Evaluating the Strategies Used in Health and Social Care Environments to Overcome Barriers to Effective Communication and Interpersonal Interactions.
Evaluating the strategies used in health and social care environments to overcome barriers to effective communication and interpersonal interactions.
Sensory Impairment:
Sensory impairment could be a barrier to effective communication they can prevent service users and health care professionals from communicating correctly, this is because they interfere with a service user’s ability to send, receive and understand a message. According to Collins Education sensory impairment is the key issue why service users with sensory impairments are more exposed to ineffective care and their needs are not always met. This would make the service users have a low self-esteem because they will be left confused and unaware about their health.
To overcome this negative barrier the service user will need to be provided with technological aids that work properly in order for them to discuss and receive information about their health from the health care professional. The health care professionals should also be alert the service user additional communication needs for those service user with sensory impairments so that they can be given aids that can help them communicate.
Health care professionals could use the strategy of assessment of need in order to overcome the barrier of sensory impairment because by assessing a service users’ needs health care professionals will be able to provide the service user with loop systems. According to Pearson’s Loop systems will be able to help a service user with hearing aids because they help them listen to sounds more clearly because it reduces background noises that may prevent effective communication.
Environment:
Environment could be a barrier to effective communication because it for example if a service user and a health care professional are in a noisy uncomfortable environment it would be difficult for them to understand each other, according to Collins Education this interaction will not be effective because it reduces people’s
Sensory Impairment:
Sensory impairment could be a barrier to effective communication they can prevent service users and health care professionals from communicating correctly, this is because they interfere with a service user’s ability to send, receive and understand a message. According to Collins Education sensory impairment is the key issue why service users with sensory impairments are more exposed to ineffective care and their needs are not always met. This would make the service users have a low self-esteem because they will be left confused and unaware about their health.
To overcome this negative barrier the service user will need to be provided with technological aids that work properly in order for them to discuss and receive information about their health from the health care professional. The health care professionals should also be alert the service user additional communication needs for those service user with sensory impairments so that they can be given aids that can help them communicate.
Health care professionals could use the strategy of assessment of need in order to overcome the barrier of sensory impairment because by assessing a service users’ needs health care professionals will be able to provide the service user with loop systems. According to Pearson’s Loop systems will be able to help a service user with hearing aids because they help them listen to sounds more clearly because it reduces background noises that may prevent effective communication.
Environment:
Environment could be a barrier to effective communication because it for example if a service user and a health care professional are in a noisy uncomfortable environment it would be difficult for them to understand each other, according to Collins Education this interaction will not be effective because it reduces people’s