Iran Journal of Nursing

This research is a descriptive study which had been performed in order of settlement of communication between the nurses with the confinded patients in the internal cardiac wards in the hospital affiliated to Ministry of Health and Medical Educations of Tehran. This research has been done in twelve internal cardiac. wards of the hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. The research subjects are thirty graduated nurses who have been working for three or four years and at the time of research performance have been working as clinical nurses in the internal cardiac wards of the above mentioned hospitals in morning and afternoon shifts. The research has been conducted using two questionnaires of verbal and semiverbal communications in which there is even a place for determination of time and a particular hour for timing, wristle and quantity of communication in respect of establishment both verbal and semiverbal communication between the nurses and patients confinded in internal cardiac wards of the hospitals.

The findings of this research showed that the number of nurses who were involved in discussing in different matters and establish verbal and semiverbal communications are very few. From the point of view of communication settlement also the time used in this respect is very little.