

Patient and Person, 6th Edition
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Effective communication is vital for nurses to provide quality care for patients and their families.
Patient & Person provides students with an essential framework to establish and build effective interpersonal skills in nursing practice.
Incorporating a person-centred approach, Patient & Person focuses on the importance of relating and interacting with patients as people - a concept central in providing quality nursing care and developing a therapeutic relationship in practice.
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- Focus on interprofessional and team communication throughout
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- A suite of scenario-based videos supporting key communication skills and concepts, including empathy, challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient with reflections from both the nurse and patient perspective
- A series of video interviews - exploring diverse cultural backgrounds from the patient and practitioner perspective
- More than 40 Learning Activities to help develop featured skills and concepts
- Research highlights in each chapter covering the most recent research on communication in nursing
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Part 1 - Introduction1. Why interpersonal skills?2. The patient–nurse relationship3. Nurse as therapeutic agent4. Considering culturePart 2 - The Skills5. Encouraging interaction: listening6. Building meaning: understanding7. Collecting information: exploring8. Intervening: comforting, supporting and enablingPart 3 - Skills in context9. Transitions through health and illness10. Challenging interpersonal encounters11. Building a supportive workplace