Rachel Tregre

Ms. Jean Coco

English 2001

5 March 2017

Preface:
Out of the three body paragraphs that I have wrote about for visual communication, I the
Blood and Body Fluid Safety chart. I chose this one because I believe that it gives me pictures
and information about my source, which really helped for the mode, visual.
The revisions I made after my teacher conference, is talked about my other two sources
and went more into detail for the one that I showed during the conference. I feel that everything
is developed better and is clearer.
The revisions that I question are if I wrote the paragraphs in the right order and if I did
the rough draft portfolio correctly.
The questions I have for my paper is if if the format is correct. I believe that the format
could look a lot smoother and needs more time and work put into it.

1. It is important to have communication with patients in the nursing field. There are

various types of communication and it is important for nurses to understand the concept of all of

them, whether it be visual, oral, nonverbal, or written. Visual communication is very helpful for

patients who are deaf, or unable to read, and it is extremely important that hospitals portray

pictures for patients in order to allow them to understand what is going on. If a nurse has poor

communication with their patient, then it can result in bad outcomes for the patient. This is why

it is important that nurses communicate effectively with their patient. In this source, patients that

were on dialysis used cards that had feelings on them in order to show their emotions about

being on it. In these findings the patients were worried about money and how important

relationships were. Through these pictures, nurses could help the patients on dialysis by

understanding what they needed and what they wanted. This shows that visual communication is

helpful to patients by allowing them to express their emotions, understand background

information on diagrams (for the ear, nose, and throat), understand blood and body fluid safety,

and how to have safer sex.

Bennett, P. N., Bonner, A., Andrew, J., Nandkumar, J., & Au, C. (2013). Using images to

communicate the hidden struggles of life on dialysis. Journal Of Communication In

Healthcare, 6(1), 12-21. doi:10.1179/1753807613Y.0000000031

The audience for the visual text is the ones observing the picture. It is the patients who

come into the doctors office and examine the pictures on the wall when they are waiting for the

doctor to come in. The message the visual picture explains is showing patients the ear, nose, and

throat of our body. It wants readers to have some background information on these things in

order to have an idea of their body parts. The purpose the picture has is to allow the audience to
be able to identify the things the doctor comes in to tell them. For example, if a doctor came in

and told the patient that they had a problem with their cochlea, the patients could read about it

prior to the doctor entering the room and understand that it is the spiral cavity of the inner ear.

This could be helpful by saving time not only for patients, but for the nurse as well. The picture

connects with the audience through logical appeal.

The common pitfall associated with this mode could be miscommunication. It could be

miscommunication from the patients coming into the hospital with a problem and believing they

have the same problem as the patient does on poster. This could lead patients to believing that

something more severe is wrong with them than it is. An example would be if a patient looks at

the chart and the person on the chart has something wrong with their ear, they could believe that

they have the same problem if their ear is hurting.

Westwood, William B. (Medical Illustrations). (1991, 1999, 2000, 2002). Ear, Nose, and Throat

[digital image]. Retrieved from http://www.shopanatomical.com/v/vspfiles/photos/ACC-

1161-2.jpg
 The audience for the visual text is the people in your family. It wants the audience to

understand how to inform your family of germs and how easily they can spread from person-to-

person. The message that this text is explaining is steps in order to prevent infectious diseases,

such as HCV, HBV, or HIV. It wants people to understand how easy it is to spread these

infections from not following standard precautions, such as covering a open cut with a bandage.

This would prevent other people from coming into contact with another persons blood. The

purpose that this diagram explains is wanting people to know how important it is to following

these standard precautions and also gives examples on how to teach your children about germs in

fun ways. An example that the source gives is after a child touches something dirty, the parents

could put glitter on their hand, which would act as the germs. They could also make a trail of the

glitter which could show how germ spreads. This would allow children to see how easy germs

are spread in a fun way. The appeal that is made in this source is ethical by showing the good of

following standard precautions and the bad of not following them.

 The common pitfall of this source would be getting an infection from not following these

standard precautions. For instance, if a person forgot to wash their hands after contact with

blood, they could get an infection or transfer the infection to another individual. This is why it is

important for patients to follow these standard precautions in order to prevent these infections.

Griffin, Wendy. (2011). Standard Precautions for Your Family. PKIDs Blog.

Recieved from https://blog.pkids.org/category/standard-precautions-2/

Safer Sex
 The audience in this visual text is all types of people, either heterosexual, bisexual, or

homosexual. The message of this source is to allow all types of people to understand the concept

of safe sex. It wants to show people ways to lower the risk of infections during sex and ways in

order to prevent them. The purpose of the essay is to allow patients to know that it is okay for

them to have sex as long as they use precautions, such as wearing condoms, to prevent these

infections from happening.

The common pitfall of this source is scaring patients into believing that they will get

these infections if they do not follow these precautions. Knowing that infections could happen

from sexual contact, it is important for patients to understand this, but this does not necessarily

that everyone could get these infections. Everyone is different so the pitfall would be making all

people believe that they will get these infections if they do not follow these certain criterias.

Fenway Communication Health. (2008). Safe Sex Brochure. Recieved from

http://fenwayhealth.org/documents/publications/Fenway_safe_sex_brochure_generic_NEW.pdf