Florence Nightingale Communication

Introduction

Florence Nightingale pioneered professionalization of modern nursing in the United Kingdom in the late 19 century. Since then, the nursing practice has undergone numerous changes. Correspondingly, the Royal College Nursing (RCN), which was first started in 1916, has also undergone drastic changes to what is being witnessed today. Even though the original idea of Florence Nightingale of compassion has been maintained, the 6Cs are paramount to RCN members in contemporary practice. The 6 Cs include competence, courage, commitment, care, compassion and commitment. On average, care is the primary concept of health care organizations. Through nursing practice, care delivered is aimed at enhancing the wellbeing of the community. Compassion

During this period, patient and nurse exchange valuable information, which is then used to individualize their care plan, per specific needs of the patient. Incidentally, communication is classified as the process of exchanging information between two or more parties. While utilizing the listening and attending aspect of communication, nurses are expected to assess and analyze health status of a person using the details provided during the first contact. While utilizing the factors outlined, nurses are supposed to make an assessment or align the signs and symptoms of the patient with disease or disorder. If the nurse does not listen and observe the patient carefully, there are high chances some features of the patient's health will be left out when classifying the signs and symptoms. Furthermore, advanced diagnosis practices are based on the information gathered at the first contact. For that reason, incomplete recording of patient's information leads to misdiagnosis, inadequate therapeutic strategies and prolonging the treatment process (Darley 2002). Recommending the wrong prescriptions may lead to adverse reactions on the patient's health, inflicting more suffering to the

A considerable amount of healthcare professional communication is achieved through written forms and given the preventable nature of communication failure, understanding how healthcare professionals use document and documentation in their interconnected work is vital to improving patient safety (Braaf et al. 2015).Nurses have roles and responsibilities in direct care and therefore spend more time with patient than do other members of the healthcare team, there assessment and observations is thus crucial information that must be effectively communicated to their colleagues and other team members to enable them to make best-practice decisions ( Riley2017) , hence the significance of communication attribute in nursing. Nurses work in shifts or duty rotation due to the nature and urgency of services delivery in healthcare facilities. Besides, caring for the patients is a continuous process. Clinical handover takes place when a nurse on duty is transferring accountability, information, and responsibility for a single or set of patients. consequently, staff should communicate effectively with each other to ensure continuity, safety, and quality of care (Casey and Wallis 2011). Ineffective handover has been associated with incorrect treatment, delays in medical diagnosis, adverse events, patients’ complaints, increased hospital length of stay, amplified care costs and