Effective Communication In Health Care

Communication is the single most important role of a healthcare worker. Without effective communication there will be mistakes made that will affect the outcome of patients care, medication and procedures errors, increase length of stay and issues that will be left unsolved until it is too late. Effective communication is imperative to the health care, and when communication fails between heath care professionals can have catastrophic results. There are many reasons for the communication failure, some are somewhat obvious such as; being interrupted by call lights, and phone when the doctor is trying to give us an order he wants done, another is the nurse background or education or culture doesn’t allow them to questions physicians’ orders

Although it was not widely received by nurses in the beginning, it has since become a handy tool of communication to nurses and especially to doctors. SBAR is simple to use and to the point, one is to describe what is going on, give a pertinent background information about the patients, your assessment of what you see and hear and what the patient is complaining about and make recommendation to what you thick needs to be done. In addition, to make sure the transition of care continues we use team huddles, where the team/staff get together and focus on both the primary issues and care for that patient along with clarifying issues, and following up on issues that has or need to be addressed. Furthermore, there is the multidisciplinary round which usually involves the unit, charge and nurse manager along with doctors, social worker and anyone else that is on the care team (Dingley, et al., 2015). With all the communication between the multidisciplinary team, along with the team huddles, the one I use more frequently is the