Health Communication: Building Professional Skills
The Clinical Communication Collaborative (CCC) is proud to announce the release of its first iOS APP for clinicians! Now you can have quick and ready access to theory-driven and evidence-based communication tools that are useful in difficult conversations. Endorsed by the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium and renowned palliative care physician Diane Meier, this APP provides easy-to-deliver responses when communicating in moments of tension, sorrow, fear, anxiety, awkwardness, and hesitancy. Health Communication guides you to provide compassionate and culturally sensitive care to serious and critically-ill patients and their families.
Features:
* Over 100 different communication strategies
* Search by scenarios
* No need for Internet access
CCC also offers free teaching materials on this Website to advance a patient-centered training program called COMFORT. Based on years of clinical research, COMFORT offers healthcare professionals extensive materials – PowerPoint presentations, knowledge assessments, example cases and standardized patient assessment forms – designed to teach communication strategies for patient-centered palliative care.
This iOS app has been designed for healthcare clinicians and students. Built from the COMFORT communication curriculum, an acronym that stands for the seven basic principles of palliative care communication, Drs. Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles (University of Kentucky), Joy Goldsmith (University of Memphis), and Sandra Ragan (University of Oklahoma) have translated health communication theory and research into the first ever
communication studies driven tool to assist clinicians with difficult conversations. Feel free to download the APP as a discussion tool for coursework in health communication, end-of-life care, communication and technology and the like – or better yet, pass it on to a clinician who may be teaching clinical communication.
CCC advances palliative care by fostering clinical communication practices for healthcare
professionals, including nurses, physicians, social workers, chaplains, students, and other members of interprofessional healthcare teams.
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