Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Role of Effective Communication And Interpersonal Interaction

Question: Describe about The Role Of Effective Communication And Interpersonal Interaction As A Children's Nurse? Answer: Introduction to effective communication and interpersonal interaction in Childcare process The nursing practice works on different principles at different life-stages of their client that are childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The nursing care of children involves different aspects of caring, communicating, interactions and treatment processes. The children care to occur in the range of settings that involves hospitals, day care centres, childs home or child health clinics but the baseline of nursing care for children depends on the communication and interaction developed with children. Childhood is the developmental stage of life and any illness in this age leads to more drastic psychological and mental defects rather than physical, therefore, nurse caring for children need to have special skills to rescue this distress phase of childs life (Blais, 2015). The exceptional communication skills are the most essential attribute of nursing care involving effective ways to communicate with patients, co-workers, supervisors, subordinates, families and friends of children to build a strong interpersonal interaction as a health care professional. This strong interpersonal interaction at personal and professional level helps to reduce stress, promote wellness, enhance quality treatment and therefore, delivering best nursing care for children (Jones, 2012). Effective communication between nurse and patient is essential for the outcome of individual nursing care competency from the prospect of nurses as well as for the fulfilment of overall patient treatment requirements. Effective communication works as a tool for building interpersonal relationships when performing childcare (Brinkert, 2010). As per Dyadic Interpersonal Communication Model the two people involved in an interaction process work as sender and recipient or encoder and decoder. The models state that interpersonal interaction is a result of encoding and decoding process that is established by communication. Similarly effective nursing communication works as a tool for interaction between the nurse and patient leading to interpersonal interaction (Peate et al. 2014). Role of communication in Nurse-Children Interaction There is a fine line difference between telling and communicating because communication also involves listening process. Hence, effective communication in nursing care is a skill build to fill the communication gap between care center and patient. Being at the hospital is a crucial phase of childs life because they get psychologically disturbed while being at such place in life leading to anger, impatient, and stressful behavioural response. Here the effective communication works more than medication to control these psychological and mental modifications in childs attitude. The nurse should politely and patiently communicate to make children feel homely, comfortable and satisfied at care centers that will enhance the treatment process (Riesenberg et al. 2010). Children generally are not able to express their needs and suffering when compared to adults in the care process. But, it is observed that children share their feelings with nurses who communicate with them in a proper manner. As per Habermas critical theory, understanding the patient will surely help in understanding the treatment and nursing communication is a proper tool for this process. As children nurse the skills of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) also play a very importance role in understanding children with complex communication needs (CCN) (Mullan and Kothe, 2010). The effective nurse-children interaction also depends on the interpersonal interaction development with others like patient family, co-workers and supervisors as a professional nurse. If the nurse is not able to establish this interaction than there will be no effect of effective communication on the treatment process. For Example- If the children transmit his needs to nurse but the nurse is not able to interact and communicate this information to concerned healthcare provider than it automatically looses its effect on treatment (Peate et al. 2014). Role of interpersonal interaction as childrens Nurse The sensitive and responsive nursing interaction with children helps to fulfil the neurophysiological, psychological and physical development needs of children. Across different cultures, the caregiver and children relationship is always nurtured by warm, responsive, rich, positive and protective interaction because children cannot handle the environments that do not show competency with their threshold characteristics (Stewart, 2012). As per studies of the neurobiology of interpersonal development, the caregivers architects the human connections that lead to the brain development of the child because human connections construct neuronal connections (Peate et al. 2014). The establishment of interpersonal relationship not only helps in improving attachment with the patient but also with other people involved in caregiving process that involves co-workers, supervisor, doctors and family of the patient. The interpersonal interaction also works for children with disabilities by establishing the socio-emotional development of children. The parent-medicated developmental process is the most successful interpersonal interaction for treatment of the disabled child. In this interaction, the adults are indirectly involved to promote childs development and they are instructed by nurses on the activities to perform in the development process (Stewart, 2012). Along with this interpersonal interaction of nurses with Doctors and supervisor involved in the treatment of disabled child helps to understand and analyse the psychological, physical and emotional needs of such children. The nurse establishing an effective communication with children and further transmitting this information to higher care providers as well as their parents establishes an interpersonal interaction and better treatment processes (Jones, 2012). Conclusion The effective communication and interpersonal interaction performed by nurses work as key elements for better childrens development as well as treatment process to deliver quality care. The effective communication working as a tool for interpersonal interaction helps to build a strong, genuine, meaningful and hopeful relationships between nurse, patient, parents and other healthcare professionals. References Books Blais, K., (2015).Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives. USA: Prentice Hall. Peate, I., Wild, K. and Nair, M., (2014).Nursing Practice: Knowledge and Care. John Wiley Sons. Journals Brinkert, R., (2010). A literature review of conflict communication causes, costs, benefits and interventions in nursing.Journal of Nursing Management,18(2), pp.145-156. Jones, A., (2012). The foundation of good nursing practice: effective communication.Journal of Renal Nursing,4(1), pp.37-41. Mullan, B.A. and Kothe, E.J., (2010). Evaluating a nursing communication skills training course: The relationships between self-rated ability, satisfaction, and actual performance.Nurse education in practice,10(6), pp.374-378. 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