Communication skills for the healthcare professional

• Main Authors: McCorry, Laurie Kelly 1959- (Author), Mason, Jeff 1961- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Wolters Kluwer 2011
• Subjects: Communication > Problems and Exercises; Professional-Patient Relations > Problems and Exercises; Allied Health Personnel > Problems and Exercises
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• Physical Description: xii, 251 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781582558141; 1582558140

Communication Skills for the Healthcare Professional is a comprehensive yet compact guide to learning essential communication skills that will prepare students for success as healthcare professionals. Intended to supplement the clinical coursework students complete in the first one to two years of all allied health programs, the book uses a broad range of examples, role plays, and scenarios from virtually every healthcare field, enabling both instructors and students to use it as an essential resource for mastering any area-specific communication skill. Each chapter provides students with objective and short-answer questions to test comprehension of the material, as well as more complex clinical applications that encourage students to develop the critical thinking skills they will need every day as professionals in the healthcare industry