Experiential communication formats are used, including interactive communication scenarios, video critiquing and participative self-awareness exercises.
Therapeutic communication will be introduced through:
- Understanding and demonstrating the phases of the nurse-client relationship
- Demonstrating of advanced empathy, therapeutic confrontation and immediacy
- Demonstrating the principles and steps of problem solving and conflict resolution
- Understanding and demonstration of assertive and responsible communication
- Demonstration of understanding of theory and concepts through simulated clinical examples
- Understanding of cultural competence and the issues of professional documentation and sharing of client information for the client as individual and family
Students will have the opportunity to develop and practice the therapeutic communication skills of advanced empathy, therapeutic confrontation and immediacy. Student learning will focus on effective communication with distressed and aggressive clients experiencing episodic health challenges. Students will continue to develop cultural competencies as it relates to therapeutic communication and the client as individual and family.
The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course
This is a graded course.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students:
A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.