Conference Proceedings - School of Nursing & Midwifery - Trinity ...

School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
several factors need to change within the healthcare delivery team
relationship. Therefore, several important points come to attention
from this study.
First, open communication is an essential component to
creating a culture of safety. Second, there should be a focus on
developing relationships between healthcare professionals in
particular between nurses and physicians given that this pair is one
of the most prevalent/dominant pairs regarding communication in
healthcare. Third, we have to find a way to establish and sustain of
a trust from the very beginning of the interactive communicative
relationship between healthcare professionals. The fourth idea is
that within the perioperative care delivery process, healthcare
professionals need to continue to work on a standardized
vocabulary for communication. And, fifth, to develop this new
paradigm the healthcare professionals could continue to evolve the
nurse-physician relationship as an interface for collaborative care
delivery.
Limitations and Assumptions
In healthcare, professionals are seeking to be reflective cojoint
meaning makers. Within the framework of this study there is
an exploration of communication as an evolutionary experience.
And, this study is not without limitations and assumptions.
Limitations. Participation is restricted to the
participants/professionals of a specific operating room setting in a
southwest regional medical center. Therefore, only a particular
sample of professionals are a part the conversations. And, because
of the limited and specific participants there is no control group for
testing as this is a qualitative study of what people are experiencing
in this particular contextually defined setting and as unique
individuals. Another limitation is that I have been an RN
professional in healthcare for 19 years within the OR envrionment
and this causes me to have potential bias and possible infleunce on
the study design, findings and interpretation of the findings.
Assumptions. Humans create dialogue as a social construction
and within this framework there are multiple influences that
intertwine and mesh which then develop how as individuals they
communicate as a system of communicators. The system of
healthcare communicators has varying professionals who have
diverse backgrounds from the aspects of educational, professional
and cultural perspectives, which help to develop and create
influence about who they are and how they communicate within
dialogue.
Although, I do bring a certain bias to this research as a nurse
of many years in acute healthcare and the OR setting, this is a part
of my life experiences. These experiences were used to explore
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