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Summary
Patient-centered communication (PCC) involves strategies promoting shared understanding and decision-making between advanced practice nurses and patients. This study explores PCC as an integrated communication strategy, suggesting its development into a mid-range theory for healthcare communication.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Communication
- Nursing Practice
- Health Services Research
Background:
- Patient-centered communication (PCC) encompasses strategies fostering mutuality and shared decision-making in healthcare.
- Evidence suggests advanced practice nurses and patients co-produce individualized clinical discourse using PCC strategies.
- Individual PCC behaviors are studied, but their impact as an integrated strategy remains unexamined.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the impact of patient-centered communication (PCC) as an integrated strategy.
- To offer suggestions for developing PCC into a mid-range theory of healthcare communication.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and conceptual analysis of PCC strategies.
- Exploration of existing evidence on nurse-patient communication behaviors.
- Theoretical development framework for PCC.
Main Results:
- PCC strategies are integral to co-producing individualized clinical discourse between nurses and patients.
- A gap exists in understanding the collective impact of integrated PCC behaviors.
- PCC has potential as a unifying mid-range theory in health communication.
Conclusions:
- Integrated PCC strategies are crucial for effective nurse-patient interactions.
- Further theoretical development is needed to establish PCC as a comprehensive mid-range theory.
- This work provides a foundation for future research on PCC in healthcare settings.