Looking for EBP articles on new grad communication

[HeartNursing3]

I am a new graduate nurse (8 months experience). One aspect where I am struggling is communication with my staff members. I have received feedback that while I typically DO the right thing, I need to work on verbalizing it as I often go into a certain mode that involves a lot of doing and not a lot of talking. I need to work on involving my coworkers more, involving my charge nurse sooner, and verbalizing more of what I have done and what needs done (especially in emergent situations) to my coworkers.

Does anyone know of a good place to look? I tried searching CINAHL but didn't have a ton of success. Hopefully someone on here knows of some good articles I can read to help improve.

Thank you!

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

Hmm - I haven't seen much "nursing" literature about interpersonal communications because that topic is not nursing-centric. Maybe it's in psych lit?

You may want to search on 'crew-resource management' I know it sounds bizarre, but this is an avenue of development that originated in the aviation industry.. now migrated to health care. It focuses on effective team communications. (Crew Resource Management Healthcare | Crew Resource Management in Medicine | Safer Healthcare - Safer Healthcare ) There is also quite a lot these days on "handoff communication" (http://www.centerfortransforminghealthcare.org/assets/4/6/CTH_HOC_Fact_Sheet.pdf ) and it's importance in patient safety.

It's great that you are receiving specific information from your preceptor rather than just generalizations that are impossible to act upon. Best of luck to you.