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Communication Skills: A Guide to Practice for Nurses and Midwives

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A guide to workplace communication skills: from building rapport to dealing with difficult people, and leveraging non-verbal communication and body language.

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<p>Contents 10 Communication Skills for Nurses to Master Communicating with Patients Communicating with a Patient's Family &amp; Friends Communicating with Older Patients Communicating with Children Communicating with Dying Patients Communicating with Doctors Dealing with Difficult People Communication at Handover For a nurse, the ability to communicate is a very important skill and a vital part of the job. Nurses speak to people of varying educational, cultural and social backgrounds and must do so in an effective, caring and professional manner - especially when communicating with patients and their family. This article will address several aspects of communication to help you </p>

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Geoffrey Ahern
Senior Mental Health Clinician
Geoffrey Ahern is a senior mental health clinician with the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the North West Mental Health Team, and director of the Informed Mind Consultancy education service. Geoffrey has experience in emergency, trauma and psychiatric nursing, as well as rural nursing and alcohol and drug counselling. Geoffrey has a passion for education, from individual mentoring to tertiary lecturing, and is interested in the intersections between mental health and nutrition.
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Very well structured and easy to read.
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13 May 2021
I found this resource very engaging and informative. I will definitely use some of the points of this education to better my patient care.
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This activity is directly relevant to my scope as a registered nurse, and is an area of my practice where I wanted to gain more confidence This reading covered the topic of aged care. It provided me with new knowledge and reinforced existing knowledge, and will be directly transferable to my work.
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