title: Communication: an important assessment and teaching tool.
abstract: Communication, as a process, is essential to adequate nursing care; language is a key factor. This article reviews the aspects of language that impair, and those that improve, communication in the health care setting. Standards are cited, along with recommendations for developing optimal communication skills within nursing's professional practice area. This includes the importance of using interpreters when language is a barrier.
authors: Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, USA.
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Dreger
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000592:standards; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000592:standards; D014175:Translating