Effects that a nurse should expect when effective communication is demonstrated among the hospitalized child, family, and nurse include:
- a. Decrease in anxiety felt by the patient and/or other family members
- b. Improved coping strategies by the hospitalized child
- c. A sense of trust between the family and nursing staff
<h3>What is effective communication?</h3>
Effective communication is said to have taken place when information is passed from the sender and transmitted to the receiver and the receiver understands the information and gives feedback.
It can be seen that there are things in play here and the most important is understanding. Communication cannot be effective if there is no understanding of the information passed through. Moreover, there will never be communication if there were no sender, medium of transmission and receiver.
As regards the question, at a point, the sender is the hospitalized child and the family. The medium of communication should be talking to the nurse with there mouth while the nurse is the receiver. The sender and receiver exchange roles at some points.
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