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Explain how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.

Create a 6–8-slide PowerPoint presentation that describes communication barriers within an interdisciplinary team and how those barriers affect patient safety and health care outcomes. Offer a solution in which you recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within the team and explain how the strategies benefit the team and patients. The ability to effectively communicate as […]

Describe the types of communication that occur between nurses and clients/patients.

Prepare a 3–4-page report on nurse-patient communication in which you address types of communication, factors that influence the communication experience, and how the patient experience affects health outcomes. Recommend evidence-based strategies to improve nurse-patient communication and explain how the strategies consider patient demographics. Nursing professionals do not only communicate with others within their organizations—often, they […]