Personal Professional Health Care Communication

The objective of this study is to write as though addressing a group of family caregivers, staff, and in-service training, nursing students in a pre-licensure program or peers. This work will discuss health care communication, the relevancy of effective personal health care communication with other health care professionals, clients, and patients and the relevancy of effective professional health care communication to health outcomes. This work will answer as to how the lack of effective personal and professional health care communications contributes to poor health outcomes as well as discussing the theories and principles of therapeutic communication in health care settings for the health care professional.

Introduction

Health care communication is defined as encompassing "…the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health. It links the domains of communication and health and is increasingly recognized as a...
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