title: Ensuring deafened patients can participate in their health care.
abstract: This article discusses the general effects of adult-acquired deafness in relation to communication methods and barriers, and the difficulties posed by case conferences where professionals gather to discuss and review patients. It also examines how deafened people can be enabled to participate fully in such important meetings, how health professionals can ensure that all the information has been delivered and understood, and achieve their own objectives, and how nurses can play a key role in supporting deafened patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Salford.
authors.forename: Noel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Traynor
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lucas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003638:Deafness / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012944:Social Support