Nur111 Concept 2: Communication

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Active listening

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Being attentive to what the patient is saying both verbally and nonverbally

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Assertiveness

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Allows you to express feelings and ideas without judging or hurting others

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Autonomy

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Is being self-directed and independent in accomplishing Goals and advocationg for others

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Channels

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Means of conveying and receaiving messages through visual, auditory, and tactile senses

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Comminication

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Encompasses all means by which people exchange messages with each other

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Empathy

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The abuility to understand and accept another person's reality, accurately perceive feelings, and communicate this understanding to the other

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Environment

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The setting for sender-receiver interaction

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Feedback

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The message the receiver returns

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Interpersonal communication

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One-on-one interaction between a nurse and another person that often occurs face to face.

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Interpersonal variables

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Factors within both sender and receiver that influence communication

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Intrapersonal communication

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A powerful form of communication that occurs within an individual

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Message

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The content of the communication

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Metacommunication

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A broad term that refers to all factors that influence communication

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Nonverbal communication

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Includes the five senses and everything that does not involve the spoken or written word

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Perceptual biases

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Human tendancies that interfere with accurately perciving and interpreting messages from others

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Public communication

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Interaction with an audience

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Receiver

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The person that receives and decodes the message

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Referent

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Motivates one person to communicate with another

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Sender

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The person that encodes and delivers the message

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Small-group communication

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Interaction that occurs when a small number of persons meet

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Symbolic communication

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The verbal and nonverbal symbolism used by others to convey meaning

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Sympathy

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Is concern, sorrow, or pitty felt for a patient

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Therapeutic communication

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Techniques specific to encourage the expression of feelings and ideas and convey acceptance and respect

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Transpersonal communication

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interaction that occurs within a person's spiritual domain

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Verbal communication

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uses spoken or written words

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ISBARR

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I: identify yourself
S: situation
B: background
A: assessment
R: recommendation
R: read back

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SOLER

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S: sit
O: open pasture
L: lean in
E: eye contact
R: relax

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Sensation

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the operation or function of the senses

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Perception

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the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses

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Presbycusis

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Hearing loss occurring as part of the aging process

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Ototoxicity

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Hearing loss caused my medication

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Paresthesia

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an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching

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Stereognosis

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the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it

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Proprioception

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perception governed by proprioceptors, as awareness of the position of one's body

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Graphesthesia

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the ability to recognize writing on the skin purely by the sensation of touch

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Tactile Sensation

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sensation of touch

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Gustatory

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of or relating to taste or tasting

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Olfactory

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sense of smell

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Tinnitus

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ringing in the ear

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Xerostomia

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dryness of the mouth caused by diminished function of the salivary glands due to aging, disease, drug reaction

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Nociceptors

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a receptor of a sensory neuron (nerve cell) that responds to potentially damaging stimuli

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Mechanoreceptors

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any of the sense organs that respond to vibration, stretching, pressure, or other mechanical stimuli

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Thermoreceptors

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a receptor stimulated by changes in temperature

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Kinesthetic Sensation

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The recognition of the body and its parts in space as the parts relate to each other

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Tactile sensation

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the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

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Conductive hearing loss

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occurs when there is a problem conducting sound waves anywhere along the route through the outer ear

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Vertigo

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a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings

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Glaucoma

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abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye

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Macular degeneration

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degeneration of the central portion of the retina

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Diabetic Retinopathy

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a disorder of the blood vessels of the retina occurring as a complication of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus and often leading to blindness

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Cataracts

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an abnormality of the eye, characterized by opacity of the lens

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Chemoreceptors

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a receptor stimulated by chemical means

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Sensorineural hearing loss

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occurs when there is damage to the inner ear