Communication is a fundamental clinical skill that, if performed competently and efficiently, facilitates the establishment of a relationship of trust between the medical staff and the patient-customer. Having good communication skills is also essential to collaborating on teams with colleagues from other disciplines. Join us in this pre-recorded course to learn more about the topic and to improve your communication skills.
The course will cover the following lectures:
- Basics of Communication
- Effective Communication
- Health Literacy
- Communication Between Coworkers
- Breaking Bad News
- Informed Consent
- Difficult Patients
- Communication & Discharge
- Health Communication
- Conflict Management
By the end of this course the candidate will be able to:
- Identify strategies and tools to address health literacy in health promotion work
- Define positive and negative communication
- Explain various tactics that could be used to deal with a difficult patient
- Recognize the SPIKES approach to breaking bad news
- Describe the communication process
- Identify the role of communication in effective healthcare delivery
- Describe best practices that can be used to raise the effectiveness of discharge
- Describe characteristics of effective health communication
- Describe the impact of effective coworker communication
This is a pre-recorded course; contains 13 pre-recorded videos. Each video is approximately 10-15 minutes long
- The materials will be available to watch from 20/04/2025
- Purchase of the course grants you 3 weeks access to all recorded videos.
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