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Describe the different influences on nursing in healthcare practice
including: nursing shortage, healthcare reform, and the medically
underserved population. - ANS ✓Nursing Shortage: Creates more jobs
but it also makes it more difficult for each client to receive quality care.
Healthcare Reform: A process of changing the system and how it works
to make it better for all Americans. It has many faults and problems as it
is at the moment and reform calls for changes to address them. Ex:
Obamacare
Medically Underserved Population: Lack of access to medical care, but if
they were to go to an ER they cannot refuse to treat them for not having
insurance/ being able to pay for care.
Describe the different communication roles (channel, receiver, message,
sender, referent, and feedback) between the nurse and the client. - ANS
✓Channel: The means of sending and receiving messages through
visual, auditory, and tactile senses.
Receiver: The person who receives and decodes the message.
Message: The content of the communication.
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Sender: The person who encodes and delivers a message.
Referent: Motivates one person to communicate with another.
Feedback: The message a sender receives from the receiver.
Identify each component of SBAR utilized for delivering client report to
the healthcare provider. - ANS ✓SBAR :
Situation: What is happening right now?
Background: What led up to the current situation?
Assessment: What is the identified problem, concern, or need?
Recommendation: What actions or interventions should be initiated to
alleviate the problem?
Describe the nursing role in maintaining therapeutic communication with
clients utilizing intonation, gestures, timing, and vocabulary. - ANS
✓Intonation: Tone of voice
Gestures: Empathizes punctuate and clarify the spoken works. Ex:
Talking with your hands to add to the conversation.
Timing: Judging if it is a good time to give a patient information about
their condition. (Good timing)
Vocabulary: Simplify what you are saying based on your patient. Tuning
the medical jargon down. Making sure patients understand what you are
saying.
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Describe the nurse's role in maintaining professionalism with client
interactions. - ANS ✓Courtesy: Common human interaction
Use of names: Introduce yourself and your status as a nurse. Use proper
pronoun when speaking to people older and younger than you.
Trustworthiness: Relying on someone without doubt or question.
Autonomy and Responsibility: Initiation of nursing interventions without
medical orders from a phsycian and take responsibility for your actions.
Explain therapeutic communication techniques the nurse will utilize with
clients from a culture differing from the nurse's culture. - ANS ✓Know
each patient individually (ex if they are not comfortable with eye contact
or sharing other information with others). So use different degrees of eye
contact, personal space, gestures, loud voice, pace of speech, touch,
silence, and meaning of language.
Describe the nurse's role with initiating active listening with a client. -
ANS ✓Being attentive to what a patient is saying both verbally and
nonverbally. It facilitates patients communication.
SOLER:
S- Sit facing the patient
O- Open position
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