Discuss why effective nurse-patient communication is critical to promote therapeutic nurse-patient relationships and patient safety. Based on your readings and on the particular characteristics of the patient you choose, discuss how the nurse would: 1. incorporate person-centred care 2. use patient safety and communication 3. use therapeutic relationship and communication. Answering this question in an essay format has three objectives: To assist you to develop academic reading and writing skills. To help you integrate knowledge about effective communication for developing therapeutic relationships (as discussed in the set readings for this unit). To demonstrate how these principles are applied in the care of the patient. This assignment supports unit learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3. Assignment details Students will submit this assignment through Turnitin as an academic essay (1,000 words) based on the set readings and reliable additional sources. You are required to choose one of the three patient scenarios (George Pham, Helen Henderson or Chester Abioye) to answer the essay prompt. You have been provided with three set readings found under the ‘supporting resources’ section, which have been taken from set weekly chapter readings in the eTexts for this unit. These extracts and additional sources must be referenced using correct APA style both in-text in the essay, and on the reference list. In addition to the three set readings (see extracts below) that you paraphrase, summarise and reference in your essay, you must also paraphrase, summarise and reference two relevant, reliable and current academic sources in your essay. One of the additional sources must be a nursing journal article, and one must be from a reputable nursing website source or report (. the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia [NMBA] codes and guidelines). Note: the reference list is not included in the word count. Supporting resources Scenarios Scenario 1 George Pham (PDF 205 KB) Scenario 2 Helen Henderson (PDF 180 KB) Scenario 3 Chester Abioye (PDF 210 KB). Provided readings Extract 1 – Person-centred care (Links to an external site.) from your Hill, Hall & Glew eText (pp. 1314). Only read from ‘Person-centred care’ until and including, the section titled ‘Barriers to person-centred care’. Do not read Box . Extract 2 – Therapeutic relationship and communication (Links to an external site.) from your Hill, Hall & Glew eText (pp. 130). Only read from ‘Therapeutic relationship and communication’ until the sentence ending ‘focused on person-centred care’. Extract 3 – Patient safety and communication (Links to an external site.) from your Levett-Jones eText (pp. 57).
