Identify communication strategies to build therapeutic relationships and extract important health information to facilitate effective communication with health professionals.
Effective communication
The development of a therapeutic relationship between a nurse and a patient relies upon effective communication. Active listening is a core component of effective communication.
Discuss what active listening is, and how this can help you build a therapeutic relationship with your patients.
SILO 3. Identify communication strategies to build therapeutic relationships and extract important health information to facilitate effective communication with health professionals.
Introduction (150 words)
Introduce your topic and question. The introduction should be clear, concise, and well-defined as the first paragraph of the essay.
Body (1200 words)
Discuss your chosen question and demonstrate your understanding of the topic. You must support your arguments with evidence from current (within last 10 years) and high-quality literature. Use at least 10 references to support your arguments.
Conclusion (150 words)
Summarise your essay to form the conclusion. A conclusion should never present any new information or topics and should simply be a summarisation of your discussion.
- This assignment is an essay, and it is expected that it will be presented in an academic essay format with an introduction, linked paragraphs and a conclusion. Do NOT use dot points. Your essay needs to be written in the third person language and needs to be referenced using APA 7th edition referencing conventions (including in-text citations and an alphabetised reference list). You should demonstrate that you have used a wide range of relevant literature from credible academic sources such as peer reviewed journals and academic nursing texts.
- You must submit an electronic word or pdf copy of your assignment via Turnitin (located on the LMS). Emailed submissions will NOT be accepted. The format of your essay must be double line spacing and Times New Roman font size 12. The APA title page must include:
o Title(eitherPerson-centredcareOREffectivecommunication) o SubjectCode
o StudentNameandnumber,campus
o Nameofyourworkshopfacilitator
o Totalwordcount(excludingreferencelist).
o Youcanaccesstheassignmenttemplatetohelpwithformatting. - Please observe the essay word limit is 1,500 words (+/- 10%) including in-text citations but excluding the reference list.