Professional communication skills

The SBAR communication technique: teaching nursing students professional communication skills.

The Joint Commission and Institute for Healthcare Improvement have mandated healthcare organizations to improve professional communication. Nursing students lack experience in communicating with physicians. As a result, recent graduates may not be prepared to meet the demands of professional communication to ensure patient safety. The authors discuss the SBAR (situation, background, assessment,...

Improvisational exercises to improve pharmacy students' professional communication skills.

OBJECTIVE To create and implement improvisational exercises to improve first-year pharmacy students' communication skills. DESIGN Twelve 1-hour improvisational sessions were developed and added to an existing/established patient communication course to improve 3 basic skills: listening, observing and responding. Standardized patient examinations were used to evaluate student communication ski...

Effect of Reminiscence Training on Professional Communication Skills in Pediatric Nursing Staff

Introduction: The main way to improve the quality of care, especially for children, is to improve nursing communication skills. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of reminiscence training on professional relationship communication skills in pediatric nursing staff. Materials and Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental design that consisted of all babies and ...

Communication Skills

Summative assessment of medical students' communication skills and professional attitudes through observation in clinical practice.

UNLABELLED To establish medical students' professional competence for the medical profession, we designed a standardized observation procedure and the Amsterdam Attitude and Communication Scale (AACS) with nine five-point scale items, for summative assessment of their communication skills and professional attitudes. This study examines the reliability of the AACS assessment in clinical practice...