Two Areas Related to the Topic
Language barriers can play a vital role in hampering effective nursing practices and can decrease understanding between nurse and patient. It is really important within the nursing practice to minimise the language barrier as a nurse has to deal with patients of different cultures, tribes, and different countries in order to provide the proper nursing care facilities (Patriksson, Nilsson, and Wigert, 2019). Thus, two areas selected are There may be various language barriers while communicating with clients but the two specific areas to which an individual has to focus in order to improve its own practices are Physical barriers and Social barriers.
Reasons for Undertaking Research
In the profession of nursing there should be proper understanding between caregiver and patient and any sort of miscommunication or misunderstanding can bring negative consequences. Nurses have to deal with a number of patients of different types with different situations in which language plays an important role (Giovannoni and Xiong, 2019). So, undertaking this research will help an individual to develop an understanding of different types of language barriers in the profession and also will help in developing strategies for minimising these language barriers. This will also satisfy another reason for taking the research which is to improve individual nursing practice.
Research Hypothesis and Question
Clients with certain language barriers are not able to explain their health problems as those who have a certain good command of the English language.
Research Question: Does minimising communication barriers help improve communication with diverse people?
Research Objectives
Specific: To increase cultural awareness among the staff in order to avoid language barriers in the nursing profession (Martinez, G. and et.al., 2018). In order to minimise the language barriers it is really important for the staff members to develop an understanding of the different cultural backgrounds of different clients which require care or nursing. Thus, it is a specific objective to generate cultural awareness among the staff which can help in minimising the language