Healthcare Communication Issues

Communication is a sensitive issue in healthcare. This is because it is capable of directly impacting on the quality of care that patients receive. According to Abbaszadeh, et al. (2014), effective medical care depends on effective communication. The authors explain that poor communication commonly increase the risk of patients experiencing improper diagnosis or delayed /inappropriate treatment, thus negative health outcomes. Friedrichsen and Strang (2013) concurs and adds that this is why most health institutions employ the services of interpreters when the patients and caregivers do not share a common language. Barclay, Blackhall, and Tulsky (2007) believes that many hospitals from across the globe currently face increasing challenges when

Back (2013) notes that healthcare institutions face several other challenges other than language. the authors insists that most of the communication issues are usually ethical in nature. One significant example of issues that healthcare institutions face with regards to communication is the breaking down of bad news to patients. Every kind of medical problem is associated with some level of awful or bad news on the off chance that it requires a visit to a medical service center or upsets the planned schedules for a couple of days. In any case, the sort of bad news which most concerns the wellbeing specialists, clinical correspondence researchers, and several kinds of health care experts are connected with life-restricting, dynamic, and propelled illnesses which have collectively alluded as the lethal wellbeing conditions. The way of terrible or bad news in these settings varies radically from obnoxious data and sensible disturbances of day by day exercises brought about by regular or constant wellbeing conditions. Data about the conclusion of a troublesome malady, poor anticipation, disappointing results of medications, an absence of feasible treatment choices, treatment outcomes, for example, lethal chemotherapy, removal of body parts, or loss

It is imperative to perceive the subjective measurement of the bad news by comprehending the various routes in which the individuals see and react to such wellbeing data. In such manner, Ptacek and Eberhardt (1996) brought up mental results of terrible news in characterizing it as the wellbeing data that results in intellectual, behavioral, or enthusiastic shortage in the individual accepting the news and this keeps going past the awful news experience. Similarly, Buckman(1992) contextualized the aspect of bad or awful news in the life prospects of a patient and characterized it as a form of news that radically and adversely changes the patient's perspective of the future health conditions. Many different subtleties of the bad or awful news would rise if wellbeing specialists and healthcare professionals inspect this aspect in different national backgrounds, societies, and clinical settings. Clinical correspondence or communication which can also be termed as the patient–physician or patient–clinician correspondence, alludes to the communications among medicinal services experts, patients, and their families with an end goal to accomplish better wellbeing outcomes (Rogers,