Title: Professional behavior in healthcare professions
Description: Explores patient communication. Shows how to establish therapeutic relationships; build empathy, trust, and confidentiality; and interview and assess patients. Presents effective communication skills, examines communication issues associated with specific patient groups, discusses Erikson's Stages of Life theory, considers communication with patients in pain or at the end of life, covers cultural and religious issues, and introduces the phases of the nurse-patient relationship.
Subjects: Medical personnel and patient, Nurse and patient, Communication in medicine, Interpersonal communication