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    • Patient & Person

      Interpersonal Skills in Nursing
      • 8th Edition
      • Jane Stein-Parbury
      • English
      Guide to becoming a compassionate, effective nurse Patient & Person: Interpersonal Skills in Nursing 8e teaches nursing students the skills they need to interact with patients as people – an essential component of building an effective therapeutic relationship and providing quality care.This invaluable eBook is designed to equip nurses to manage complex, highly emotional and often challenging interactions with patients and other clinicians. It takes a patient-centred approach, based on the premise that patients’ unique experiences are significant to the care they receive.Readers will learn the interpersonal skills they need for high-quality, safe care, with a focus on listening, understanding, exploring and supporting in situations nurses might encounter in a clinical setting.

    • Stories in Health Communication

      • 1st Edition
      • Gjyn O'Toole
      • English
      Video scenarios of effective and ineffective communicationEffecti... communication is a prerequisite for safe and high-quality health care. Stories in Health Communication consists of a series of videos and accompanying text designed to support readers to develop their communication skills to pass their assessments and to communicate more effectively in practice.The Stories book includes 12 short videos demonstrating effective and ineffective interactions between health practitioners and individuals. Students are encouraged to first watch each video, then complete the related activities to develop their own understanding and competence.This book will help students critique different communication interactions, reflect on their own habits, consider new skills for communicating more effectively to different people in different settings, and then apply what they learn to practice.

    • Communicative English for Nurses , 3rd Edition

      • 3rd Edition
      • Shama Lohumi + 1 more
      • English
      Communicative English for Nurses provides a perfect solution to the needs of nursing undergraduates.Based on the INC syllabus, it is an indispensable resource for B.Sc. Nursing students. Students of M.Sc.Nursing and those going for NCLEX, TOEFL and IELTS will also find it tremendously useful.The book has been written keeping in mind the requirements of the modern Indian nurses to conversewell in English. As they serve in different national and international locations, English is their only windowto the outside world. This book provides comprehensive study material and practice exercises on Englishlanguage the way it is used in day-to-day conversations in the hospital environment.

    • Communication Skills for Physiotherapists

      • 1st Edition
      • Vincent Kortleve
      • English
      Essential guide to effective communication for better physiotherapy outcomes This book will help physiotherapists at every stage of their career to develop effective therapeutic communication skills and thereby enhance patient care. Author Vincent Kortleve takes an evidence-based approach that will help practitioners incorporate effective communication skills and strategies into every consultation—from taking a medical history through to therapy and evaluation. Learn how to excel in the four roles of communicative practice—the confidant, the coach, the detective, and the teacher—how to master shared decision-making; motivational interviewing; therapeutic pain education and health education; and how to cope when communication is difficult or breaks down.

    • Patient & Person

      • 7th Edition
      • Jane Stein-Parbury
      • English
      Patient and Person: Interpersonal Skills in Nursing offers guidance on the skills needed to interact with patients as people – an essential component of building an effective therapeutic relationship and providing quality care. Author Jane Stein-Parbury explains key concepts in simple language, without assuming any prior knowledge. The book includes empathy, dealing with challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient. Nurses will learn to build trusting relationships and support patients in their health journey. The seventh edition of this highly regarded text has been fully updated to incorporate the most current literature relating to interpersonal skills in nursing.

    • Comunicación en Enfermería

      • 9th Edition
      • Julia Balzer Riley
      • Spanish
      Este texto ofrece estrategias de aprendizaje para preparar a enfermeras en el desarrollo de capacidades de comunicación esenciales, de manera que intervengan de un modo pleno en el equipo de atención sanitaria. Cada capítulo incluye diversos tipos de estrategias de aprendizaje, y algunos de ellos ofrecen la oportunidad de desarrollar las competencias sobre calidad y seguridad integradas hoy en día en todos los estándares de enfermería. Incorpora ejercicios de expresión creativa adicionales, para desarrollar la inteligencia emocional necesaria para contar con el autoconocimiento, el autocontrol y el automanejo necesarios para ser un miembro efi caz del equipo. A lo largo del texto, se perfila el concepto de mindfulness con el fin de que esté plenamente presente para pacientes y profesionales de la salud. La comunicación interprofesional se destaca especialmente como un elemento fundamental del trabajo conjunto para la prestación de una asistencia segura y humanitaria.

    • Essential Communication Skills for Nursing and Midwifery

      • 2nd Edition
      • Philippa Sully + 1 more
      • English
      Effective communication skills are crucial in all aspects of nursing and midwifery practice - this book will enable readers to communicate effectively and with confidence in their professional practice. It focuses on the communication skills needed for the development of effective professional and therapeutic relationships. It is a 'how to do it' book that relates the theory of effective and ethical communication to the practice of nursing and midwifery and provides a framework for developing communication skills to meet a variety of situations.

    • Interpersonal Communication in Nursing

      • 2nd Edition
      • Roger Ellis + 2 more
      • English
      Good communication is fundamental to effective nursing, and the teaching of interpersonal skills is now an established part of all nursing courses, at both pre-and post-registration level. The book meets the student's needs, and is specifically tailored to nurses. It interweaves theoretical concepts of communication into the analysis of everyday nursing situations. This approach makes the book more interesting to read and has the added benefit of encouraging reflective practice.After reading and studying this book, students and qualified staff should be better able to make sense of face-to-face communication and know how their interactions can be improved.

    • Interpersonal Communication and Psychology

      • 1st Edition
      • Dev Rungapadiachy
      • English
      The foundations of helping or caring rests on the carer's understanding of human behaviour and their skills in facilitating effective interpersonal communication. Whilst psychology can be taught without the mere mention of interpersonal communication, the same cannot be said for interpersonal skills training. Effective interpersonal communication is grounded in psychological principles. The book is structured in three sections: intrapersonal dynamics - the ongoing psychological processes within oneself; interpersonal dynamics - the behaviour one exhibits; and interpersonal skills - the prerequisites to communication with others.

    • Counselling Skills for Nurses

      • 4th Edition
      • Verena Tschudin
      • English
      Effective counselling is a cornerstone of all nursing care. This new edition moves beyond the identification of a problem in order to examine fully the practical nature of counselling concentrating in particular on the potentially highly senstive nature of caring. Topics covered include support systems, the bearing of ethical issues on nurisng practice and the special skills required to give appropriate advice in the case of bereavement.The book's theoretical underpinning is once again the authors's own 'Four Questions Model', which has been expanded for this edition: What is happening? What is the meaning of it? What is your goal? and How are you going to do it?All in all, the book comprises a practical guide for student and practising nurses in all disciplines.

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Nursing communication and counselling skills