NURSE-PATIENT COMMUNICATION, INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION, AND PATIENT SAFETY

NURSE-PATIENT COMMUNICATION, INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION, AND PATIENT SAFETY
Please continue to use the principles of setting up an APA paper from week 1 and 2
including introduction and conclusion.
For this assignment, address the following topics:
1. Define the seven principles of patient- clinician communication
2. Explain how you apply three of the seven of these to your interactions with your own
patients
3. Describe the three methods being used to improve interdisciplinary communication
4. Choose the one that you think applies best to your own area of practice, or the one
that your area of practice currently uses, and clearly describe how you use it.
5. Explain the ethical principles that can be applied to issues in patient-clinician
communication
6. Explain the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is
influenced by good or bad team communication
The headings for this paper are as follows
Principles of Communication
 Define the seven principles of patient- clinician communication
 Explain how you apply three of the seven of these to your interactions with your own
patients with at least one example for each of the principles.
Methods of Communication
 Defines and describes the three methods being used to improve interdisciplinary
communication
 Choose the one that you think applies best to your own area of practice, or the one
that your area of practice currently uses, and clearly describe how you use it.
Ethical Principles and Communication
 Defines the four ethical principles that can be applied to issues in patient-clinician
communication and gives one example of each.
 Explain the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is
impacted by team communication
Assignment should include a minimum of 3 professional references. One reference may be
your text book. One must be a refereed journal article, and the other may come from a
professional website (.gov, .edu and some .org websites- Wikipedia is not a professional
reference). All journal articles must be no older than five years.
You may use the Paget et al. (2011) article (which is one of this week’s required readings) as
one of your sources.
Word limit 600 minimum and 1000 maximum excluding title and reference pages.