Effective Communication In Nursing Essay

When deciding the focused topic, it was chosen and narrowed down to how health care professionals maintain effective communication for patients with dementia in a nursing home setting within the topic of respect and dignity. Communication is an important part of nursing practice, with in the code under the domain practice effectively its states that nurses must communicate clearly and respond to an individual’s communication needs, providing help and assistance where needed using a range of communication skills such as verbal, nonverbal methods, taking in consideration a person’s ethnic and culture background, ensuring that the person has clearly understood the information received. (NMC code, 2015).

The department of health (2010) (DOH)

Holloway and Wheeler (2013) explain that qualitative research is a way of Inquiry which centres attention around the way people see their experiences, and that researchers use this to interpret a person’s behaviour and how they feel, meaning that studies are carried out where the researcher and the participants understands the views, usually using an interview process with groups of individuals this is also supported by Wisker (2009).

Wisker (2009) also explains that quantitative research differs from qualitative by using questionnaires to gather information by providing a series of closed and open-ended questions which are produced, meaning closed questions being a direct yes or no answer and an open-ended question being an answer that will need explanation and focuses around data