Communication in Nursing

By Julia Balzer Riley, Julia W. Balzer-Riley, Balzer-Riley, Julia Balzer-Riley, Julia, et al.

Book Overview

Combining a spiritual, empathetic approach to patients with practical clinical scenarios and techniques, this user-friendly resource is your key to understanding and applying the basic concepts of therapeutic communication. It provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidelines for establishing patient relationships, accompanied by unique artistic features that go beyond the clinical setting and help you connect more effectively with patients and ensure better clinical outcomes.Wit & Wisdom boxes provide a humorous, personal approach to communication theory and application.Discussion of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helps you recognize different styles of communication and enhance your own.Moments of Connection boxes highlight the outcomes and benefits of successful communication.Poetry excerpts in every chapter provide inspiration and insight.Focus on therapeutic spirituality presents a holistic approach that helps enrich your patient relationships.Guidelines on communicating with populations with special needs prepare you to engage the widest variety of patients.Revised chapter exercises reinforce concepts and help you practice your communication skills.New Communicating at the End of Life chapter provides strategies for effective communication and creative expression with patients near the end of life.Revised Understanding Each Other: Communication and Culture chapter helps you better understand diverse patient backgrounds and foster more productive relationships.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323046762
• ISBN13: 9780323046763
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Used in Nursing 100

Good book, a little wordy and "touchy feely". Used, but not a great deal. Good reference book for Psych, however.

Communication in Nursing 4th ed by Riley

This book has four parts each containing five to ten chapters. Part I: Getting Started includes responsible, assertive, caring communications; helping relationship; mutual problem solving; culture; and electronic communications. Part II: Building Relationships has chapters about warmth, respect, genuineness, empathy, self-disclosure, specificity, asking questions, expressing opinions, humor, and spirituality. Part III: Meeting Challenges deals with confrontation, refusing unreasonable requests, communicating assertively and responsibly with distressed and/or aggressive clients and colleagues and with unpopular clients, and team conflict. Part IV: Building Confidence covers requesting support, evaluation anxiety, feedback, relaxation, imagery, positive self-talk, and commitment. The author explains how to read the book by noting the questions at the end of the chapter, chapter objectives, and bold print. Then think about the answers to questions as the book is read. In the acknowledgments the author identifies content in each part and how it will help the reader. Connecting the content with reasons for learning it helps motivate the learner. Each chapter starts with whimsical animals and inspiring figures art, quotations, and the chapter objectives. Important content is highlighted in tables and boxes. Important points are often bulleted or numbered. Color is used. Multicultural proverbs, wit and wisdom sections, poetry, and moments of connection that share the meaning of nursing through story telling are dispersed throughout the book. Nursing examples are used. Spirituality, humor, and think about it exercises have been added since the last edition. Exercises encourage active learning. References and suggestions are at the end of each chapter, and appendix and index are at the end of the book. This book facilitates multiple intelligences and applies learning theory. Use of this book is an excellent way to teach communication in nursing.