Description
- 16-year-old white pregnant teenager living in an inner-city neighborhood.
- 35-year-old transgender white male living in a homeless shelter.
Submission instruccions
- What are the barriers to interpersonal communication?
- What are the procedures and examination techniques that will be used during the physical exam of your patient?
- Describe the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Planning (S.O.A.P.) approach for documenting patient data and explain what they are.
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Running head: HEALTH ASSESSMENT DISCUSSION WEEK 1
Health Assessment Discussion Week 1
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16-year-old white pregnant teenager living in an inner-city neighborhood
Barriers to interpersonal communication
The first barrier to interpersonal communication is the shyness of the patient being that
she is young, aged 16 years, and may not be willing to communicate clearly and issue details
about the sickness and other data associated with the same (Kim & White, 2018). Since in
assessment there must be communication, without proper management of the shyness problem,
the issue may be adverse, and the situation grows complicated following the challenges
associated with the shyness and inability to communicate the issues that are supposed to be in
place.
The language barrier is another barrier to interpersonal communication since the
articulation and mastery of American English may be a problem (Kim & White, 2018).
Additionally, the level of education may be an impediment to the right communication making
the process to generally be bad and lack of clarity from the problem.
Another barrier to interpersonal communication is the noise and poor setting for the
assessment (Kim & White, 2018). In every assessment, there is always the need to choose a good
place and work on mechanisms and techniques for effective and useful communication
techniques. Ignorance and reduced approaches to the management of the problems and issues at
hand may reduce the level of confidence and effective communication expected in the general
experience (Kim & White, 2018). The city setting is full of distraction, and the patient is most
likely unable to tell all the information about sickness and other challenges associated with the
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