Discuss the Principles of Practice for Assisting in Pre-Hospital and Emergency Care

In all walks of life we converse with various people throughout our lives. I will discuss effective communication with different age groups, and people with different abilities and needs. Communciation patterns for children vary greatly from one child to another, dependent on experiences and education. Children will tend to communicate more if they have big families where they can interact with brother’s or sisters whereas children with small families may tend to be less socially interactive and more reclusive. When communicating with people with different abilities and needs we need to communicate on a even level and value their decisions as it is easy to become judgemental. I will discuss attitudes to care with regards to equality and diversity. We live in a society of mulit-cultural and diverse communities and must respect the religious, spiritual beliefs and we must not discriminate against age or race. I am also going to discuss respect and diginity in pre-hopsital and emergency care. We must treat every patient with dignity and respect as healthcare professionals, regardless of race or sex, age or disability. The values and opinions should be taken into account.

Communication is derived from the latin word “Communis” meaning to share. The earliest forms of communication were simple cave paintings, petro-glyphs and pictograms followed by the earliest known forms of writing. There are many way’s in which to communicate, society has different ways of interpreting communication whether it be through a countries own language, different slangs and accents. My interpretation of communication is transmitting your views, opinions, information, ideas or feelings from one person to another. Whether that be through verbal communication such, as words, Electronic mail or speeches.