Communication Facilators Between ICU Team with and Family’s Members in an Intensive Care Unit 2018
Communication Facilators Between ICU Team with and Family’s Members in an Intensive Care Unit 2018

Summary/Abstract: Background: Introduction: Establishing an effective communication with patients is an essential aspect of nursing care. However, most of studies described the nurse-patient relationship as weak. Recognition of barriers in nurse-patient’s effective communication from their point of view could facilitate the actions need to be taken for removing such barriers. The study aimed at assessing barriers of nurse-patient’s effective communication from nurses and patients’ viewpoints and to compare them.Method: This study was qualitative study. Participants were 8 Iranian registered nurses working in educational hospital and 10 family members and 4 physician in Kerman, Iran. Non –structured interviews were used for data collection. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and simultaneously Constant comparative analysis was used according to the Strauss and Corbin method.Results: Through data analysis, 3 main themes emerged to describe the factors that hindered or facilitated Communication process. As for factors that facilitated nurses to communicate with family member, it was found that the values and moral of nurse patient relationship, recognizing patients' needs, nurses' responsibility, nurses’ commitment, in Communication process between ICU team with and family’s members.Conclusions: The study revealed there is some facilators factor in communication between nurse’s and patient's family. Thus health manager should put their attempts on supporting and auxiliary the most important facilators announced by nurses and patients, especially on factors which both groups reported.

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