Being able to communicate with various different people is vital when working in the care industry. Communication between the service users and staff is the most obvious and important. However, communication has to take place between staff and the family of the service users. This is because having a bond with the family as well as the child allows both participants to feel more comfortable in the environment and ensures the family that their child is in a good place. It is also crucial that colleagues are able to communicate at a sufficient standard as well. The reason for this is that when working with people who need care can be very stressful at times, therefore not getting along with a colleague may cause more stress within the care setting.
People communicate in order to establish and maintain relationships with others, to give and receive info and instructions, to understand and be understood, to share opinions, knowledge, feelings, and emotions, to give encouragement and show others they are valued. Communication is an essential tool a carer can use to meet the needs of people. It is the basic requirement of the job role to communicate with individuals and staff members on a daily basis. Communicating with other staff members ensures effective team working and continuity of care. It also ensures any health and safety issues and recognised and reported.
In health and social care effective communication a key skill all professionals should have when working with families, carers, children and young people. Having this skill helps to build trust it can also encourage the individual to use the services. Effective communication is essential when trying to establish and maintain relationships and it is a process that involves listening, questioning, responding and understanding. However there are many barriers that can effect how effective the communication is a few examples of these barriers could be: language, personality, visual or auditory impairment or a disability. In order to over come these barriers there have been many advances in the strategies that can help in situations where the
The different reason people communicate is to show pain, anger, joy, love etc. It is important for people communicate so their views, wishes and information gets across. The communication could be formal or informal. Documentation and record keeping is important in the social care sector as this information may be used for legal reasons. All communications is confidential and are on a “need to know” basis. Communication between colleagues and other healthcare professionals is essential, as it ensures continuity of care. It also shows staff are aware of the current needs of the client.
Aii) Describe two ways how effective communication can affect relationships in an adult social care setting between individuals using the service, their carers, colleagues and other Practitioners.
Communication is very important to meet the needs of children, with families and other members of staff on a daily basis to ensure effective team working. It also ensures any health and safety issues are recognised and reported. People communicate with each other for different reasons;
As a care assistant effective communication is a vital skill in the workplace, on an everyday basis. I use all of these below to help promote and ensure the wellbeing of all service users and my colleagues.
Janes communication strengths and needs both directly and indirectly impact her and her family. I will discuss these potential impacts by utilising the health and social care PIES model. Firstly, I will discuss the physical influences which occurred because of Jane’s TBI. Initially, the oro-motor assessment indicates that Jane’s face is symmetrical and that she can accurately copy non-speech sounds. This is advantageous as she can swallow and eat her food successfully by manipulating her tongue and moving the bolus to her oesophagus. Being able to swallow will give Jane independence and will ensure her family does not have to feed her.
I observed an infant who is 1 month old, her name is Bianca. During my observations hours I could observe that the baby communicate with an adult not by words, but through expressions, gestures, and sounds. At the time when the baby wanted to eat, I saw that she started moving her head from one side to another and also she opened her mouth really big, at the time the adult told me that it was almost her time to eat, the adult waited until the time she had to eat, and the baby started to cry, it makes me think that she was communicated with the adult telling her that she was hungry by crying, while the adult was preparing her formula the baby put her hand in her mouth and she was still crying and crying, after that the adult gave her formula to the baby and she ate the milk so quickly, and she slept.
Within this following assignments it will discuss, and compare the range of skill that are used within interpersonal communication, throughout the health and social care sector, and the interactions barriers that we have to vdeal with when working with work colleagues, and outside agency , as well as looking after our clients groups. As Health care workers who work within the health and social care sector, the method which we tend to use when caring for our clients, throughout the NHS, is person centred care. We are trained to use the following aspects, which is to respect the needs, and wishes, at all times of every person, we come in to contact with. Which then, therefore helps these people and your fellow co-workers, know that you have
People deal with a lot of things in their life whether it is professional or personal. I had an incident in my life that was a professional matter; in the pass when I was working at a caregiving facilities. I had to learn how to deal with mental patients and also the workers. When dealing with the mental patients I had to learn their behavior. I had to figure out how they work with other and what triggered there behaviors. Some of my patients that you didn’t have to do anything with; besides make sure they care for their self properly and reminded them to do thing here and there. I also had some that I had to do hands on and go step by step on the things that they needed to do. A lot of times with patient that you had to remind to do something
The healthcare industry is starving for a simple and reliable means of communication. Caregivers continue to struggle to reach each other on a daily basis, despite the abundance of technology available today. A communication strategy adopted by many healthcare organizations is to utilize mobile devices. The use of personal mobile devices today are remarkably high. Most of the population uses a cell phone. The challenge is how to transition caregivers to use mobile devices as an effective and reliable means of communication. These complexities involved in health care communication protocols are overwhelming and require careful consideration to develop an effective solution. Detailed planning must be exercised to ensure a quality product is provided
and can see what you post on any profile. Therefore social media has made it easy for the national drug manufacturer to be able to become a social media website and post and information that is needed and wanted by its viewers. In this case this type of communication has many pros in the way it can send out information to people all over, targets a wide audience, effective recruitment tool, facilitates open communication, and you are able to deliver communication to the specific person it is intended for.
Promoting physical activity can be great for all ages and populations but for this communication intervention, I will focus on promoting physical activity among adults and older adults. Research stated that adults do not meet the recommended physical activity guidelines in America. So the next step is to take action. What can help increase physical activity in adult’s lives? Well for the most part, adults must be educated on the issue at hand. How do we expect a change to be made if we are not incorporating ways to improve it? Informative physical activity briefings, community service events, social media (Instagram, Facebook), being creative by making colorful posters grabs the audience attention. These channels to the desired audience will discuss the benefits of physical activity, the risks of not conducting physical activity, show examples of how to incorporate physical activity in a busy
Communication is a big role in the nursing environment. Being able to identify communication factors both verbal and non-verbal can help to see how messages are delivered and interpreted differently. It also helps to see if the non-verbal communications match the what is being said, as non-verbal communication is just as important as the verbal. This is also good practice for how you communicate with others around you and how well you can read others reactions to what is being said. Like if they understand what is being said or if they are just saying they understand when they don’t. an example of communication can be seen by the female nurse and the male police officer, the message that the female nurse was trying to give was not being interpreted
As the Communication Coordinator for this national drug manufacturer, today we will need to brainstorm and discuss how we will address the negative effects that our medications are causing to the public. The local news has already started the witch hunt by allegedly reporting that our local mayor has suffered from adverse affects from our medications. How can we address the public regarding this issue without losing business and the trust we created with our investors and our consumers? In today’s meeting we will decide which communication tactic is most suitable for this situation, while making sure that we do not break any