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Nurses use communication skills to: 1. Gather data 2. Teach others 3. Comfort others 4. Build a working relationship with colleagues and patients
When communication is effective a ‘message’ is sent, received and understood, and validated to the sender via feedback.
Therapeutic communication * Promote wellness and growth * Transfers the decision-making to the patient * Make the communication patient-centered * Ensure that the communication is goal-directed * Limit personal information during the exchange
techniques facilitate communication * Open-ended questions * Closed-ended questions * Focused questions * Sharing observations * Paraphrasing * Reflecting * Clarifying * Summarizing * Validating
techniques that can have therapeutic effects * Silence * Nonverbal behaviors such as touch, gestures, body position, eye contact * Awareness and respect for cultural and language differences
helping relationship three phases: * Orientation Phase * Working Phase * Termination Phase
patient record * Nursing Histories * Education Records * Nursing/Progress Notes * Entries on flow sheets * Entries on medication administration records
Examples of reports * Change-of-shift report * Transfer reports * Incident reports
patient's record is a legal document purposes--they are: * Communication * Legal documentation * Financial * Education * Research * Auditing and Monitoring
types of record systems source record and the problem-oriented medical record.
formats for recording patient data: * Narrative notes * SOAP (IE) notes * PIE notes * Focus (DAR) notes * Charting by exception(CBE) * Critical pathways
complete nursing/progress note includes: Assessment data Interventions performed Evaluation
SOAP Subj.data/Obj.data/Assessm./Plan. It is used to organize data interies in POMR (problem oriented medical records.)
PIE Problem/Intervention/Evaluation. Unique charting system because it does not develop separate plan of care. Documented in the beginning of the each shift using the flow sheets.
DAR Data/Action/Response. Narrative portion of the focus charting, principle advantage is holistic emphasis on the Pt and Pt's priority.
CBE Charting/by/exception. Shorthand documentation method. Benefits are decrease charting time, easy retrieval of data, timely bedside charting, standardize assessment, tracking of Pt response and lower cost.
Flow Sheets documentation tool used to record routine aspects of nursing care.
Created by: russianalaskan
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