Answer To: 14/05/ XXXXXXXXXXSession 4, NUR272, Palliative, Rehabilitation and ......
Sayani answered on Jul 05 2021
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NUR272 PALLIATIVE, REHABILITATION AND CONTINUING CARE
CHOSEN TOPIC 2: SUPPORTIVE COMMUNICATION
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Search Strategy 3
Findings 4
Discussion 7
Conclusion 10
References 11
Introduction
As beautifully quoted by Lois Capps, that “Nurses serves their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve our first line of communication, when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health”. According to this context, this paper will provide you the thorough research how supportive communication is highly needed for those people living with life-limiting illness. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care giving approach aimed at quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious complex illness. This paper will produce literature review with the topic supportive communication and how it is related with standard and guidelines of palliative and end-of life care.
Search Strategy
While beginning with searching the articles, the paper undergoes certain procedures. For instance, firstly it has started with Google Chrome where in order to get relevant information for this particular topic supportive communication the paper selected Google Scholar for referencing purpose. Then after typing Google Scholar, which is a renowned and relevant resource zone, it typed supportive communication skills. About 1350000 results came and out of them, 3 to 4 articles contain PDF and HTML files. Then after gathering information about supportive communication skills from these pages, the paper proceeded towards next topic, which is supportive communication in palliative and end-of life care. About 99,000 results were found under this and maximum were PDF and HTML files.
After sorting it according to the time since 2017, the result of the topic supportive communication skills stands to 64,500. Among these, the papers, which have been chosen, are few such relevant articles, which are most closely related to the topic, such as those published by Hafskjold et al. (2017) and Back et al. (2019). These two articles are used to understand the supportive communication skills. After sorting the topic supportive communication in palliative and end-of life care in term time since 2017, the result stands into 16,200 hits. Among these articles, our paper chooses few such relevant articles, which are best suited for the topic. The articles are those published Brighton et al. (2019), Kaasa et al. (2018), Price et al. (2017), Cloyes et al. (2018), Dunning and Martin (2018) as well as Pollens et al. (2018). All these articles are chosen to highlight the key issues in palliative and end-of life care, and how supportive communication is needed to handle the patients with further implementation.
Findings
There are several sociological theories and strategies, which are highly required for all the medical and healthcare staffs to deal with patients and acknowledge the palliative care giving practices. It helps them to connect between group and personal flexibility by utilising the social network policies, which thereby educate them to learn communication skills.
With the help of skilled communication power, the medical staffs, nurses and even the doctors are now able to adopt the presentation skill. After exploring communicating skills, they can very easily adopt the patient's education. The writing skill as well as listening actively to any patients also improved.
In this technologically advanced world, everyone is found to be taking help of several teaching and learning tools. It includes the internet, various Wikipedia’s, several journals and articles from websites, which thereby provides fruitful information in an attractive way about the patient’s world. As stated by Banerjee et al. (2017) nurses plays the vital role in dealing with the patients the most. They had to deal with various range of patients and for these development of communication skills is highly needed.
As the nurses had to deal with the doctors, other medical staff and with the patients, therefore, they should possess a good nurse communication competency. Therefore, communication plays the most important component in building the career of a nurse. A nurse has to deal with patients from various ranges, cultures, sections and areas. Therefore, they should know how to talk with them and thereby assess them with medication.
As stated by Dalcól, Garanhani., Fonseca and Carvalho, (2017) sometimes non- verbal communication theories are also adopted by the nurses, as there are many patients who fail to understand specific languages. Supportive communication is a support given both verbal as well as non-verbal in times of stress, heart attacks, physical and emotional distress and many others. The main motif of this support is to assist those seen and being in need of such support. The communication skills therefore, help them to explain the...