Members of a care team, physicians, nurses, social workers, and even caregivers, don’t talk to each other enough. Inter Departmental Communication is the function that supports organizations to stay proficient and industrious. The importance of communication between various divisions in an organization is a connotation gets to be most obvious when it breaks down. Organization, especially in healthcare, efficiency depends on the communication level of all the departments, especially within a department, that are taking care of the patients. This essay talks about the complications ascending in the organization due to the poor communication amongst the intra-department and resolution to the complications and how it can be reduced at some aspect and level, and develops knowledge sharing between the staff within the department. How do poor communication impact patient outcomes? When it comes to caring for patients and their families, no person or department works alone. It is imperative for all …show more content…
Countless dollars are expended funding studies that try to define the best and safest way to communicate a patient’s condition between different clinicians. Communication in nursing is vital to patient safety, health and well-being. Because nurses are at the center of patient care, it is their responsibility to assure good communication between all healthcare professionals. As nurses assume more complex roles and care for many culturally diverse populations, they will need to strengthen their communication skills and learn to communicate with the other. Communication between all the different care providers of a patient in a healthcare organization is key to preventing unintentional injury to the patient. There are many different ways in which providers can communicate to each other. However, patient harm still occurs due to the lack of communication or incomplete information