scholarly journals Implementing Team-Based Learning to Strengthen Communication Skills among Undergraduate Kinesiology Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Patrick Siedlecki
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Physical Therapist ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Team Based Learning ◽  
Interactive Classroom

Kinesiology is the study of human movement and grounded in learning about physiological and psychological mechanisms of physical activity, exercise, and sport. Despite the educational focus promoting an active lifestyle, teaching strategies often ignore the hands-on and interactive components of the field, in favour of a traditional passive teaching style (Bulger, Housner, & Lee, 2008). This teaching approach can be problematic as most undergraduate Kinesiology students will either pursue an academic career path, or enter a health care field (e.g., kinesiologist, medical doctor, physical therapist, etc.) Whichever path a student chooses, it will require strong communication skills, whether it be sharing research ideas or working with a patient. To improve these skills, instructors can use an interactive classroom. A recent study evaluating communication competence in undergraduate nursing students found overall improvements in communication efficacy and communication ability when implementing team-based learning (TBL; Cho & Kweon, 2017). Therefore, a larger focus in Kinesiology should be on promoting effective communication skills so that students are more prepared when they graduate. By incorporating TBL into Kinesiology courses, students can become more interactive in the classroom and build upon fundamental skills that are paramount in academic and health care settings (Meeuswen, King, & Pederson, 2005).

scholarly journals A Virtual Counseling Application Using Artificial Intelligence for Communication Skills Training in Nursing Education: Development Study (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefaly Shorey ◽  
Emily Ang ◽  
John Yap ◽  
Esperanza Debby Ng ◽  
Siew Tiang Lau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Communication Skills Training ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Virtual Counseling

BACKGROUND The ability of nursing undergraduates to communicate effectively with health care providers, patients, and their family members is crucial to their nursing professions as these can affect patient outcomes. However, the traditional use of didactic lectures for communication skills training is ineffective, and the use of standardized patients is not time- or cost-effective. Given the abilities of virtual patients (VPs) to simulate interactive and authentic clinical scenarios in secured environments with unlimited training attempts, a virtual counseling application is an ideal platform for nursing students to hone their communication skills before their clinical postings. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop and test the use of VPs to better prepare nursing undergraduates for communicating with real-life patients, their family members, and other health care professionals during their clinical postings. METHODS The stages of the creation of VPs included preparation, design, and development, followed by a testing phase before the official implementation. An initial voice chatbot was trained using a natural language processing engine, Google Cloud’s Dialogflow, and was later visualized into a three-dimensional (3D) avatar form using Unity 3D. RESULTS The VPs included four case scenarios that were congruent with the nursing undergraduates’ semesters’ learning objectives: (1) assessing the pain experienced by a pregnant woman, (2) taking the history of a depressed patient, (3) escalating a bleeding episode of a postoperative patient to a physician, and (4) showing empathy to a stressed-out fellow final-year nursing student. Challenges arose in terms of content development, technological limitations, and expectations management, which can be resolved by contingency planning, open communication, constant program updates, refinement, and training. CONCLUSIONS The creation of VPs to assist in nursing students’ communication skills training may provide authentic learning environments that enhance students’ perceived self-efficacy and confidence in effective communication skills. However, given the infancy stage of this project, further refinement and constant enhancements are needed to train the VPs to simulate real-life conversations before the official implementation.

scholarly journals The development of communication skills and the teacher’s performance in the nursing student’s perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (spe) ◽  
pp. 32-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karime Rodrigues Emilio de Oliveira ◽  
Eliana Mara Braga
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Teacher’S Role ◽  
Teacher's Role ◽  
Teaching Learning

Objective To understand experiences in the development of communication skills and the teacher’s role in this teaching-learning process under the perspective of undergraduate nursing students by considering two types of curriculum organization. Method Descriptive study with a qualitative approach conducted in two public schools located in São Paulo state, Brazil. Data were collected by means of self-completed forms from 81 students in the second and fourth years of the undergraduate program. Results were analyzed in light of Content Analysis. Results Results showed that the development of such skills is related to: students’ individual characteristics, patients’ characteristics, those of the health-disease process, the health-care team’s profile and the theoretical knowledge acquired on communication in health-care provision and nursing. The teacher’s role was perceived as one that supports and encourages interactions with patients and health-care teams by teaching and providing orientation about interpersonal communication. Conclusions Students identify and value the importance of their teachers’ performance in the development and acquisition of communication skills. Additionally, students who experience active teaching-learning methodologies acknowledge the teacher as essential to provide opportunities for students to express their knowledge and thoughts.

