Communication and Your Job

Using the following resources as the required reading material, write a discussion post containing not less than 300 words.

Communication is a critical skill for every profession–including nursing. For your discussion, write a post describing the kind of written and oral communication that you do at work as a Pharmacy Technician. How much of your typical work day is occupied with speaking and writing? What kinds of documents do you compose? Recall a time when you experienced a problem at work as a result of poor communication. What were the causes of and possible remedies for the problem? How do you think studying technical writing would help you in your current work as a Pharmacy Technician and future work as a Registered Nurse?

Instructions

Your discussion should:

be carefully structured with a beginning, a middle, and an end
should employ complete, grammatical sentences that form coherent and cohesive paragraphs.
must address all the question(s) asked and be on topic
must reflect that you have done the required reading. *****To show that you’ve done the required reading, you are required to summarize, quote, or paraphrase at least a few key ideas from the reading in your response. Make sure you cite your sources (APA format) using in-text citations and include a reference at the bottom of your post.

Preview of the answer…

On the written communication, I am in charge of writing the dosage of the medication. This includes writing down the frequency in which the medication should be taken, the quantity in which the patient should consume the medicine; for syrups, the exact milliliters that should be taken and for tablets the exact number. Over and above that, for some particular medications, I indicate what type of fluids to take them with. For the oral communication, I ask the patient personal details like their age, names as well as the gender for purposes of ensuring they are in the right age bracket for the medication. I also ask the patient some important details regarding their medical history to make sure that the medication…

APA 388 words