Health Care Communication HCS 350 October 25‚ 2013 Health Care Communication The purpose of this paper is to inform family caregivers on how to enhance communication in health care. Health care communication is the written‚ verbal‚ and nonverbal correspondence between all persons involved in patient care‚ to include the patient. Furthermore‚ this correspondence should be about patient issues‚ not health care personnel. This paper will inform on the importance and relevancy of communication
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Running head: NURSING ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTIONS 1 Nursing Assessment and Interventions to Older Adults With Dementia Karen Montanez Trinitas School of Nursing Abstract This paper explores three published articles that report the different nursing assessments‚ strategies and interventions for patients with dementia. The paper explains the meaning of dementia‚ how to communicate properly with patients who suffer from the disease and techniques
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satisfying relationships. The environment affects caregiver/infant relationships. “Carollee Howes discovered that in family day care homes in which dangerous objects and fragile prized possessions had been removed from the area in which infants and toddlers played‚ caregivers smiled more‚ encouraged exploration‚ and gave fewer negative comments ("Don’t touch that!") to infants and toddlers. In an infant/toddler center‚ a hammock invites a caregiver to cuddle one or two
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Interactions with caregivers can influence the infant’s brain development‚ and scans of infants who had been deprived of social interaction had abnormalities in sections of the brain (Black‚ 2014‚ p.24.). Another important part of this period is the infant’s developing understanding of emotions and attachment. Around age one‚ may exhibit one of several attachment or insecure attachment behaviours depending on their parenting style of the caregiver(s) (Berger‚ K‚ 2011‚ p.205). Jean
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is the unconditioned response. When the infant is being fed‚ the infant associates the person providing the food with the food. The primary caregiver is the neutral stimulus‚ which becomes associated with food (the unconditioned stimulus). When the attachment has been learned‚ the infant gains pleasure when the primary caregiver is present. The primary caregiver is now the conditioned stimulus and pleasure is now the conditioned response. Operant conditioning - When an infant is hungry it is in
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that they are developed with as a child‚ is critical to the development of behaviors and relationships in adulthood. The theory of attachment in based solely around this very principle. The patterns a child displays towards primary caregivers and how those caregivers respond to the needs of that child will predict how that child will respond to relationship and change as an adult. Attachment Theory The forces that drive relationships between individuals and the affects
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been expressed by parents/caregivers and researchers‚ and questions have been raised about possible risks and benefits of these devices on young children who‚ in some instances‚ may be accessing these devices daily. Levin (2013) states that it is as if children are being remote controlled by the scripts of others (television‚ videos‚ electronic toys) which undermine children’s abilities to create their own learning scripts. This study investigated 1‚058 parents’/caregivers’ views of
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of their temperament‚ all infants are capable of and benefit from social interactions. Crying is a primary social behavior in infancy. It attracts parents or caregivers and promotes a social interaction of some type and duration‚ depending on the skill and awareness of the caregiver. Crying also has a survival value; it alerts caregivers to the presence and needs of the infant. However‚ merely meeting the basic needs of infants in a matter of fact is not sufficient to form a firm base for social
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emotions in a way that the caregiver can more easily comprehend. Toddlers use fantasy play to create situations they wish would happen or to recreate a situation they wish had ended differently. Self-control is a toddler’s ability to recover from emotional distress on their own. Toddlers use self-control when they want something they can’t have‚ or when they are forced into a situation they do not want to be in. For example‚ a child may want a candy bar‚ but the caregiver refuses to give it to them
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concerns that may explain by the child’s behavior or symptoms (Corcoran & Walsh‚ 2013). The social worker should conduct interviews with all systems involved in the child’s environment (Corcoran & Walsh‚ 2013). These systems may involve school‚ caregivers‚ any person working closely with the child. The social worker should use a rating tool to give during the interview to show validity and reliability for accurate diagnoses. The NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment tool (American Academy of Pediatrics‚ 2002)
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