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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.730699
EAN: 9780323046763
Edition: 6
ISBN: 0323046762
Label: Mosby
Manufacturer: Mosby
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: September 12, 2007
Publisher: Mosby
Studio: Mosby



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Product Description:
Combining a spiritual, empathetic approach to patients with practical clinical scenarios and techniques, this user-friendly resource is your key to understanding and applying the basic concepts of therapeutic communication. It provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidelines for establishing patient relationships, accompanied by unique artistic features that go beyond the clinical setting and help you connect more effectively with patients and ensure better clinical outcomes.

  • Wit & Wisdom boxes provide a humorous, personal approach to communication theory and application.
  • Discussion of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helps you recognize different styles of communication and enhance your own.
  • Moments of Connection boxes highlight the outcomes and benefits of successful communication.
  • Poetry excerpts in every chapter provide inspiration and insight.
  • Focus on therapeutic spirituality presents a holistic approach that helps enrich your patient relationships.
  • Guidelines on communicating with populations with special needs prepare you to engage the widest variety of patients.


  • Revised chapter exercises reinforce concepts and help you practice your communication skills.
  • New Communicating at the End of Life chapter provides strategies for effective communication and creative expression with patients near the end of life.
  • Revised Understanding Each Other: Communication and Culture chapter helps you better understand diverse patient backgrounds and foster more productive relationships.




Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Rating for 5th edition
This book has some interesting points but I thought it was cheesy how the author interjected her own poems. Maybe that was skipped in the 6th edition I'm not sure. The book was over priced for what it was, even used. If you have to get this book I would probably get the 5th edition because now they are dirt cheap.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Used in Nursing 100
Good book, a little wordy and "touchy feely". Used, but not a great deal. Good reference book for Psych, however.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Communication in Nursing 4th ed by Riley
This book has four parts each containing five to ten chapters. Part I: Getting Started includes responsible, assertive, caring communications; helping relationship; mutual problem solving; culture; and electronic communications. Part II: Building Relationships has chapters about warmth, respect, genuineness, empathy, self-disclosure, specificity, asking questions, expressing opinions, humor, and spirituality. Part III: Meeting Challenges deals with confrontation, refusing unreasonable requests, communicating ... Read More






 






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