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Course Number and Title: NR310 – Communications in Nursing
School of Learning: Nursing
Instructor: Dr. Deryl Gulliford
Contact: deryl@pldi.net
Credits: 4 Semester Credits
Prerequisites: None
Required Text Online Bookstore
Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses – 3rd Edition,
by Arnold, Boggs and Wood. Published February, 1999. W.B. Saunders Company.
ISBN: 0721681034
Course Description
This course presents a variety of concrete methods for positive interaction 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. This course is aimed at helping nurses and nurse leaders to become more effective in their diverse roles, including their essential communications with physicians and patients.
Course Objectives
After completing the course, students will have developed the knowledge, skills, and abilities to:
- Understand and discuss the importance of self-concept in professional relationships.
- Discuss common bridges and barriers in nursing communications.
- Define and discuss role relationship patterns as they relate to nursing communications.
- Understand and discuss key values and ethics in the nurse-client relationship.
- Present key concepts related to the grief experience.
- Define and discuss therapeutic communication skills.
- Understand key concepts of intercultural communication.
- Understand key concepts of communicating in groups and communicating with families.
- Discuss resolving conflict between nurse and client.
- Understand communication in health promotion and health teaching.
- Discuss nursing communication when communication deficits exist.
- Discuss nursing communication with children and older adults.
- Understand key concepts of communicating with clients in crisis and in stressful situations.
- Understand the unique nature of communication with professional colleagues, including physicians and 0ther caregivers.
- Understand computer aspects of nursing communication.
Course Outline
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 17-23
Grading
Each Unit Exam is worth 15% of the course grade, and the Scholarly Paper is worth 25% of the course grade.
A 90 - 100%
B 80 - 89%
C 70 - 79%
D 60 - 69%
F 0 - 59%
Additional Information
Communication with Instructor
Students are expected to communicate with the professor weekly during the course term. A brief email 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.
About the Professor
Dr. Gulliford is CEO of the Northwest Oklahoma Healthcare Consortium, based in Enid, OK. He has twenty 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 State Director for the American Academy of Medical Administrators in Oklahoma. His peers in hospital administration voted him William Newcomer Healthcare Executive of the Year for the United States in 2005.
Dr. Gulliford’s philosophy:
………..therefore however you want people to treat you, so treat them.
Version #2 – 18 Feb 2010