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communication

(Discourse), noun collocution, colloquy, communicatio, communiqué, conference, correspondence, dialogue, dissertation, exchange, intercommunication, intercourse, interlocution
Associated concepts: attorney and client communication, conditionally privileged communication, confidential communication, husband and wife communication, physician and patient communication, privileged communication, telegraph communication, telephonic communication, verral communication, written communication

communication

(Statement), noun announcement, annunciation, declaration, disclosure, dissemination, information, message, news, notification, report, revelation, utterance, writing

COMMUNICATION, contracts. Information; consultation; conference.
2. In order to make a contract, it is essential there should be an agreement; a bare communication or conference will not, therefore, amount to a contract; nor can evidence of such communication be received in order to take from, contradict, or alter a written agreement. 1 Dall. 426; 4 Dall. 340; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 609. Vide Pour-parler; Wharton's Dig. Evid. R.

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Therapeutic communication is one of the most valuable tools that nurses have to build rapport or trust.

Quality of nurse patient therapeutic communication and overall patient satisfaction during their hospitalization stay

For meaningful measurements, the 21 variables were grouped into three categories: Establishing Rapport Variables, Non-Verbal Communication Variables, and Therapeutic Communication Variables.

Evaluation of an intervention on socio-cultural communication skills of international nurses

Reality orientation as a TNI (as distinguished from the usual issue of a sense of time or place) is another important aspect of therapeutic communication.

Articulating the value of psychiatric community health nurse interventions: a secondary analysis

Students then returned to the bedside to use therapeutic communication, gather additional information, offer community resources, and complete the abuse assessment tool.

Using simulation to introduce nursing students to caring for victims of elder abuse and intimate partner violence

Caring for parents managing unexpected perinatal loss is a sensitive situation that requires therapeutic communication.

An introduction to unexpected grief for pre-licensure nursing students: a simulation and interprofessional expert panel regarding fetal demise

What many nurses know as nursing practice continues to be unacknowledged, without value, when competency is couched only in prescriptive, instrumental terminology, ie assessments, differential diagnosis, therapies, therapeutic communication, therapeutic interventions, therapeutic links with clients, referrals.

Examining the draft competencies for nurse practitioners: the Nursing Council's draft competencies for nurse practitioners could lock nurse practitioners into existing paradigms of health cure and stifle creativity and innovation in nursing practice

of Ballarat, Australia) offers readers in caring professions with little training in counseling this non- technical guide to using therapeutic communication to help others.

Counselling and interviewing for carers; a basic guide. (CD-ROMs included)

As two law enforcement agencies in Kentucky have discovered, many of the principles of therapeutic communication can be applied in a law enforcement setting.

Therapeutic communication

Opportunities to use adolescent SPs were explored for students to gain skill in performing an adolescent risk assessment and practice therapeutic communication techniques, including talking about sexuality and other charged topics in a professional manner.

Making simulation come alive: standardized patients in undergraduate nursing education

We also need healthy boundaries so we can have therapeutic communication.

Students questions prompt response

Students require practice in therapeutic communication prior to entering the patient care setting (Zavermik, Huff, & Munro, 2010).

Peer-to-peer teaching: improving communication techniques for students in an accelerated nursing program

The year-long course included the historical, legal, ethical and cultural influences on nursing; structure and function; an understanding of the implications of body system changes and appropriate nursing responses; therapeutic communication skills; and how developmental, cultural and social theories impact on the health of individuals, families and the community.