Business communication is very important. Businesses use, verbal, written, and electronics to communicate with one another. I would say that we definitely use communication at my job. The most common form of communication that I use at work would have to be written. I am a nursing assistant and we chart by hand a lot of information throughout the day about the patients and residents that we take care of. Every day, we communicate to our nurses how are residents do daily activities and any changes in behaviors. We also communicate when we document things like vital signs such as temperature, blood pressure and things of that sort.

Written communications helps a big part in my work place. With written communication, you automatically have documentation of what occurs throughout the day. We do however use other forms of communication like verbal. On days where there are emergencies, are only way to get in contact with individuals that we work with is to page them using our phone system so they are aware of where they might be needed in the facility.

At my previous jobs, I believe that business communication was used a lot more than at my current job. I used to be a cashier at Wal-Mart. Communication was made through out your whole shift some kind of way. For example, being that I was a cashier, every time I scanned a piece of merchandise, it would communicate to cooperate to order more of the same product that was scanned through the register. Another example of communication at Wal-Mart is that we could communicate with supervisors through our registers but pressing in certain codes so we would not have to track them down during busy store