The Difficult Language of Nursing When I was younger my mom would always have friends over from work. They would sit at the dining room table, drink a little red wine, and talk about their day. Their profession, nursing. I remember listening to them talk from time to time and not understanding anything that they were saying. Since I was younger I didn’t take the time to try to understand so I would just block them out. Over the years listening to my mom tell stories about work made me realize what a great community nursing is. The amount of language specific to their field that they use is extraordinary. I believe people often overlook nurses and think their job is much easier than it is. My mom always said how hard it was for her when she
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They are the first person to see the patient when they come into the hospital. They must be able to successfully communicate with the patient to get all of the valuable information the doctor will need. When writing down the information, it is much faster to use abbreviations rather than writing out all of the words. They must be careful to only use abbreviations appropriate to that specific hospital. In an article by Purdue Owl they write, “Different facilities and even licensing agencies have standard lists of abbreviations. Make sure you know these standard abbreviations and resist the impulse to come up with your own, even if the meaning of the abbreviation seems obvious to you. Deviation from those accepted forms can cause confusion in your narrative and can even get you in legal trouble” (Angeli 1). They must use these specific abbreviations and make sure that they do not stray away from them. The fact that they can get in legal trouble if they deviate away from the normal abbreviations shows the importance of knowing the appropriate abbreviations to use. A few examples of such abbreviations are; MVA, motor vehicle accident, NDKA, no known drug allergies, and CP, chest …show more content…
Communication in these times of high stress is the key to successfully helping the patient. The Joint Commission is an independent, non-profitable, company that certifies nearly 21,000 health care programs in the United States. Their certification is seen as a mark of quality that shows an organizations commitment to being the best that they can. In 2015 they said improving communication in health care as one of their Patient Safety Goals(Citation). On the matter of communication they said, “The work of nurses is complex, and errors in health care communication occur when health care team members are under stress, in high-task situations (eg, critical junctures during patient transfer), and when interrupted during an episode of communication, all of which compromise the accuracy and completeness of information transfer. (Chard, 2015, p.331)” Nurses must be very confident with their communication because in a high pressure situation knowing how to communicate with the other nurses can mean life or death in some cases. Communication in nursing is recognized by one of the leaders in health care certifiers as one of the most important skills in hospitals and vital to the successful helping of
They are the first person to see the patient when they come into the hospital. They must be able to successfully communicate with the patient to get all of the valuable information the doctor will need. When writing down the information, it is much faster to use abbreviations rather than writing out all of the words. They must be careful to only use abbreviations appropriate to that specific hospital. In an article by Purdue Owl they write, “Different facilities and even licensing agencies have standard lists of abbreviations. Make sure you know these standard abbreviations and resist the impulse to come up with your own, even if the meaning of the abbreviation seems obvious to you. Deviation from those accepted forms can cause confusion in your narrative and can even get you in legal trouble” (Angeli 1). They must use these specific abbreviations and make sure that they do not stray away from them. The fact that they can get in legal trouble if they deviate away from the normal abbreviations shows the importance of knowing the appropriate abbreviations to use. A few examples of such abbreviations are; MVA, motor vehicle accident, NDKA, no known drug allergies, and CP, chest …show more content…
Communication in these times of high stress is the key to successfully helping the patient. The Joint Commission is an independent, non-profitable, company that certifies nearly 21,000 health care programs in the United States. Their certification is seen as a mark of quality that shows an organizations commitment to being the best that they can. In 2015 they said improving communication in health care as one of their Patient Safety Goals(Citation). On the matter of communication they said, “The work of nurses is complex, and errors in health care communication occur when health care team members are under stress, in high-task situations (eg, critical junctures during patient transfer), and when interrupted during an episode of communication, all of which compromise the accuracy and completeness of information transfer. (Chard, 2015, p.331)” Nurses must be very confident with their communication because in a high pressure situation knowing how to communicate with the other nurses can mean life or death in some cases. Communication in nursing is recognized by one of the leaders in health care certifiers as one of the most important skills in hospitals and vital to the successful helping of