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<div property="schema:text" class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>This section contains explanations and illustrations to help you better understand and appreciate the importance of TeamSTEPPS communication concepts and tools. If you teach this content or want additional insights into how the material can be more fully learned, you may find the <a href="/teamstepps-program/curriculum/communication/teach/index.html">instructor suggestions in section 3</a> helpful.</p>
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<p>Communication is one of the four essential skills central to safe, efficient, and patient-centered care.</p>
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<p>Communication is the essence of teamwork because teamwork requires coordination and that is achieved through communication. Communication plays key roles in team leadership, situation monitoring, and mutual support, since it is the mechanism through which all those skills are exercised. Conversely, open and effective communication depends on effective leadership, continuous situation monitoring, and a culture of mutual support that fosters information sharing.</p>
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<p>Communication involves two or more people continuously sharing information with each other throughout their interaction. This process includes asynchronous exchanges (e.g., by email or inserting comments into an electronic health record [EHR]). In such cases, the interaction includes the other person’s eventual response—not only its content but also its timing (how quickly the person responds) or even its absence (i.e., the person never responds). The information may include facts, emotions, and the communicator’s view of their relationship to the other person, or their view of themselves.</p>
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<p>Information may be shared verbally or nonverbally and intentionally or unintentionally. Even when unintended, nonverbal cues are an important form of feedback that can be beneficial or harmful. Sometimes unintended messages can have a larger impact than the intended message because they are more likely to be perceived as reflecting the person’s true feelings.</p>
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<p>Listening, making statements (through speaking, writing, or sign language), and using feedback to respond to the messages of others are equally important dimensions of communication. The more different the backgrounds or perceptions of the people involved, the more communication is liable to become challenging and the more potential there is for misunderstanding. As both the healthcare workforce and the patient population have become more diverse, communication challenges in healthcare have grown, and effective communication has become more difficult to attain.</p>
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<h3>The Transaction Model of Communication<sup><a href="#ref-1">1</a></sup></h3>
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<p>Communication is influenced by <strong>who</strong> the message source is, <strong>whom</strong> they are communicating with, and <strong>how</strong> the messages are being exchanged, as shown in the Transaction Model of Communication figure:</p>
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<li><strong>Message recipients: </strong>As shown in the Transaction Model of Communication above, all individuals in a communication interaction are playing active roles in processing information from others and responding to it. Even a message recipient who says nothing is making sense of what they are receiving and may react to it in the form of nonverbal feedback.</li>
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<li><strong>The mode of communication:</strong> In healthcare, messages are exchanged verbally; through nonverbal reactions in in-person or virtual contexts; through text shared in emails, written notes, or instant messages; and in documentation entered (or not entered) into an EHR. Each of these modalities affects how the message will be understood and reacted to by its recipients. Use of acronyms, other abbreviations, and emojis can also affect how communications are perceived.</li>
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<p>Nonverbal communication including <strong>body language</strong> also affects how individuals attend to and interpret messages. Direct eye contact can convey interest and concern. When people communicate in web meetings, sometimes they leave their camera off, or their eye contact is lacking because they are looking at the person on the screen instead of at the camera that is normally above the screen. When one person is positioned (or appears positioned) above another, the need to look down or up also can falsely suggest status differences that will then affect responses to messages. People from different cultural backgrounds also may have differing expectations regarding the appropriateness of eye contact during conversation.</p>
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<p>The voice can project interest or energy, but voices frequently sound different when people are masked or when communication is electronic instead of in person. Sometimes contexts have background noise that makes messages hard to hear, particularly for people with hearing loss or those with lower quality equipment. When nonverbal communications convey a different message from the verbal message, people are more likely to believe the nonverbal part.<sup><a href="#ref-2">2</a>,<a href="#ref-3">3</a></sup> For example, if you say you're not concerned but you are visibly shaking and appear extremely nervous, your verbal message will be discounted.</p>
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<p>To avoid assumptions that can lead to error, any important communication—either verbal or nonverbal—should be confirmed orally or in writing. The examples in the Communication Examples table provide proven methods for making initial messaging clear and ensuring that it is clearly understood. The rule is, "When in doubt, check it out, offer information, or ask a question."</p>
