Essentials of Nursing Communication - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Joy V. Goldsmith, PhD, Elaine Wittenberg, PhD, Chiahui Chen, PhD, MS, RN, FNP-BC and Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD, MSN, RN, FPCN

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ISBN: 9780443245190

Publication Date: 02-02-2026

Page Count: 352

Imprint: Elsevier

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Help your students develop skills in communication with a scientific, competency-based approach! Essentials of Nursing Communication helps students gain communication knowledge and build observable communication skills/behaviors in nursing. This book goes beyond an anecdotal, “soft skills” approach to communication. It integrates the COMFORT model with the concepts and domains of the 2021 AACN Essentials, covering key topics like professionalism, DEI, and person-centered care. Standards and learning objectives for undergraduate nurse communication training are scaffolded across chapters, implementing the gold-standard approach to competency-based learning to help students communicate effectively in today’s nursing practice.

Key Features
- The four concepts in the 2021 AACN Essentials are integrated throughout the text, covering communication, clinical judgment, compassionate care, and diversity/equity/inclusion, along with the 10 domains
- Essentials Spotlight graphics depict the junction of the Essentials domains with communication science and related skills
- The COMFORT model — a model created, researched, and applied by the authors — focuses on nurse communication in healthcare, with this acronym standing for: Connect, Options, Making meaning, Family caregivers, Openings, Relating, and Team
- Theory at Work directly applies theory to communication dynamics and challenges in actual nursing contexts
- Communicate with COMFORT integrates the COMFORT model into chapters across the text, linking communication science to the clinical communication practices of the nurse
- Communication Matters Across the Four Spheres of Care describes the linkages between communication in nursing and the Four Spheres of Care: Wellness and Disease Prevention, Chronic Disease Care, Regenerative/Restorative Care, and Hospice/Palliative Care
- Nurse Forward heralds the voices and stories of nurses advancing the field, elevating the role of the nurse in healthcare, optimizing leadership of the nurse, and improving the nursing landscape for nurses and patients
- Self-care content includes reflections from nurses and nursing students
- Learning features reinforce chapter objectives with key terms, competencies, critical thinking engagements, boxed features/callouts, and charts/diagrams
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Contents

SECTION I Communication and Person-Centered Care
1. Defining and Understanding Communication in Nursing
2. Science Versus Anecdote
3. Relationship With the Patient
4. A Patient’s Story

SECTION II Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5. Ethical Communication
6. Cultural Humility
7. Health Literacy
8. Bearing Witness
9. Communication and a Culture of Safety

SECTION III Family and Nurse Communication
10. Communication and the Patient’s Family
11. Communicating With the Family Caregiver in Complex Disease
12. Communicating About Patient Prognosis

SECTION IV Professionalism and Collaboration
13. Communicating About Transitions in Care
14. Communication and Goal-Concordant Care
15. Working on a Team
16. Evolving Channels of Communication in Nursing
Authors

Joy V. Goldsmith, PhD, Professor, Department of Communication and Film,University of Memphis, USA, Elaine Wittenberg, PhD, Professor, Health Communications,California State University-Los Angeles, USA, Chiahui Chen, PhD, MS, RN, FNP-BC, Assistant Professor, D'Youville University, USA and Maryjo Prince-Paul, PhD, MSN, RN, FPCN, Serious Illness Consultant, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA
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