Abstract
Background:An appropriate and effective nurse-patient communication is of the most important aspect of caring. The formation and continuation of such a relationship depends on various factors such as the conditions and context of communication and a mutual understanding between the two. A review of the literature shows that little research is carried out on identification of such barriers in hospital wards between the patients and the healthcare staff.Objectives:The present study was therefore conducted to explore the experiences of nurses and patients on communication barriers in hospital cardiac surgery wards.Design and Methods:This qualitative research was carried out using a content analysis method (Graneheim & Lundman, 2004). The participants were selected by a purposeful sampling and consist of 10 nurses and 11 patients from the cardiac surgery wards of three teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. Data was gathered by unstructured interviews. All interviews were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim.Results:Findings were emerged in three main themes including job dissatisfaction (with the sub-themes of workload tension and decreased motivation), routine-centered care (with the sub-themes of habitual interventions, routinized and technical interventions, and objective supervision), and distrust in competency of nurses (with the sub-themes of cultural contrast, less responsible nurses, and their apathy towards the patients).Conclusions:Compared to other studies, our findings identified different types of communication barriers depending on the nursing settings. These findings can be used by the ward clinical nursing managers at cardiac surgery wards to improve the quality of nursing care.
Highlights
Effective and skillful communication is a crucial and an important element in the quality of nursing care (Fleischer et al, 2009)
Compared to other studies, our findings identified different types of communication barriers depending on the nursing settings
These findings can be used by the ward clinical nursing managers at cardiac surgery wards to improve the quality of nursing care
Summary
Effective and skillful communication is a crucial and an important element in the quality of nursing care (Fleischer et al, 2009). Employing effective communication skills as a valuable tool enables nurses to assess patients' needs and provide them with the appropriate physical care, emotional support, knowledge transfer and exchange of information (Caris-Verhallen et al, 2004). Communication is a multidimensional, complex and dynamic process (Sheldon et al, 2006) and has been considered to be the most important part of a nursing routine job referred to since Florence Nightingale in the 19th century (Fleischer et al, 2009). To establish a proper skillful relationship with the patients, the nursing staff attitude should be changed to a www.ccsenet.org/gjhs. An appropriate and effective nurse-patient communication is of the most important aspect of caring. A review of the literature shows that little research is carried out on identification of such barriers in hospital wards between the patients and the healthcare staff
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