4.2.4. Ineffective nurseepatient communication: examples
and reasons
(1) Little time spent on communication: Children believed
that there were too few opportunities for communication.
There were two reasons for this: one related to the
nurse and one to themselves.
①Nurse’s reasons: Being too busy and not actively
communicating are the two main nurse’s reasons
which led to few occasions of nurseepatient
communication. “Nurses have no time, and they go
away after completing the injection. So I do not talk
with them, I just saying hello sometime, and they do
not have time to stop to talk with me for a while”.
“It’s not strange that I rarely talk with the nurses,,
maybe I do not initiate conversation with them. But
if nurses could come to talk with me actively, I am
happy to chat with them”.
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②Reasons within the children: Three children
believed that their introverted nature was the main
reason that they did not communicate. They would
not initiate communication with nurses. “ I am always
introverted, and I was also like this at school. I
rarely spoke to others, so I will not talk with nurses
actively. That is my reason”.