Within a discourse community, communication is the cornerstone in the success of maintaining a community set on expanding and combining ideas together to expand the knowledge, values of their community and maintain a particular lexis or intercommunication (Swales 25-26). In a nursing community, nurses are the main junction of communication between patients and other medical teams. The strength of their communication depends on the accuracy of their content and the exchange of important information. Nurses must also take into account of their audience, whether they must use terminology with their coworkers or layman’s terms with patients. The success of their communication also incorporates how they interact with certain constraints, such as
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The nursing communities are comprised of a multitude of organizations such as National League for Nursing, National Council of State Boards of Nursing and the American Association of Nurses, that all strive for the same quality of healthcare. The nursing community’s main goals and values are to promote high quality health care, maintain dedication to the field and commitment to the job, patients and communities. Nurses are trained to advance quality healthcare through practice, research and leadership. The nursing community puts emphasis on their nurse’s integrity, professionalism, leadership, service and to exceed their standards of expectations. Although it does not state it in the values of the community, nurses must also maintain confidentiality of their patients to protect their patient’s privacy. Clarity and conciseness in the communication of the nursing community is vital. Detailed written reports of the patients or verbal communication as the patient is being passed on to a doctor or any other specialist must be concise, as most errors during surgery or any other procedures is due to the failure of good communication between nurses and other specialists. The nursing community values their patients’ health and quality care to the highest standard, and excellent communication in the field helps maintain that …show more content…
For example, in one written detailed report a nurse accidently recorded the wrong amount of medication to a patient. In her report, she diagnosed the patient with 450 mg of ibuprofen, but with her illegible handwriting the detailed report appeared to say that the patient was diagnosed with 540 mg of ibuprofen every day. In another report a nurse used abbreviated terminology in the patient’s diagnosis. Their detail written report also contained arrows, and pen marks everywhere that it made the report distracting and unconcise (Boucheix 47). Simple mistakes such as not writing the patient’s conditions thoroughly, illegible handwriting, no date, mixing up different medications or sometimes even writing the information in the wrong area of the report can jeopardize the communication between nurses as it is passed on (Gaunt 1). Written detailed reports are essential to the clarity and conciseness of patient information to other medical staff, even the smallest error in communication can harm the patient and integrity of the nursing
The nursing communities are comprised of a multitude of organizations such as National League for Nursing, National Council of State Boards of Nursing and the American Association of Nurses, that all strive for the same quality of healthcare. The nursing community’s main goals and values are to promote high quality health care, maintain dedication to the field and commitment to the job, patients and communities. Nurses are trained to advance quality healthcare through practice, research and leadership. The nursing community puts emphasis on their nurse’s integrity, professionalism, leadership, service and to exceed their standards of expectations. Although it does not state it in the values of the community, nurses must also maintain confidentiality of their patients to protect their patient’s privacy. Clarity and conciseness in the communication of the nursing community is vital. Detailed written reports of the patients or verbal communication as the patient is being passed on to a doctor or any other specialist must be concise, as most errors during surgery or any other procedures is due to the failure of good communication between nurses and other specialists. The nursing community values their patients’ health and quality care to the highest standard, and excellent communication in the field helps maintain that …show more content…
For example, in one written detailed report a nurse accidently recorded the wrong amount of medication to a patient. In her report, she diagnosed the patient with 450 mg of ibuprofen, but with her illegible handwriting the detailed report appeared to say that the patient was diagnosed with 540 mg of ibuprofen every day. In another report a nurse used abbreviated terminology in the patient’s diagnosis. Their detail written report also contained arrows, and pen marks everywhere that it made the report distracting and unconcise (Boucheix 47). Simple mistakes such as not writing the patient’s conditions thoroughly, illegible handwriting, no date, mixing up different medications or sometimes even writing the information in the wrong area of the report can jeopardize the communication between nurses as it is passed on (Gaunt 1). Written detailed reports are essential to the clarity and conciseness of patient information to other medical staff, even the smallest error in communication can harm the patient and integrity of the nursing