Nurse-Worker Communication

Charlotte Rhone: nurse, welfare worker, and entrepreneur.

Charlotte Rhone, a pioneering African American nurse born in Craven County, North Carolina, at the end of the post–Civil War Reconstruction era, grew up in a society shaped by the harshly discriminatory Jim Crow laws enacted in her home state and in others across the American South. Her choices in education and employment were severely limited because of these racist policies, but Rhone’s tenac...

design and validating the nurse-patient communication skills questionnaire

introduction: evaluation of nurse-patient communication skills have been strongly emphasized in order to ensure the possibility of effective communication as well as assessment of the effect of communication skills training programs. reaching this goal requires the use of standard instruments which is based on the native culture of the target group. due to the absence of native instruments in t...

Nurse Communication About Goals of Care

Conversations about goals of care with the patient and family are a critical component of advanced practice in oncology. However, there are often inadequate team structures, training, or resources available to assist advanced practitioners in initiating these conversations. We conducted a study to assess nurses' perceived role and communication tasks in such conversations about goals of care. I...

Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen-worker dimorphism.

Social evolution in honey bees has produced strong queen-worker dimorphism for plastic traits that depend on larval nutrition. The honey bee developmental programme includes both larval components that determine plastic growth responses to larval nutrition and nurse components that regulate larval nutrition. We studied how these two components contribute to variation in worker and queen body si...

Running head: IMPROVING NURSE-PHYSICIAN COMMUNICATION 1 Improving Nurse-Physician Communication: Analyzing Ethical Codes to Promote Solutions