Discussion Post
Put questions and give directions: Select one listed question to respond to your initial posting to Instructor. The peer review, select one peer review reflecting your response from one question from your peers.
• Patient safety continues to be one of the most pressing health care challenges in the nation today. Explain how threats to an adult's safety are frequently associated with life style habits, how injuries can be related to physiological changes in the aging process, mental status changes related to taking multiple medications (polypharmacy), and when to use restraints?
• Effective therapeutic communication occurs when there is an exchange of information, ideas, attitudes, and emotions; therefore, successful communication occurs when the message intended is the message received.
• How is effective therapeutic communication a basic skill in providing health care to clients, nurses communicate with other health care providers and health care consumers (clients), and their support systems (family, significant others) in which nurses apply critical thinking to the communication process?
• Explain to students: Go to the 2 documents for explanation and directions at the beginning of week one discussion questions.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.