Summary: Communication Barriers In Pediatric Care

Introduction
It is inevitable that parents will eventually have to seek the expertise of a physician or pediatrician for their child with regard to advice, diagnosis, assessment, and/or resources. Oftentimes, parents enter physician’s office with thoughts about what is and what is not causing their symptoms to transpire offering their own interpretations (Gill & Roberts, 2012). Such encounters will allow for the opportunity for physicians to apply their medical expertise with a goal of promoting wellness, healing, and satisfaction for parents playing the role as patients. Several communication barriers are currently taking the front seat in pediatric care. The first communication barrier is physicians inappropriately prescribing antibiotics to children. The second communication …show more content…
Conversation analysis has been able to identify such significant communication encounters that take place in institutional settings, that it may be the answer to formulating such a collaboration. The close examination of video recorded pediatric encounters will be able to illustrate that physicians and patients have assumptions, desires, fears, and expected outcomes inside pediatric centers. This plays into future health challenges because if such expectations are not identified and addressed, then they will remain challenges rather than improvements. The method of CA is distinctive because it is able to successfully identify, address, and resolve institutional challenges through the use of raw data. The goal is to extend such research into the realm of pediatric centers where physicians and parents are able to align with one another. Such a partnership would be able to improve the quality of healthcare and ultimately bridge the gap between parent and physician