- Instructions:
View the video entitled “Effective communication in nursing” which can be found on the unit Blackboard site
under the ‘assessment’ tab (click on the ‘assessment’ tab and choose ‘Assessment 3’ from the blue table).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CCkizbbS4
The video clearly presents themes and issues that challenge professional nursing practice contrasted with
positive examples that enhance professional practice, perceptions and patient experience.
Examples of these themes and issues are:
Development of therapeutic relationships and caring attributes demonstrated by nurses
Professional presentation, language and attitudes of nurses
Respect and maintaining dignity for patients
Appropriate use of social media and technology
Professional communication, provision of information and handover
Interdisciplinary care
Your task is to:
1. Choose one of these issues/themes evident in the video that relates to individual patient needs.
2. Drawing upon contemporary literature, justify the importance of this issue/theme to:
3. Further, drawing upon the ANMC National Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse
You may choose one of the themes identified above or you may choose another theme you
identified in the video. (Consult with your tutor if you choose another theme).
Patient care
The nurse and professional image and behaviour
Health outcomes
(2005) (found on the unit Blackboard site under week 1 readings), identify one specific domain
AND up to a maximum of three individual elements within this domain that relate to the
issue/theme you are discussing. Using current literature justify why you have chosen the
particular domain and corresponding elements and how they relate to meeting individual patient
needs.
