Nurse-patient interaction and communication: A systematic literature review

A meta-synthesis study of literature review and systematic review published in nurse prescribing

  Background :Prescribing represents a new aspect of practice for nurses. To make qualitative results more accessible to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers, individuals are urged to synthesize findings from related studies. Therefore this study aimed to aggregate and interpret existing literature review and systematic studies to obtain new insights on nurse prescription.   Methods : Thi...

Nurse-patient interaction: a review of the literature.

AIMS The aims of this paper are to review a theoretical model useful for developing nursing knowledge related to nurse-patient interaction, review the literature on nurse-patient interaction, and discuss areas for further research. THEORETICAL MODEL: Goffman's theory of face work. RESULTS Nurse-patient interaction is a central element of clinical nursing practice. This paper shows how Goffman...

Patient-Provider Interaction: A Communication Accommodation Theory Perspective

This paper critically reviews studies that have interpretively invoked communication accommodation theory (CAT) for the study of patient-provider interaction. CAT’s sociolinguistic strategies—approximation, interpretability, interpersonal control, discourse management, and emotional expression—are succinctly introduced and their use in studies of patient-provider interaction discussed. The majo...

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...

Observing nurse-patient interaction