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Students will submit the assessment as an academic essay (1000 words) via Turnitin. No paper copy of this assessment will be accepted for marking. You are required to answer the following : Discuss why effective nurse-patient communication is critical to promote therapeutic nurse-patient relationships and patient safety. In your answer discuss the concepts of verbal and non-verbal communication skills, person centred care and effective documentation. Students are required to choose one of the three (3) patient scenarios to answer this essay. You will use examples from the scenarios to discuss how the nurse would use verbal and non-verbal communication skills, person centred care, and effective documentation to develop a therapeutic relationship with the patient. You have been provided with three (3) set readings. These set readings and additional sources must be referenced using the correct APA style both in-text in the essay and on the reference list. In addition to the set readings that you paraphrase, summarise and reference in your essay, you must also paraphrase, summarise and reference two (2) other relevant, reliable and current academic sources in your essay. One (1) of the additional sources must be a nursing journal article and one (1) must be from a reputable nursing website source or report (e.g. the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia codes and guidelines). Correct Writing Style-Students will write an essay that has the following elements: – The essay is appropriately structured and contains an introduction, a middle, and a conclusion; – All ideas that come from another source of information, such as a journal article, a book, a website, or a report are appropriately referenced using the American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.) referencing style as per the Western Sydney University American Psychological Association referencing style guide, which is available from the Western Sydney University Library website; – The essay is written in a formal tone, without the use of colloquial or slang words/ expressions; 7 – The essay is an objective discussion about professional communication in nursing and therefore should be written in the third person (he/she/it or they/them/their); – The essay is written clearly and concisely using correct spelling and grammar and written in complete sentences and paragraphs (bullet point summaries are NOT acceptable in academic essays). – You are recommended to regularly submit early drafts of your essay to Turnitin. Use your preliminary Originality Report to reflect on the feedback, and make improvements to your writing and APA referencing in-text and the reference list. You are expected to ensure you have summarised and acknowledged all sources and that your Turnitin Originality Report contains only an acceptable small percentage matching. You can submit multiple times to Turnitin. However, only your final submission to Turnitin will be recorded for marking.

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Running Head: THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PATIENT SAFETY	1
THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PATIENT SAFETY	2
ROLE OF NURSE-PATIENT COMMUNICATION IN PROMOTING THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND PATIENT SAFETY 
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Role of Effective Nurse-Patient Communication Promoting Patient Safety and Nurse-Patient Therapeutic Relationships	3
Use of verbal and non-verbal communication skills	4
Person-centred care	5
Use of effective documentation	6
Conclusion	6
References	7
Introduction
	Communication is a medium through which people share their thinking, ideas, feelings, and information with each other. Mode of communication can be verbal, non-verbal or written. Communication is important part of every individual’s life. In nursing, communication is necessity of the profession. Nurses communicate with many different types of people every day. For example, they communicate with doctors to take the instructions or give details about the condition of the patients. 
They communicate with family members of the patients about their conditions or for knowing their medical history. They communicate with their fellow colleagues. Their main interaction occurs with their patients throughout the day. They discuss about their conditions or give details of their medical conditions. Communication between nurse and their patients help in developing therapeutic relationship and promote patients’ safety.
Role of Effective Nurse-Patient Communication Promoting Patient Safety and Nurse-Patient Therapeutic Relationships
	Nurse-patients communication helps in developing the therapeutic relationship with patients. As noted by Fakhr-Movahedi, Rahnavard, Salsali and Negarandeh (2016), development of therapeutic relationship allows the patient to express their true feelings and experiences with their patients. As noted by Vaismoradi, Jordan and Kangasniemi (2015), nurse-patient therapeutic relationship helps in providing safety to the patients. For example, women facing domestic violence at homes can describe her true condition to the nurse and nurse take relevant action to prevent her from facing the same situation again. Nurses can develop therapeutic relationship with patients verbally, non-verbally, through documentation or during patient-centred care. 
Use of verbal and non-verbal communication skills 
	Registered nursing practice is mainly designed to engage purposely in professional and therapeutic relationships. This includes establishing, sustaining relationship with patients, by communicating with patients effectively by respecting their dignity, culture, values and beliefs (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2019). As mentioned by Ware (2017), verbal communication is done by using the spoken words. Nurses address the emotions of the patients. They show empathy to the patients suffering from the pain. Through their words, they facilitate the patient so that they become adjustable with their surrounding environment. 
As noted by Mace et al. (2017), relieving the patients in the time of fear and stress develop as trustworthy relationship.

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