OVERVIEW: Effective nurse–physician communication is essential to care, especially that of older adults, who often have comorbidities that can lead to frequent moves between care settings. This article examines the current state of nurse– physician communication and presents suggestions on how to improve it, including developing relationships, defining communication strategies, and packaging in...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Night teams of hospital providers have become more common in the wake of resident physician duty hour changes. We sought to examine relationships between nighttime communication and parents' inpatient experience. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of parents (n = 471) of pediatric inpatients (0-17 years) from May 2013 to October 2014. Parents rated their ...

This paper focuses on a serious-game framework for a dialogue-driven game called GLIMPSE (A Game to Learn Important Communications Methods for Patient Safety Enhancement). The eight essential components of the framework include: recommended communication behavior; accurate translation; narrative-driven, role-playing episodes that allow practice in different challenging situations; perspective s...

PROBLEM Nurse-physician communication affects patient safety. Such communication has been well studied using a variety of survey and observational methods; however, missing from the literature is an investigation of what constitutes effective and ineffective interprofessional communication from the perspective of the professionals involved. The purpose of this study was to explore nurse and phy...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive discharge education can improve patient understanding and may reduce unnecessary rehospitalization. OBJECTIVES To understand nurse and physician communication practices around patient discharge education. SETTING University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSFMC). PARTICIPANTS Nurses, interns, and hospitalists caring for hospitalized medicine patients...

background: communication is the key role in the nursing profession. nurse-patient communication is highly important especially when the patient is a child. studies indicate inappropriate contact with children in the pediatric wards. this study investigated effect of training on communication skills of nurse with child through small group discussion. methods: this study is a clinical trial with...