Nurses play a pivotal role in promoting access to culturally competent health care services for those who experience linguistic and cultural barriers. Nursing strategies to facilitate and enhance the ...

Chinenye Ubah discusses the issue of communication in healthcare, highlighting some of the experiences of international ...

A new review article highlights the importance of developing asthma action plans and clear lines of communication. The presence of asthma action plans (AAPs) and deliberate communication between ...

Effective communication is one of the foundations of good nursing care. The honest forms of nurse-patient communication include verbal and non-verbal communication (e.g., body language, facial ...

Healthcare workers in the United States continue to experience high levels of job-related stress and burnout, particularly among nurses in the frontlines of healthcare delivery. Burnout is an ...

Perception of helpfulness of a question prompt sheet among cancer patients attending outpatient palliative care. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Palliative and Supportive Care in ...

Communication breakdown among nurses and doctors is one of the primary reasons for patient care mistakes in the hospital. And since care quality is increasingly linked to reimbursement, those mistakes ...

Serious gaps in communication have been found between physicians and home health care agencies responsible for caring for often elderly patients discharged from hospitals. The problem, the study said, ...

MONTREAL & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UbiSim (www.ubisimvr.com), the world’s first immersive virtual reality (VR) training platform built specifically for nurses and nursing simulation by Labster ...

CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures. The nurse communication star rating combines data from three HCAHPS survey questions and summarizes how well patients feel ...

Wisconsin leads the nation with 44 hospitals earning five-star nurse communication ratings, according to new federal data ...

A first step toward improving communications with the deaf pa tient is to be familiar with the various forms of communication he or she uses in daily life. Two or more of the following means of ...