Nursing the patient with severe communication impairment

Hemsley, Bronwyn; Sigafoos, Jeff; Balandin, Susan; Forbes, Ralph; Taylor, Christine; Green, Vanessa A.; Parmenter, Trevor R.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01920.x

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“…2 participants highlighted the use of non-verbal communication and 1 shared the use of internet sites for translation. Similarly in Helmsley et al [10] study, majority of the nurses were using low technology equipment such as boards, pen and paper which is different from our study. In our study, 10 percent were using booklets prepared by the unit for translating commonly used words.…”

Section: Level Of Comfortability While Speaking Arabiccontrasting

confidence: 76%

Beyond the Language Barrier 'Speak', 'See', 'Help Me'

Badruddin¹,

Arif²

2017

J Nurs Care

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Introduction: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) workforce is composed of close to 67 different nationalities. Diversity in the nursing workforce is unique in the hospital reason being the expatriates outnumber the Saudi nationals. Staff from different backgrounds provides a different perspective to the clinical care ensuring the hospital standards and policies are adhered to. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), when these new nurses arrive, their grasp of Arabic is limited. It is essential that nurses understand the language of their patients. In intensive care setting, patient's condition is critical and highly specialized nursing care is paramount to the safety of the patient. It poses a challenge for non-Arabic speaking nurses to overcome the language barriers, to ensure high quality care is provided to the patient, maintain patient satisfaction and confidentiality. Therefore, communication tool kit is developed to overcome the language barrier. The tool kit is an educational instrument for non-Arabic speakers by expediting learning most frequent terms and words in Arabic.

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Section: Level Of Comfortability While Speaking Arabiccontrasting

confidence: 76%

Beyond the Language Barrier 'Speak', 'See', 'Help Me'

Badruddin¹,

Arif²

2017

J Nurs Care

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“…In the literature, factors that were recognised to increase the effectiveness of communication with patients were in fact the nurses' prior training and experience working with people from different countries. [21] Additional findings in the current study included the effect of nurses attending specialist communication courses. The implications being that nurses who had not attended specialist courses perceived greater barriers to communication with respect to personal characteristics and job specifications NSACS subscales than the nurses who had attended courses.…”

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Quantitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to nurse-patient communication in Saudia Arabia

Albagawi

Jones

2016

JHA

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Nurses with effective communication skills play a critical role in minimising the stress associated with hospitalisation for both patients and their families. Effective communication has become increasingly reported as a key component in effective health care outcomes, which is even more crucial in countries such as Saudi Arabia with a large foreign healthcare workforce. The presence of a large expatriate workforce with a different language from the host society and the ensuing complexity of sociocultural linguistic and heath beliefs systems has been poorly researched. This study aimed to investigate barriers and facilitators of nurse-patient communication in Saudi Arabia using the Nurses' Self-Administered Communication Survey. The survey was distributed to a random sample of 291 nurses working in medical and surgical departments at five hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The results indicate that the Philippine and Saudi Arabian nurses perceived greater barriers to communication with respect to personal/social characteristics, job specifications and environmental factors then nurses of other nationalities. In addition, nurses with shorter experience in Saudi Arabia perceived greater barriers to communication with respect to the clinical situation of patient and environmental factors than the nurses with longer experience. Lastly, nurses who had not attended specialist courses on communication skills acquisition perceived greater barriers to communication with respect to personal characteristics and job specifications than nurses who had attended such courses. This study highlights the need to better prepare expatriate nurses before they enter the workforce in Saudi Arabia on cultural competence and language skills.

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“…Such difficulties in both spontaneous and posed expressions alongside the dissociation between experience and expression of emotions suggests an underlying physical or neuromotor deficit (Dworkin, Clark, Amador, & Gorman, 1996) rather than a specific deficit in neural or behavioral systems that underpin the experience (Putnam & Kring, 2007 (Jakobs, Manstead, & Fischer, 1999), particularly in those who are preverbal (see Nelson & de Haan, 1997) or for those with impaired speech (Hemsley et al, 2001), such as individuals who develop dementia. As dementia, most notably Alzheimer's disease, progresses, declines are noted in expressive language skills (Faber-Langendoen et al, 1988;Kertesz & Clydesdale, 1994) and consequently the ability to report internal affective states (e.g.…”

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The expression and assessment of emotions and internal states in individuals with severe or profound intellectual disabilities

Adams¹,

Oliver²

2011

Clinical Psychology Review

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The expression of emotions and internal states by individuals with severe or profound intellectual disabilities is a comparatively under-researched area. Comprehensive or standardised methods of assessing or understanding the emotions and internal states within this population, whose ability to communicate is significantly compromised, do not exist.The literature base will be discussed and compared to that within the general population.Methods of assessing broader internal states, notably depression, anxiety, and pain within severe or profound intellectual disabilities are also addressed. Finally, this review will examine methods of assessing internal states within genetic syndromes, including hunger, social anxiety and happiness within Prader-Willi, Fragile-X and Angelman syndrome. This will then allow for the identification of robust methodologies used in assessing the expression of these internal states, some of which may be useful when considering how to assess emotions within individuals with intellectual disabilities.

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Nursing the patient with severe communication impairment

Cited by 116 publications

References 14 publications

Beyond the Language Barrier 'Speak', 'See', 'Help Me'

Beyond the Language Barrier 'Speak', 'See', 'Help Me'

Quantitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to nurse-patient communication in Saudia Arabia

The expression and assessment of emotions and internal states in individuals with severe or profound intellectual disabilities

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