Author(s)

Kátia Nêyla de Freitas Macêdo-Costa, Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca, Antonia Ferreira Alves Sampaio, Paulo César de Almeida, Cristiana Brasil de Almeida Rebouças

Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Brazil.
Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.

It was aimed at validating the applicability of the Model of Verbal Communication with blind people in nursing appointment in the stages of the nursing process. A methodology of quantitative study was used with 30 nurses and 30 blind people who participated in the study, divided in control and experimental groups. 30 nursing appointments took place; they were recorded and analyzed by three judges. The experimental group had excellent performance in following protocol (95.6%); taking notes informing the reason for silence (93.4%); and avoiding long silence (100%). In interventions, it presented excellence in all the items, in the evaluation stage, there were no bad/terrible actions. In none of the actions the control group presented better performance than the experimental one. The use of the Model is recommended in nursing appointment with blind patient.

Communication, Nursing, Visually Impaired Patients, Disabled Patients, Humanization of Assistance

Macêdo-Costa, K. , Pagliuca, L. , Sampaio, A. , de Almeida, P. and de Almeida Rebouças, C. (2014) Model of Verbal Communication with Blind Patient: Application in Nursing Appointment. Health, 6, 1919-1928. doi: 10.4236/health.2014.615224.