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<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Orally confirm with the patient the time an appointment has been scheduled, followed by a mailed, emailed, phone call, or text reminder before the appointment, based on the patient’s preference; use a patient portal that allows the patient or designated family caregivers to review upcoming appointments online.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">The nonverbal cues a primary care provider gives when looking at an electrocardiogram may indicate to the nurse the severity of the situation and the need for proactive action, without alarming the patient.</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Display content visually on a virtual call while discussing the content orally to ensure the message is reinforced. Encourage people to have their cameras on to maximize engagement and attention and allow others to observe body language that reinforces the verbal communication. Use virtual meetings to allow designated family members to participate without being physically present with the patient. Use closed captioning or language translation software to support participants who would benefit. Use text messages rather than phone calls to increase the likelihood the messages will be quickly read and acknowledged.</td>
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<p>Effective communication varies depending on the participants, subject matter, timing, and modality (in person or virtual). It also depends on the cultural context and time period; effective communication in 1970 or even 2000 was not the same as what it would be today or will be in 20 years.</p>
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<p>The information that is relevant and clear can vary considerably depending on whether the participants are nonclinical staff, patients, or clinicians. Conversations that include a mix of these groups create particular challenges to effective communication and make monitoring nonverbal communication and feedback essential.</p>
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<li><strong>Language barriers:</strong> Ensuring equitable language access for patients and staff can be challenging. Patients and staff who do not speak English or who have low levels of proficiency in it may misunderstand messages or not understand them at all and may be reluctant to acknowledge their lack of understanding. Providers may not be proficient in the language of the patient and caregiver or not have effective ways of working with a multilingual population. These factors make LEP patients higher risk for harms and near <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09638288.2022.2086637?journalCode=idre20">misses</a>. AHRQ's guidance document for <a href="/policy/lep.html">how to support LEP patients and family caregivers provides additional information</a>. </li>
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<li><strong>Distractions, stress, and fatigue:</strong> All these factors can impair willingness and ability to process verbal and nonverbal messages. They can also affect time and attention spent sharing information or eliciting the perceptions of others. </li>
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<li><strong>Personalities:</strong> Sometimes it is difficult to communicate with particular individuals. Introversion may be perceived as a lack of interest in or desire for additional information. Extroversion may lead people to talk when it is time for listening. Cultural differences may lead to inaccurate perceptions of the personalities of people from diverse cultures.</li>
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<li><strong>Varying communication styles:</strong> Different types of healthcare workers have historically been trained to use different communication styles. For example, nurses are trained to be descriptive when conveying information and physicians are trained to be succinct. These communication styles may also differ from those of patients and family caregivers. </li>
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<li><strong>Lack of verification of information: </strong>It is important to verify and acknowledge that information has been exchanged. Unclear units of measure (pounds or kilos) and acronyms or abbreviations with different meanings, as well as unfamiliar accents or dialects, can all cause confusion that leads to patient harm. </li>
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<li><strong>Shift or staff changes:</strong> Transitions in care are the times when most communication breakdowns occur.<sup><a href="#ref-5">5</a>,<a href="#ref-6">6</a></sup> </li>
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<li><a id="ref-1" name="ref-1"></a>Lapum J, St-Amant O, Hughes M, Garmaise-Yee J, eds. <a href="https://pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca/communicationnursing/chapter/transaction-model-of-communication/">Introduction to Communication in Nursing</a>. Toronto, CA: Toronto Metropolitan University Pressbooks; 2020. Accessed April 26, 2023.</li>
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<li><a id="ref-2" name="ref-2"></a>Goleman D. Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books; 1997.</li>
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<li><a id="ref-3" name="ref-3"></a>Kuhnke E. Body Language for Dummies. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons; 2012.</li>
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<li><a id="ref-4" name="ref-4"></a>Foronda C, MacWilliams B, McArthur E. Interprofessional communication in healthcare: an integrative review. Nurse Educ Pract. 2016 Jul;19:36-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2016.04.005. Accessed April 26, 2023.</li>
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<li><a id="ref-5" name="ref-5"></a>Ong MS, Coiera E. A systematic review of failures in handoff communication during intrahospital transfers. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011 Jun;37(6):274-284. DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(11)37035-3. Accessed April 26, 2023.</li>
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<li><a id="ref-6" name="ref-6"></a>Patel SJ, Landrigan CP. Communication at transitions of care. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2019 Aug;66(4):751-773. DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2019.03.004. Accessed April 26, 2023.</li>
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