Improving Nurse-Patient Communication

For instance, the district hospital that I work for receives a large number of diverse patients speaking foreign languages, so the hospital has provided two language line phones along with a 200 languages list card in each unit for 24 hours a day and 7 days a week access to help interpret for patients who do not speak English. These approaches significantly improved nurse-patient communication and outcomes. Another example is that nurses are required to check patient's food tray during meal times to assure culture-specific needs are met for those who can not have pork meat included in their diet due to religious
reasons.