Course Title:	NR310 - Communications in Nursing
Department:	Health Sciences
Instructor:	Dr. Deryl Gulliford - E-Mail | Personal E-Mail |  Vita
E-mail	dgullifo@canyoncollege.edu
Personal E-mail	deryl@pldi.net
Phone (office BlackBerry®/cell):	(405) 219-6715
Phone (cell):	(405) 219-6227
Phone (home):	(405) 285-1974
Pager:	(877) 724-3711, PIN 5539
Address:	118 Gardenwood Dr, Holdenville, OK 74848-9528

Course Description:

This course presents a variety of concrete methods to interact more effectively with clients, families and professional colleagues, using a synthesis of proven communication strategies and principles. Course concepts come from nursing, psychology, sociology and other disciplines.

Text: Online Bookstore

Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses – 3rd Edition. Arnold, Boggs and Wood. Published February, 1999. W.B. Saunders Company. ISBN #: 0721681034

Course Format:

This course is divided into five units, covering text chapters as follows:

Unit 1 – Chapters 1-3
Unit 2 – Chapters 4-8
Unit 3 – Chapters 9-16
Unit 4 – Chapters 17-21
Unit 5 – Chapters 22-23

Communication with Instructor:

Students are expected to communicate with the professor weekly during the course term. A brief e-mail update is sufficient, although the professor will be please to discuss any matter by phone during the work day or during the evening hours at home.

Evaluation:

There is a written essay examination for each Unit, and a Scholarly Paper (approximately 10 pages in length) is required for completion of the course. The Scholarly Paper topic and outline must be approved prior to writing. There is no final examination for this course.

Grade Weighting:

Each Unit Exam is worth 15% of the course grade, and the Scholarly Paper is worth 25% of the course grade.

Course Topics:

Students should expect to study the following topics in the process of completing this course:

• Conceptual Foundations of Relationships
• Theory as a Guide to Practice
• Guides to Action
• Self-Concept in Professional Relationships
• Structuring the Relationship
• Bridges and Barriers
• Role Relationship Patterns
• Values and Ethics in the Nurse-Client Relationship
• The Grief Experience
• Communication Styles
• Therapeutic Communication Skills
• Intercultural Communication
• Communicating in Groups
• Communicating with Families
• Resolving Conflict between Nurse and Client
• Health Promotion
• Health Teaching
• Addressing Special Needs
• Communication Deficits
• Communicating with Children
• Communicating with Older Adults
• Communicating in Stressful Situations
• Communicating with Clients in Crisis
• Professional Issues
• Communications with Professional Colleagues
• Computer Aspects

About the Professor:

Dr. Gulliford is CEO of Stevens County Hospital in Hugoton, Kansas. He has fifteen years of experience in senior healthcare management. His clinical background includes work in respiratory care, critical care medicine, non-invasive and invasive cardiology, and cardiovascular perfusion. Dr. Gulliford is Vice-President of Pioneer Health Network, a group of 18 Kansas and Oklahoma hospitals, and Vice-President of the Kansas Hospital Association Southwest District. He was recently elected to Chair the newly formed Small and Rural Hospitals Division of the American Academy of Medical Administrators.

Dr. Gulliford’s philosophy:

………therefore however you want people to treat you, so treat them.

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