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Communication, Clinical Competence, And More: What Are the Top Skills to Be a Nurse?

Post University

Key soft skills include: Communication and Interpersonal Skills Communication is at the heart of everything nurses do. To be effective communicators, nurses should master essentials such as active listening and nonverbal communication skills. This enables them to understand and interact with their patients.

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Immigration Detention Nursing – ensuring the best health outcomes

The Nurse Break

The day includes attending a variety of meetings to ensure good communication between stakeholders and clinical staff. The role includes managing the healthcare of all the clients in our care, working as a team to ensure the best health outcome. The role as HSM is very varied and never the same.

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National Patient Safety Goals Depend on Good Communication

Relias

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. Improve staff communication. Use medicines safely. Use alarms safely. Prevent infection.

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Communicative action, a path through the dissonance between nursing and corporate healthcare values

Nursing Inquiry

Yet, constrained by the conflicts between neoliberal values in an economized system and the values of care that inspire many to join the healthcare profession, nurses may lose the ability to live up to their moral ideals, to champion social justice, and to improve public health outcomes.

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Understanding Racial Concordance In The Nursing Field

Diversity Nursing

Racial concordance signifies the connection between the racial or ethnic backgrounds of patients and their healthcare providers, showcasing its profound impact on patient care, communication, trust, and overall health outcomes. This trust can lead to greater adherence to treatment plans and better health outcomes.

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Understanding Social Determinants of Health

Diversity Nursing

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and the broader array of influences and structures impacting everyday living. These determinants are the key drivers of health disparities, leading to unjust and preventable health outcomes.

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Women voice their need for personalised risk messaging, effectively balancing a 'better safe than sorry approach with a need for evidence-based risk communication

Evidence-Based Nursing

Future research can usefully identify inequities evident in risk communication including risks that receive greater attention and how responsibilities are distributed for fetal health and pregnant women.