Critical Care Communication

In this episode I examine critical care communication and why
this is so important within clinical practice. I look at
definitions & statistics, the communication problem, the
anatomy of communication, the patient, team and individual,
leadership communication, empathetic communication, conflict
management communication and finally crisis communication. I
examine the approach to individual communication that can
optimise both sent and received communication, the main facets of
non-verbal, verbal and tonality that is needed to confer vital
information. 


I also look at a number of theories that have deconstructed the
problem of communication, these are; communication theory,
Millers Magic number 7, The communication triangle, signal
detection theory, and finally meta-cognition. I break down some
of the central concepts of the main aspects of critical care
communication that are used on a day-to-day basis, that of,
leadership, empathy, conflict and crisis. I hope you enjoy
this topic. We are going to start mixing up the content on the
podcast and feature more educational content, lecture sets as
well as more traditional interviews and conversations with
experts within their field of practice. 





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