ISBN13 - 978-1-934654-01-9

This purpose of this text is to facilitate communications between nurses and physicians. Leading the Way in Provider Communications details the necessary background needed to establish effective communication between the nurse and the physician irrespective of practice setting.

BASICS is the acronym chosen to symbolize the foundation of effective communication. It represents the following: Background, Assessment, Situation/symptom, Intervention, Communication and Successful Outcome. Using the principles of BASICS, this educational program offers the nurse and the physician the critical tools to establish effective communications that have the highest probability to yield successful outcomes. The program discusses six symptoms and seven systems. The first section has samples of the most common symptoms occurring in end-of-life situations using a conceptual framework for differentiating the possible cause of that symptom.