Multidisciplinary approach to patient communication.
The nursing team in a 28-bed rehabilitation ward for older people at South Cleveland Hospital recognised a need to improve communications between patients, carers, relatives and members of the medical team. They developed a model for a patients, families and carers clinic to address these issues. This was then tested in the ward over a three-month period, a pilot that continued after the ward had been modified to a 20-bed stroke unit.
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D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D014789:Visitors to Patients