Communication: Core Interpersonal Skills for Healthcare Professionals 5ed
Communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals, regardless of their specific discipline.
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Communication: Core Interpersonal Skills for Healthcare Professionals 5ed
Communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals, regardless of their specific discipline. The fifth edition of Communication: Core Interpersonal Skills for Healthcare Professionals provides a comprehensive introduction that will be invaluable for students undertaking any training program in health.
The book guides students toward an understanding of all the basic communication techniques and skills they will need in practice. They will learn to develop self-awareness about the impact their words and actions might have on others, use a person-centred model to reconstruct their communication style and approach, and then apply their new knowledge and skills to real-life scenarios.
Easy to read and logically ordered over four sections, this book will guide students towards developing lifelong communication skills that will ultimately enable optimal person-centred care, successful therapeutic relationships and positive patient outcomes.
Key features:
- A focus on person-centred care and culturally responsive communication
- Assists students to reflect on their personal communication style and habits, then learn and practise strategies and skills to enhance future communication in practice
- Builds confidence in communication through activities, scenarios and case studies
- Explores communication with Indigenous peoples to improve healthcare outcomes
- Includes digital communication – overviews and tips on navigating professional and personal electronic media
- Scenarios, case studies, individual and group activities, role-plays and end-of-chapter questions support learning
- Straightforward language makes learning accessible for students in all health disciplines
- Student and instructor resources, including a quiz, semester planner and a tutorial guide contribute to engaging students
| Book | |
|---|---|
| Author | O'Toole, Gjyn |
| Year | 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780729544696 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Language | English |
| Uncategorized | |
| Edition | 5/e |
| Weight | 970 g |
| Dimensions | x x cm |
| Binding | Paperback |