Patient & Person: Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

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.

• Focus on interprofessional and team communication throughout

• 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