Project Plan For Simulation Lab: Phases Of The Project

Project Plan for Simulation Lab
Name
Institution Affiliation
Project Plan for Simulation Lab
The purpose of this paper is to provide a simulation that would enlighten the language barrier issue in nursing care to senior bachelor nursing students who are completing their lecture on community health.
Background
Language is necessary for all kinds of communication. Language barriers exist when people are unable to effectively communicate because they don’t understand each other’s language. Examples of cases that relate to language barriers include people that speak different languages or they speak the same language but in different dialects (McClure, 2010). In addition physical impediments like stuttering and physical disabilities like hearing problems hinder effective communication and as such are language barriers. The use of complicated or technical terms is also seen as a hindrance to proper communication (Danna et al, 2015). The paper aims to instill the necessary skills to the students that would enable them handle language barriers in the course of carrying out their nursing duties and especially when communicating to patients. More so, these students at the end of their studies will be employed all over the world and will need to know how to effectively communicate despite different languages.
Patients with limited English proficiency are encountered on a daily basis in healthcare facilities. The inability of the healthcare givers to fully understand them has led to problems such as longer hospital stays, difficulty in understanding prescriptions and misdiagnosis (Diamond & Jacobs, 2010). Below are ways the nurse students can learn that will help them provide the best care to patients despite challenges in communication.
Phases of the project
First of all the students will be paired up to facilitate role plays on communicating with one another. The students will be able to practice on one another as the lecture progresses and in so doing fully understand what they are being taught.
Don’t Shout and speak slowly
Mostly when we try to put across a point to a person who doesn’t understand the language we speak, we often tend to shout the point across as if the person is deaf. Furthermore, we at times tend to get carried away from probable excitement when communicating and end up speaking very fast that the other person is not able to understand a thing (Dettenmeir, 2015). The nurse students will be tasked to practice sharing pieces of information in their pairs in different languages without shouting and slowly. They will repeat this until they are able to pass the information without sounding in haste and too loud.
Stop being self-conscious and make gue...