Communicating with Your Patients: S...

Communicating with Your Patients: Skills for Building Rapport Christine A. Hinz 2000 80 pp $39 paperback

Although this main division is written primarily for physicians, other health care providers and observers will benefit from studying the material. The thesis can easily be read in single sitting, and it offers readers virtuous tips for improving communication skills. Topics include breaking bad recently made knowns to patients and their family members, family involvement in patient care, and the up and downs of working with difficult patients. This work offers wonderful advice on to what extent to talk with older adult patients, patients who are substance abusers, and patients who are mentally ill. Cultural barriers and misunderstandings are discussed at length

As health care providers, we can sharpen our communication skills simply by dint of slowing down our busy pace and hearing what our patients are telling us. We must learn to listen. This work does a great job in assisting with that endeavor.

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PATRICIA A. NUNEMAKER

RN

RN CLINICAL III SURGERY PRECEPTOR

ST JOSEPH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

PLYMOUTH IND

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