The article focuses on how the nurses are the main communication source between patient and surgical team. Nurses essentially are the main circuit of providing concise and clear information to the surgical team about their patients as they are being handed off. The article goes in depth of how problems in communication arise between nurses and surgical teams as the communication can fail due to stress or high-task situations that could compromise the conciseness and completion of information of the patients over to the surgical team. The articles focuses on how poor communication affects the patient in more ways than their health or safety, and how this poorly reflects on the nursing community. Thankfully feedback from patients have allowed the nursing community to evolve in their communication standards as the community has created a Safety Surgical Checklist in 2015 to minimize errors in the field and allow for nurses and surgeons to reduce stress in the work field. In the article it explains how the use of checklists promote clearer information and concise communication between the medical …show more content…
My new theory of communication is nurses are the main junction of communication between patients and other medical teams. The strength of their communication depends on the accuracy of their content and the exchange of important information. Nurses must also take into account of their audience, whether they must use terminology with their coworkers or layman’s terms with patients. The success to their communication also incorporates how they interact with certain constraints, such as high-task situations or distracts that occur in the workplace. Essentially nurses are responsible in all areas of communication, whether it is a change in audience, constraints that occur, the clarity of their content or any rhetorical situations that happen. Nurses are the main entity within their medical community to provide accurate information and superior communication in the