. The Therapeutic Relationship
• Growth-facilitating process
– Help client manage problems in living
• More effectively
• Develop unused, underused opportunities fully
– Help client become better at helping self
• May develop over weeks or within minutes
• Influenced by nurse and client
– Personal and professional characteristics
45. Relationship
Characteristics
• Characteristics of therapeutic relationship
– Intellectual and emotional bond
• Focused on client
– Respects client as individual
– Respects client confidentiality
– Focuses on client’s well-being
– Based on mutual trust, respect, acceptance
47. Introductory Phase
• Preinteraction phase
• Introductory phase
– Orientation, pretherapeutic phase
– Nurse and client observe each other
– Open relationship
– Clarify problem
– Structure and formulate contract
– Client may display resistive behaviors
48. Introductory Phase, continued
• By end of this phase client begins to
– Develop trust in nurse
– View nurse as honest, open, concerned
– Believe nurse will try to understand, respect
– Believe nurse will respect client confidentiality
– Feel comfortable talking about feelings
– Understand purpose of relationship, roles
– Feel an active participant in plan
49. Working Phase Stages
• Stage One
– Exploring and understanding thoughts and feelings
– Empathetic listening and responding
– Respect, genuineness
– Concreteness
– Reflecting, paraphrasing, clarifying, confronting
– Intensity of interaction increases
50. Working Phase Stages,
continued
• Stage two
– Facilitate and take action
– Collaborate
– Make decisions
– Provide support
– Offer options
51. Termination Phase
• Difficult, ambivalent
• Summarizing
• Termination discussions
• Allow time for client adjustment to
independence
53. Skills for the Therapeutic
Relationship
• Listen actively
• Help identify the client’s feelings
• Be empathetic, honest, genuine, and credible
• Use ingenuity
• Be aware of cultural differences
• Maintain confidentiality
• Know your role and your limitations
54. Communication Techniques Working with
Children and Families
• Accepting
• Broad openings
• Clarifying
• Focusing
• Observations
• Reflection
• Summarizing
• Active listening
• Collaborating
• Exploring
• Giving recognition
• Offering self
• Restatement or
paraphrasing
• Validating perceptions
55. Developmental
Considerations
• Establish rapport with children
– Sit or lower self to child’s eye level
– Note what child is playing with or reading
– If appropriate, agree with child/share feelings
– Compliment a physical features, activity
– Use calm tone of voice, appropriate language
– Pace discussion, procedure in nonhurried manner
– Preschoolers have limited concept of time
56. Establish Trust
• Establishing rapport
– Include adolescent in discussion
– Listen more than you talk
– Avoid distractions
– Be truthful with the child
• Establishing trust
– Follow through with promises
– Respect confidentiality
– Be truthful, even if it isn’t what they want