title: My non-verbal communication skills made a big difference.
abstract: Towards the end of the second year of my child nursing degree, I worked on a general paediatric ward. One day a teenage girl was admitt ed with high blood glucose levels.
authors.affiliation: Middlesex University.
authors.forename: Rukshana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Islam
mesh_terms: D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D006113:United Kingdom