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Communication Skills for Nursing Practice
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Communication Skills for Nursing Practice
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Description
Nurses need highly developed skills in order to communicate sensitively and collaboratively, across a wide range of media, with patients, clients, and colleagues from a variety of backgrounds. This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to essential communication skills with an emphasis on practical application within modern healthcare settings.
Supporting students and practitioners in developing a patient-centred and therapeutic framework for communication, it features research from a wide range of healthcare contexts, and provides exercises and action plans to help nurses integrate psychological and healthcare communication theory into their day-to-day professional practice. Renowned for its clear, accessible and engaging guidance, this is an indispensable textbook for all undergraduate nursing students.
New to this Edition:
- A new chapter on collaborative communication
- New material on diversity
- Revised and updated throughout to provide contemporary case studies, the latest literature, original theories and models, and skills development
Table of Contents
1. Communication Theory
2. Nursing Theory
3. Effective Communication
PART II: THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS IN NURSING
4. Communication Skills
5. Barriers to Effective Communication
6. Conflict
7. Collaborative Communication
8. Communicating in Difficult Situations
PART III: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPUTIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS
9. The Role of Personal Self-awareness in Developing Therapeutic Communication Skills
10. Experiential Learning
Product details
| Published | 06 Nov 2013 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Extent | 280 |
| ISBN | 9781350310988 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Illustrations | 66 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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