Communication In Health Care

The legal account of a person's condition and response to treatment and care, chart, or clinical record

• Medical Record

• Sender

• Documentation

• Written Communication

The person who originates the communication

• Symbol

• Sender

• Reporting

• Receiver

A character used as a conventional representative of an object

• Symbol

• Reporting

• Aphasia

• Paraphrasing

Handwritten or printed words used to send messages

• Written communication

• Reporting

• Paraphrasing

• Communication

A way of communication involving hand and finger movements and facial expressions

• Sign Language

• Communication

• Courtesy

• Chief Complaint

The oral account of care and observations

• Aphasia

• Sign language

• Reporting

• Courtesy

The inability to understand spoken or written language or the inability to express spoken or written language

• Aphasia

• Paraphrasing

• Electronic Health Record

• Communication

An effective method of showing that you understand what the speaker has said

• Paraphrasing

• Progress notes

• Nonverbal communication

• Chief complaint

An electronic version of a person's medical record

• Paraphrasing

• Electronic Health record

• Courtesy

• Sender

Being polite and considerate

• Progress notes

• Courtesy

• Communication

• Medical records