It isn't, the title is: How important are communication skills in modern nursing?
(2000 words essay)
The reason I called the tutor was, because I felt the paragraphs were quite long and I wanted to know if I could sub paragraph them without having to state every little bit in the Intro, but keeping that broader.
The way I attacked it was by first defining verbal communication , going into what can affect it and the impact of it, I did the same with non-verbal communication, using leMay differentiation as a model and again clarifying what and how it can be affected.
But leMay categorizes them into 9 differernt components.And my tutor felt that this may mean the quality of analyses, etc...will suffer (this was a very long paragraph (whereas I kept the verbal one shorter).
My next paragraph went into a study that examined different ways nurses communicated and also outlining the effects parent-centred communication has compared to a task-centred aproach to communication( which means lack of communication). (This is again a very long paragraph at this time.)
My final paragraph (of the body of teh essay) went into examining the importance of communication on a professional/multi-professional level.
My conclusion then was, that good communication skills are very important to modern nursing, due to the impact on patient care and quality of care, etc....
Other then those long paragraphs, I really felt that I had gotten it right, despite looking at such a variety of issues.
My tutor said, that it all sounds to descriptive, but I did give lots of examples, and "miniconclusions" to pretty much every issue, sigh...
In a way I am tempted to keep the basics as they are, but just rewriting it all, to section it up more, to create smaller paragraphs...because I really find it all so important, sigh....