4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur)

NU1S02 -Communication and Essential Skills for Nursing Practice (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

Following completion of this module the student should be able to

Unit 1 Communication

• Outline models and theories of communication underpinning ways of communicating and interacting with different patients with different social, cultural and ethnic identities; variant health care needs and vulnerabilities; people with disability and children.
  
• Identify communication techniques that enhance the development of therapeutic relationships.
  
• Describe barriers to communication in the practice setting
  
• Summarise the principles of good listening
  
• Define the principles of respect, dignity, trust and coping in nursing.
  
• Appreciate the nature and use of touch in the professional nurse/patient/client relationship
  
• Demonstrate skills of reflection and self awareness
  
• Discuss one’s own practice, using a framework for reflection, with particular emphasis on communication skills
• Review ways of establishing effective professional relationships with clients, nursing colleagues and with other professionals who are members of the health care team.
  
• Explain professional requirements in relation to communication and professional relationships

Unit 2

• Identify and apply health and safety standards in the health care setting.
  
• Demonstrate an understanding of core clinical skills relevant to their practice placements.
  
• Understand the principles of effective communication techniques when delivering clinical skills in the health care setting.

Module Learning Aims

The module aims to facilitate students to develop personal and professional communication
skills, essential clinical skills and to apply those skills specifically to the student’s discipline.
The student will be introduced to the concept of reflection and reflecting on practice in a health
care setting.

• Unit 1 Communication
  
• Unit 2 Essential Clinical Skills

Recommended Reading List

Essential Reading

Unit 1

• Arnold E.C. & Underman Boggs, K. (Eds.) (2015) Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses,7th edn. Elsevier/Saunders, St. Louis.
• McCabe C. & Timmins F. (2013) Communication Skills for Nursing Practice, 2nd edn. Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Unit 2

• Dougherty L. & Lister S.E. (eds) (2011) The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures Student Edition, 8th edn. Oxford, Blackwell. Retrieved from http://www.rmmonline.co.uk/ on 6th December 2014.
  
• Nicol, M., Bavin, C., Cronin, P. & Rawlings-Anderson, K., Cole,E. and Hunter, J. (2012) Essential Nursing Skills. 4th edn. Mosby, London.
  

Recommended Reading

Unit 1

• Burnard P. & Gill, P. (2008) Culture, Communication and Nursing: A Multicultural Guide. Pearson Education, UK.
  
• Glasper E.A. & Richardson, J. (Eds.) (2006) A Textbook of Children's and Young People’s Nursing. Churchill Livingstone, London.
  
• HSE (2012) The National Healthcare Charter. HSE National Advocacy unit, Dublin.
  
• Rolfe G, Jasper M. Freshwater D, 2010 Critical Reflection In Practice: Generating Knowledge for Care 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  
• Royal College of Nursing (2000) Sexuality and Sexual Health in Nursing Practice. Royal College of Nursing, London.

Unit 2

• Coyne I., Neill F., & Timmins F.,(2010) Clinical Skills in Children’s Nursing. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning