Nurse Practitioners Communication Skills

This paper will first discuss how a pregnant, anxious, sixteen year old patient will need to be approached and cared for by healthcare professionals, in this case a staff nurse in a hospital ward, it will consider how interpersonal communication skills can be applied to improve the patient outcome, before outlining the legal issues of consent. Following, it will then continue to discuss moral and ethical issues in healthcare and consider the patients’ rights, dignity, preferences, beliefs and cultures. Then proceeding to describe how an individual’s health could be affected by their psychological wellbeing and economic and social status.

Approaching the patient known as Emma who is vulnerable, agitated and upset and who is also pregnant
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