health care

health care

1. barriers to communication

   • mental ill health
   • disability
   • dementia
   • drugs and alchol
   • technological aids
   • human aids

2. verbal communication skills

   • clear speech
   • loud enough voice to hear
   • appropriate language
   • tone
   • pitch
   • jargon if appropriate

3. non verbal communication skills

   • eye contact
   • gestures
   • hand gestures
   • nodding

4. communication aids

   • braille
   • technological aids
   • sign language
   • makinton

5. discrimination, prejudice, sterotype

   • examples in the news
     • ageism , IVF declined to older couples and people
     • race- woman is refused treatment and medication
     • sexism- male nurse not allowed to do medical predures without female nurse present
     • culture and religion- female nurse made to take cross necklace off worn as she was a Christian. if not taken off faced being sacked

6. human rights

   • everyone is entitled to them and everyone should be treated equally wqith them
   • human- a member of the homo spaien species
   • rights- things to which you are entitled to or allowed to have , this is freedom that is quaranteed
   • they are universal so everyone is supposed to have then however bad things against people rights still happen like hunger and slavery