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Communication within health and social care
Communication within health and social care
Communication within health and social care
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D1: Evaluate strategies used in health and social care environments to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions.
There are many different strategies in a health and social care environment to overcome barriers to effect communication and interpersonal interactions. These include: hearing aids, mobile phones, hearing loops, interpreters, translators and a signer.
Hearing aids
A hearing aid is an effective way to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions as a person who is deaf will be able to hear other people who are taking to them as it picks up and also increases the volume of a person’s voice so this means that a person who is deaf will be able to hear them clearly. However,
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there are disadvantages of hearing aids such as if the battery of the hearing aid was not working, then this would mean that if will not be useful for a person who is deaf as they will not be able to hear anything or may hear a little bit of the discussions they are having with other people around them. Also, hearing aids can increase background nose and if the background noise was actually really lout, then it can put the person who is deaf to have pain as everything will usually be about ten times louder to them. Hearing loops A hearing loop is an effective way to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions as it helps people who are deaf to be able to hear sound more clearing and also prevents any background noise and this means that a person who is deaf will be able to understand what other people around them are saying in a clear way. However, there are disadvantages of hearing loops such as. However, there are disadvantages of hearing loops such as they can pick up interference from other magnetic fields and this can easily confuse the person who is using the hearing loop and also can make them become uncomfortable as they are picking up more sounds than they should be hearing. In certain situations, a hearing loop may not be safe to use as other hearing aid wearers may listen and this can make the person who is deaf to feel as if everybody is listening to what they are saying or listening to and this can make the deaf person feel quite uncomfortable. Interpreters An interpreter is an effective way to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions as interprets are able to communicate in a conversation, whether it is signed or spoken to somebody in a different language which they may understand. However, there are disadvantages of interpreters such as interpreters may not be able to interpret every single word and signs, however, they may have to find a way of expressing a meaning and if it not done correctly, then the health and social care service user may not be able to understand and misinterpret what they are being told and interpret it into something which has not been told to them and is actually made up. Translators A translator is an effective way to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions as translators can change information which is recorded such as a word which is written into another language and this will be good for somebody who is deaf and is unable to hear an interpreter so the translator will write it down for them instead. However, there are disadvantages of translators such as they have to express the meaning as well as the word and this means that a translator will not be sure about the meaning and this can actually confuse the health and social care service users and as translators have to write the words down and if their hand writing is not understandable enough, then the health and social care service user can easily think that the word means something else instead of understanding the actual meaning of the word. Signers A signer is an effective way to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions as a signer is a person who usually use signed language in order to communicate with people who are deaf and this is seen to be beneficial as the health and social care service provider such as a doctor, is likely to have been educated to learn signed language, however, if a signer was communicating with a person who is deaf, they will communicate with them by using the signer. Also, it an easier than lip reading as lip reading might not always be understood. However, there are disadvantages of signers such as a signer will have to make every hand movement as clear as possible so that the health and social care service user can understand what they are being told and also the signer will be able to use a language which is suitable to the health and social care service user and does not use many words and this mean that they will not be able to understand such as slang or jargon. Sensory impairment Sensory impairment can be a barrier to effective communication and interpersonal interactions as it can prevent health and social care service users as well as health care specialist to communicate accurately and this is because they interfere with the health and social care service user’s ability to receive, understand and send a message.
Sensory impairment is the main problem for health and social care service users who have sensory impairments are more likely to have unsuccessful care and their healthcare needs may not be met. This can lead to the health and social care service user to have a low self-esteem as they will often become confused and also not aware about what situation their health is currently. To overcome this barrier, the health and social care service user will need to be receiving technological aids which work properly for them to be able to talk about and be given information about their health from health and social care specialists. Also, health and social care specialists must be aware about the additional communication needs of the service users who have sensory impairment so that they could be receiving aids which can help them to communicate with other people around them. health and social care specialists can be using the strategy of assessment of needs to overcome the barrier of sensory impairment and they can do this by assessing the health care needs of the health and social care service users’ and by doing this, health and social care specialists will be able to give loop systems to the health and social care service users. Loop systems will often help health and social care service users with hearing aids as they will help them to listen to sound accurately as it decreases background noise which can avoid effective communication to take
place. Environment Environment can be a barrier to effective communication and interpersonal interactions. An example of this includes: when a health and social care service user and a health care specialist are in a environment which is noisy, then the environment will be difficult for them to communicate with each other. Therefore, this type of communicate will not be effective as it decreases the ability for people to communicate effectively with other people because if the environment is quite loud, then the health and social care service users would not be able to listen.
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