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COMMUNICATION Good communication among human being must have started, at first, as a cruel act to satisfy one’s basic needs by expressing one’s thoughts by body gesture and/or some sound notes. It develops your understanding about individuals so that the best care and support possible can be provided. As a domiciliary caregiver you’ll be an essential part of your patient’s daily routine and who relies on you to maintain his independence such as providing full range of care as well as staffs in the hospital such as doctors and nurses who often work within their own specialize language community. For caregivers to give the needs of their patients, they should not only be knowledgeable in their field of work but they should also have good interpersonal skills. But what is interpersonal skills? What will happen if we have good interpersonal interaction with our patients and how are we going to achieve good interpersonal interaction with the patients?INTERPERSONAL SKILLS Interpersonal skills is actually a type of intelligence according to Howard Gardner. It is the ability of a person to understand and interact effectively with others. It also involves effective verbal and non-verbal communication and sensitivity to the moods and temperaments of others. This is one of the most important skill that hospital staffs and domiciliary caregiver should have. This skill can provide the needs of their patients and understand them well. According to Nut Turner, “Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.” Good communication is a vital element in our daily lives and effective communication is the key to have a good interpersonal interaction with our patients so we should take time and reflect with our interpersonal communication skills. Improving this skill will help us in serving the needs of our patients and we all know that patients are different from each other. They have different needs