Critically examine the relationship of communication skills to health care practice. Clarify personal, cultural, and gender beliefs and values to determine how the variables influence communication issues with health care providers and with patients. Discuss the impact of culture and gender differences on communication and group functioning. Discuss importance of advocacy role in facilitating access to healthcare. Practice professional and therapeutic communication skills with individuals and groups.
Professional communication skills for nurses .
3 rd Edition. In addition to having fulfilled the prerequisites for this course students are presumed to have a working knowledge of the types of reasoning, A.P.A. format and to be able to write clearly, grammatically, and cogently. If you need help with your writing, please avail yourself of an editor or other resource as student papers will be evaluated on grammatical errors, lack of coherence, and logic. It is also assumed in this course that students will read ALL assignments, come to class and be prepared to actively participate in discussions based on readings. Because it is not always possible to cover all content in lecture hours, we assume that students will be responsible for the content in assigned readings in that testing will be based on integration of assigned material from text and other sources .