Communication Within Nursing Assignment

Communication Within Nursing Assignment

Communication Within Nursing Assignment

Communication Within Nursing: Communication Framework- Nursing Communication Tools- Essay Writing Assignment

Task:

Communication within nursing practice is often challenging and nurses need to be equipped with concepts and strategies to respond effectively in these situations.

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Select one of the two communication scenarios presented below and write a 1200 word essay that analyses the scenario in relation to nursing communication. In your assignment, you need to draw on:

1. On supporting literature or concepts taught this semester (for example person centred care, family centred care, nursing governances, etc.) to strengthen and support your assignment.

Communication Within Nursing Assignment

Communication Within Nursing Assignment

2. These concepts in turn reinforce your choice of a Communication Framework that can be applied to overcome the ineffective communication displayed in the scenario (for example: managing aggression, assertive communication, managing conflict, de-escalating conflict, self-awareness, resilience and self-care).

3. The concepts and the communication framework work together to enhance the effectiveness of nursing communication tools to be improved in the scenario (for example SOAP, SOAPIE, ISBAR, ISOBAR, hand over, etc.)

Scenario 1
You are commencing your evening shift as a Registered Nurse in the local emergency department. You have just received patient handover from the morning shift. One of your patients is a woman who has had a fall outside the local supermarket and has sustained a serious head injury. She is presently unconscious and being prepared for transfer to the intensive care unit. As you approach the family to introduce yourself, you are confronted with a very unhappy and concerned family. One of the family stands really close to you, and in a loud voice says:

“What’s going on? We received a phone call saying Mum has been taken to hospital and then we are left sitting here for hours with no information from anyone! What is going on?”

In the handover, you did not receive any information informing you that the family were here.

Scenario 2
You are on clinical placement as a first year nursing student. The nurse you are working with today has requested that you attend a simple wound dressing on one of your patients. As you are completing the dressing and communicating with the patient, the nurse you have been working with arrives and challenges your technique with the dressing. The nurse states:

“You’ve got it all wrong; just stop what you’re doing!

The nurse then comments:

“Having a student is such a pain and I really don’t have time to deal with your incompetence!”

The nurse then leaves you alone in the room with the patient, who is very upset with the outburst of the nurse. You try to calm down, complete the dressing, and clear away the dressing trolley. As you leave the room, you try to find the nurse you have been working with to discuss what has just happened

Please structure the essay in the following way :

Introduction: State the chosen scenario and the concepts and framework you will use in your essay. This first paragraph should provide the thesis statement in the first sentence and the overview of main points or brief plan for what will be included in your essay.

Identification of the concepts, communication framework and nursing tools: Selectthe concepts, communication framework and nursing communication tool/s to be applied to the scenario. Explain how they are relevant to your chosen scenario. Discuss why they are suitable, including the relevant positive or negative aspects of the concepts, framework and nursing tools that are important considerations for nurses). Write one paragraph here with the first sentence of the paragraph providing the main point – the concepts and the communication framework – and their relationship to the scenario. In the rest of the paragraph, discuss their suitability and their positive and negative aspects for nurses, using evidence from the literature.

Analysis of the Communication Scenario): Analyse the communication scenario and identify the nursing concepts and governances that have impacted onthe interpersonal communication displayed in the scenario. Draw upon some literature to support your analysis of the communication scenario. Use two paragraphs here with each paragraph’s main point relating to a reason why the communication in the scenario is not effective. The rest of each paragraph will explain and support the main point by referring to the evidence and relating it to the scenario using examples.

A pplication of the chosen concepts, communication framework and nursing communication tools: Discuss how the use of the concepts, framework and tools can improve communication within the chosen scenario and support your discussion with reference to evidence based literature. Use at least 2 paragraphs here, with each paragraph’s main point explaining an area of effective communication. The rest of each paragraph will explain and support the main points by referring to the evidence and relating it to the scenario using examples.

Conclusion: Briefly restate the case scenario and your chosen nursing concepts, communication framework and nursing communication tools, and summarise how they were relevant. Summarise the main ways you applied them to enhance the communication within the chosen scenario. Use one paragraph for this conclusion, restating your thesis statement, providing an overview of main points and providing a concluding sentence or two, that rounds out your learning from the assignment.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

Communication Within Nursing Assignment

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.