Non-Therapeutic Communication

In 2008 the Clinician-Patient Communication Working Panel made the decision that nurses should no longer maintain non-therapeutic communication in their nurse-patient communication. Instead they must maintain therapeutic communication due to its positive effects on patient’s health condition (Smith, 2015). Non-therapeutic communication thought to increase the risk of abnormal vital signs, such as high blood pressure, high heart rate, high respiratory rate, and high levels of pain. Despite the evidence that non-therapeutic communication can lead to low quality of care, nurses still are not fully trained to maintain therapeutic communication in their nurse-patient communication. The PICOT statement that I developed through my research regarding improvements in nurse-patient communication is; P- in Emergency Departments (ED), I- does therapeutic communication by the nurse, C- compared to non-therapeutic communication by the nurse, O- decrease the patient’s anxiety level and improve the patient’s health condition, T- during the emergency visit period?
The problem of non-therapeutic communication in general is not only the negative effect on the patient’s health condition during the hospital visit, but also it decreases the nurse’s focus on maintaining the nurse-patient relationship. As nurses, our major goal and mission is to help our
These articles must contain information that explains and illustrates the effectiveness of the proposal in multiple ways, such as individual experiences, statistical data, and evidence from scientific studies. Minor resources also are needed to complete this project. These resources will contain examples of therapeutic communication techniques versus non-therapeutic communication techniques. These resources are necessary to support the proposal and to provide information regarding the effectiveness of the change in patient’s quality of