1. Nurse-Patient Communication, Interdisciplinary Communication, and Patient Safety (40 points)

**please use principles from your reading assignment to answer the questions that you will be addressing in your paper. You should have no more than 1 direct quote per page. This would allow you to critically think through the knowledge you have learned and put information into your own words with properly citing information.

This assessment requires you address the following topics:

• Define each of the seven principles of patient- clinician communication

• Explain how you apply three of these to your interactions with your own patients—use specific examples from your own clinical nursing practice.

• Describe the three methods being used to improve interdisciplinary communication

• Choose the one that you think applies best to your own area of practice, or the one that your area of practice currently uses, and clearly describe how you use it.

• Explain the ethical principles that can be applied to issues in patient-clinician communication

• Explain the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is influenced by good or bad team communication.

Overview

This assessment requires you address the following topics:

• Define the seven principles of patient- clinician communication
• Explain how you apply each of these to your interactions with your own patients
• Describe the three methods being used to improve interdisciplinary communication
• Choose the one that you think applies best to your own area of practice, or the one that your area of practice currently uses, and clearly describe how you use it.
• Explain the ethical principles that can be applied to issues in patient-clinician communication
• Explain the importance of ethics in communication and how patient safety is influenced by good or bad team communication

Make sure you also include a clear, separate introduction and conclusion as a part of this assignment, as these are worth separate points on the grading rubric.

References

Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)

Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMed or CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases.

Style

Unless otherwise specified, all the written assignment must follow APA 6th edition formatting, citations and references.

Number of Pages/Words

Unless otherwise specified all papers should have a minimum of 600 words (approximately 2.5 pages) excluding the title and reference pages

textbook: burkhardt &nathaniel (2013) ch 18,19,20