Professional Communication: Cultural Sensitivity Suliat Ogunlana Grand Canyon University NUR-502 Theoretical Foundations for Nursing Roles and Practice Dr. Nora Hamilton April 22, 2015

As a nurse, professional communication is paramount, either communicating with our patients, their family members, our colleagues and other healthcare workers. Its also very important to be culturally competent as a nurse because we see and take care of people from different works of life. According to DeNisco & Barker, communication is a complex process of transmitting a message between a sender and a receiver (DeNisco & Barker, 2015). There are different types of communication, it is more than the exchange of verbal information; in fact, and the majority of communication...