In human’s daily life, communication is something that we do every day. It is an indispensable part in people’s activities. It divided into two types, verbal communication and nonverbal communication. In general, verbal communication means that people communicate with each other by means of language. Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Non-verbal communication includes Kinesics (face and body motion), Haptics (touch), Physical appearance, Artifacts (personal objects), Proxemics (personal space), Environmental factors, Chronemics (perception and use of time), Paralanguage (vocal qualities), Silence. (Wood, J, 2015)
Some say that non-verbal communication …show more content…
In lots of situations, the meaning can clearly expressed by using both communication skills. For example, patient felt pain after surgery done and made a complaint to nurse. Everyone may felt pain after surgery done and pain is also a personal feeling which other one cannot measured. So, nurse will only provide painkiller to patient normally as feeling pain was a common case in ward. However, if patient complain about pain with painful, suffering facial expression, nurse may view the pain with seriously than just verbal complaint. After that, nurse may not only gave painkiller but also inform doctor for further treatment. The other common situation in hospital that we need to use both communication is admission. During the admission, we may ask information like reason of admitting, medical history, surgical history, life style, etc. In medical ward, a lot of patients admitted for body check, they usually saying that they had abdominal pain or chest pain. As abdomen or chest can separated into different region. It can be described different problem to the body. One time, I diagnosed a patient is abdominal pain because patient said that he had abdominal pain for one week. But, when I asked him about dietary habit, he said that he loves coffee and two meals a day. I asked him which region feeling pain again and requested him to point it out. He pointed to left upper region and I found that …show more content…
(Joey Papa, 2013)For example, if you tell your lover you love him/her and then you follow up your verbal communication with kiss and a hug, the message of love is reinforced. Conversely, if parent tell child not to smoke, but they smoke in front of child every day, the verbal message and nonverbal message will contradict one another causing confusion and
Some say that non-verbal communication …show more content…
In lots of situations, the meaning can clearly expressed by using both communication skills. For example, patient felt pain after surgery done and made a complaint to nurse. Everyone may felt pain after surgery done and pain is also a personal feeling which other one cannot measured. So, nurse will only provide painkiller to patient normally as feeling pain was a common case in ward. However, if patient complain about pain with painful, suffering facial expression, nurse may view the pain with seriously than just verbal complaint. After that, nurse may not only gave painkiller but also inform doctor for further treatment. The other common situation in hospital that we need to use both communication is admission. During the admission, we may ask information like reason of admitting, medical history, surgical history, life style, etc. In medical ward, a lot of patients admitted for body check, they usually saying that they had abdominal pain or chest pain. As abdomen or chest can separated into different region. It can be described different problem to the body. One time, I diagnosed a patient is abdominal pain because patient said that he had abdominal pain for one week. But, when I asked him about dietary habit, he said that he loves coffee and two meals a day. I asked him which region feeling pain again and requested him to point it out. He pointed to left upper region and I found that …show more content…
(Joey Papa, 2013)For example, if you tell your lover you love him/her and then you follow up your verbal communication with kiss and a hug, the message of love is reinforced. Conversely, if parent tell child not to smoke, but they smoke in front of child every day, the verbal message and nonverbal message will contradict one another causing confusion and