Assignment: Nurse-Patient Communication, Interdisciplinary Communication and Patient Safety
This assignment requires you address the following topics:
1) Define the seven principles of patient- clinician communication
2) Explain how you apply three of the seven principles to your interactions with your own patients
3) Describe the three methods being used to improve interdisciplinary communication
4) Choose the one that you think applies best to your own area of practice, or the one that your area of practice currently uses, and clearly describe how you use it.
5) Explain the ethical principles that can be applied to issues in patient-clinician communication
6) Explain the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is influenced by good or bad team communication
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.