NUR1 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Conflict Resolution, Communication Problems, Active Listening
11 Nov 2012
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Because communication facilitates all family functioning, intervention efforts need to focus on increasing family members" abilities to express and respond to needs and concerns, and to negotiate system change to meet new demands. Family communication scale (olson, barnes, 2006: www. google. com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=family+communication+scale&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8. Nurse needs to take time to invite family to tell their story. To share their unique perspectives and lived experiences of how they perceive their patterns of communication promoting or inhibiting family health. Family health nurses should offer appropriate referrals when working with families with communication problems. Informal teaching, role modeling, cognitive intervention, affective intervention, behavioural intervention, collaborative plan, supporting and commending change, feedback and evaluation of change outcome. If one or more family members are in agreement about solving the problem can ask: Barriers: when family members try to protect one another from painful or threatening information through silence, secrecy, or distortion, health care professionals who make assumptions about client situations (faulkner, 1998)
