Levels of Communication
Elements of Communication
Communication and SBAR
Therapeutic Communication
Zones of Personal Spaces
100
Interactions with a small number of people
What is small group
100

Content of the communication. Verbal and nonverbal communication.

What is Message

100

"S" in SBAR stands for 

What is situation

100

Occurs at the end of a relationship

What is Termination

100

Bathing, grooming, dressing, feeding, and toileting a patient 

What is intimate distance?

200
One-to-one interaction between two people
What is interpersonal
200

When working with an interpreter, what action should the nurse take?

What is looking at the patient when talking

200

Past medical history is part of 

What is background

200
Occurs before meeting the patient
What is the preinteraction phase
200

giving directions to visitors in the hallway

What is social distancing

300
Occurs within an individual
What is intrapersonal
300

Motivates one person to communicate with another

What is Referent

300

"R" in SBAR stands for

What is recommendation

300
The nurse-patient relationship requires that the nurse establish this
What is trust
300

taking a patients' nursing history 

What is personal distance

400
Interaction within a person’s spiritual domain
What is transpersonal
400
Encodes the message
What is the Sender
400

"A" in SBAR stands for

Assessment

400
When the nurse and the patient meet and get to know each other
What is the orientation phase
400

sitting at a patients bedside

What is personal space

500

Interaction with a community

What is public

500
Decodes the message
What is the receiver
500

"B" in SBAR stands for

What is background

500
When the nurse and the patient work together to solve problems and accomplish goals
What is the working phase
500

speaking at a community forum 

What is public distance