HCA 230 Healthcare Roles in Communication

Health Care Roles in Communication

Health Care Roles in Communication

Health care communication can be created by various influences together with personal goals, skills, cultural orientations, circumstantial factors, and thoughtfulness of other people's opinions. Communication skills in a health care setting consist of: explanation of diagnosis, analysis and medication, linking the patient in the decision-making, communicating with other health care professionals and dealing with nervous patients. Communicating effectively is more than putting thoughts into words. Comprehending other people's opinions and plainly expressing one's own are important characteristics of communication. Kreps and Barbara Thornton (1992) define health communication as...