The Legitimacy Of Effective Communication In Health Care

Personal and Professional Healthcare Communication

To be able to care for ourselves and other when there are sick we must be able to learn how to communicate successfully. I will attempt to define communication, the relevancy of effective personal health care communication with other health care professional, clients, and patients. The relevancy of effective professional health care communication to health outcome, how the lack of effective personal and professional health care communications contributes to poor health outcomes, and the theories and principles of therapeutic communication in health care settings for the health care professional. “Communication is the process of sharing information using a set of common rules. Communication involves a transfer of information between a source and the receiver”. (Northouse, 1998, p. 2).Health care communication is also an effective line of communication between medical professional and patients, for example, a social worker and nurse. An essential component of the communication of health care providers is the ability to provide information which can improve patients understanding. Health care communication can be in the form of conversations
This entails aspects like the sensory reception of information, brain processing and sensory and feedback mechanisms and learning. The most important sensory modalities that aid in the understanding of human communication are auditory, visual and kinesthetic. There are individuals who will pick up visual gestures faster than the auditory clues while some are multimodal. Professional should take into consideration the patient’s social background, education level, culture, beliefs and