St George's, University of London
- Start Date: 20 Feb, 2023
- 2 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Improve your clinical relationships with patients and colleagues as you gain the key communication skills to use in healthcare.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Understand the importance of communication in healthcare settings
Effective communication is crucial when delivering safe, quality care. Healthcare professionals who aim to develop their communication skills place themselves in a more beneficial position to improve both their working patient relationship and team dynamic.
On this two-week course, you’ll develop essential communication skills to become an effective communicator and hold compassionate conversations.
Learning from real patient and healthcare professional’s experiences, you’ll discover how effective clinical communication skills can reduce complaints, improve the patient experience, and boost your confidence and wellbeing.
Gain essential communication skills
Self awareness is key in helping you become an effective communicator. You’ll reflect on your emotional intelligence, acknowledging your unconscious bias, to understand how to grow your self awareness.
You’ll also develop your listening skills, including active and empathetic listening, to ensure you understand the other person’s experience.
Develop your verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Communication comes in many forms, both verbal and non-verbal. To help you become a well-rounded communicator, this course will help you develop both.
You’ll gain verbal communication skills to ensure you speak honestly and clearly before exploring the functions of non-verbal communication such as body language and eye contact.
Learn to overcome the barriers to communication in healthcare
Finally, you’ll learn how to address the barriers you may face in communication in healthcare. You’ll learn how to use the skills gained on this course to overcome these barriers and deliver safer, person-centred care.
Guided by healthcare experts, you’ll finish with the clinical communication skills to apply to your healthcare context.
This course is designed for healthcare professionals who want to develop their clinical communication skills to improve their working clinical relationships with others.
It will be suitable for pre-registration students, students studying healthcare courses, and qualified staff who have an interest in improving their clinical communication skills.
The course is based on practices within the UK but is also applicable to health professionals globally.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
St George's, University of London
St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.
The university provides a world-class multi-professional health sciences education that equips graduates to meet today’s healthcare needs through relevant scientific research, clinical excellence, strong interpersonal skills and team-based working. Sharing a clinical environment with a major London teaching hospital, its innovative approach to education results in well-rounded, highly skilled clinicians, scientists, and health and social care professionals.
St George’s has more than 250 years of excellence and innovation in research and education resulting in groundbreaking advances in medicine and healthcare. Alumni include Edward Jenner, John Hunter, Muriel Powell and Patrick Steptoe. The university has three research institutes focus on biomedical and scientific discovery, advancing the prevention and treatment of disease in the fields of population health, heart disease and infection - three of the greatest challenges to global health in the 21st century.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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