Advanced Communication Skills

Module code: NUR6015-C

Module Aims

Practice & appraise the effective application of advanced communication skills & strategies to support, maintain & enhance the emotional wellbeing of Service Users, their carers', family and friends. Enhance existing communication skills in order to effectively elicit, assess and provide tailored responses to the health related needs, worries & concerns of SU's, their carer's, family & friends. Monitor response to interaction and subsequent behaviour. To develop the skills necessary to appraise contemporary research to identify the evolution of psychosocial theories relating to communication & areas of specialist practice such as bereavement support.

Facilitate development of skills associated with critical reflection in order to appraise individual & others advanced communication skills & offer constructive feedback where appropriate. Analyse the levers, barriers, facilitators and challenges to transferring & sustaining effective communication in clinical contexts.

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