Teach Me How To Communicate!
Communication
Communication Model
Communication Types
Verbal is when you use words, as in talking to someone in able for you to communicate with the other person.
Nonverbal is the type of communication when you can use touch, gestures, and body language in order to communicate with a person.
You can also join these two types of communications, while you are speaking to someone you can be using gestures and be looking at your partner while communicating.
Communication Process
Engagement stands for the connection between the healthcare professional and the patient. It can develop partnership.
Understanding, this is when the healthcare professional empathizes with their patient, and they also make them and help them feel accepted.
Education, you have to increase your patients knowledge on their illness or on whats going on. This can by using the language that the patient understands, and answering all the questions that you are asked.
Sense of Partnership, both the healthcare professional and their patient work together to find out more about the problem and the treatment plan they are going to be using.
Team Communication
We have all different types of ways to communicate.
- Written Reporting
- Oral Reporting.
- Technology Fax
- Internet
... Are all ways that a health care professional and a patient can communicate.