Assignment : Professional communication case study essay
Word limit: 1000 words
Assignment overview
The Professional communication case study essay requires you to choose one of the three patient scenarios and respond to the following prompt:
Discuss how nurses use professional communication skills to develop a therapeutic relationship with patients.
Based on your readings and on the particular characteristics of the patient below discuss how the nurse would use:
• verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• person-centred care, and
• effective documentation to develop a therapeutic relationship with the patient.
Answering this question in an essay format has three objectives:
• To assist you to develop academic reading and writing skills.
• Help you integrate knowledge about effective communication for developing therapeutic relationships using verbal and non-verbal communication skills, the principles of person centred care, and effective documentation (as discussed in the set readings for this unit of study).
• Demonstrate how these principles are applied in the care of the patient.
This assignment supports unit learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3.
Assignment details
Students will submit this assignment via Turnitin as an academic essay (1000 words) based on the set readings and reliable additional sources.
You are required to choose one of the three patient scenarios (Raymond Nguyen, Eileen Murphy or Bruce O'Grady) to answer the essay prompt.
You will use examples from the scenarios to discuss how the nurse would use verbal and non-verbal communication skills, person-centred care, and effective documentation to develop a therapeutic relationship with the patient.
You have been provided with three (3) set readings (verbal and non-verbal communication skills, patient-centred care and documentation) found under the Additional resources section below, which have been taken from set weekly chapter readings in the essential texts for this unit.
These extracts and additional sources must be referenced using correct APA style both in-text in the essay and on the reference list.
In addition to the three (3) set readings (see extracts below) that you paraphrase, summarise and reference in your essay, you must also paraphrase, summarise and reference two (2) relevant, reliable and current academic sources in your essay.
One (1) of the additional sources must be a nursing journal article, and one (1)must be from a reputable nursing website source or report (e.g. the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) codes and guidelines).