Undergraduate Nursing Student Mental Health Clinical Experiences in Saudi Arabia: Findings From a Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 107839032110001
Author(s):  
Sami Abdulrahman Alhamidi ◽  
Seham Mansour Alyousef
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Therapeutic Communication ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing

BACKGROUND: Clinical experience is an important way of resolving preregistration challenges. Negative feelings toward pursuing a career in mental health nursing may be modified by well-structured practicums. AIM: To explore nursing student perspectives of clinical practicums in mental health in Saudi Arabia for the purpose of enhancement of nurse education in mental health care. METHOD: This qualitative study used thematic analysis from semistructured focus group interviews of 20 female undergraduate nursing students. Inductive outcomes and emergent conceptual data were reviewed by investigators, doctoral prepared faculty peers, and members of the sample. NVivo 10.1 software was used to suggest conceptual groupings into themes based on inductive codes. RESULTS: The core theme—enhancement of mental health care skills—comprised four emerging subthemes, including the application of theory for clinical improvement, positive feelings, and motivation toward removal of discrimination and stigmatization, experience with apprehension, anxiety, fear, and stress, and therapeutic communication skills. DISCUSSION: Clinical placement in mental health-related practice may assist undergraduate nursing students in addressing anxiety and stress related to contacting patients, confronting stigmatizing and negative emotions, applying theoretical knowledge to clinical practice, having therapeutic communication skills, and enhancing overall professional experiences of nursing students. It is hoped that undergraduate clinical mental health placement will contribute valuable skills and viewpoints to nursing students who aim to enter professional practice in all areas and especially mental health.

scholarly journals A Virtual Counseling Application Using Artificial Intelligence for Communication Skills Training in Nursing Education: Development Study

10.2196/14658 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. e14658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shefaly Shorey ◽  
Emily Ang ◽  
John Yap ◽  
Esperanza Debby Ng ◽  
Siew Tiang Lau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Communication Skills Training ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Virtual Counseling

Background The ability of nursing undergraduates to communicate effectively with health care providers, patients, and their family members is crucial to their nursing professions as these can affect patient outcomes. However, the traditional use of didactic lectures for communication skills training is ineffective, and the use of standardized patients is not time- or cost-effective. Given the abilities of virtual patients (VPs) to simulate interactive and authentic clinical scenarios in secured environments with unlimited training attempts, a virtual counseling application is an ideal platform for nursing students to hone their communication skills before their clinical postings. Objective The aim of this study was to develop and test the use of VPs to better prepare nursing undergraduates for communicating with real-life patients, their family members, and other health care professionals during their clinical postings. Methods The stages of the creation of VPs included preparation, design, and development, followed by a testing phase before the official implementation. An initial voice chatbot was trained using a natural language processing engine, Google Cloud’s Dialogflow, and was later visualized into a three-dimensional (3D) avatar form using Unity 3D. Results The VPs included four case scenarios that were congruent with the nursing undergraduates’ semesters’ learning objectives: (1) assessing the pain experienced by a pregnant woman, (2) taking the history of a depressed patient, (3) escalating a bleeding episode of a postoperative patient to a physician, and (4) showing empathy to a stressed-out fellow final-year nursing student. Challenges arose in terms of content development, technological limitations, and expectations management, which can be resolved by contingency planning, open communication, constant program updates, refinement, and training. Conclusions The creation of VPs to assist in nursing students’ communication skills training may provide authentic learning environments that enhance students’ perceived self-efficacy and confidence in effective communication skills. However, given the infancy stage of this project, further refinement and constant enhancements are needed to train the VPs to simulate real-life conversations before the official implementation.

Improving Communication Skills in Health Care

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Lynda Katz Wilner ◽  
Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
International Medical Graduate ◽  
Medical Graduate ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Medical Interpreters ◽  
Accent Modification

Hospital reimbursements are linked to patient satisfaction surveys, which are directly related to interpersonal communication between provider and patient. In today’s health care environment, interactions are challenged by diversity — Limited English proficient (LEP) patients, medical interpreters, International Medical Graduate (IMG) physicians, nurses, and support staff. Accent modification training for health care professionals can improve patient satisfaction and reduce adverse events. Surveys were conducted with medical interpreters and trainers of medical interpreting programs to determine the existence and support for communication skills training, particularly accent modification, for interpreters and non-native English speaking medical professionals. Results of preliminary surveys suggest the need for these comprehensive services. 60.8% believed a heavy accent, poor diction, or a different dialect contributed to medical errors or miscommunication by a moderate to significant degree. Communication programs should also include cultural competency training to optimize patient care outcomes. Examples of strategies for training are included.

scholarly journals Nursing Students on the Frontline: Impact and Personal and Professional Gains of Joining the Health Care Workforce during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandra Martin-Delgado ◽  
Blanca Goni-Fuste ◽  
Cristina Alfonso-Arias ◽  
MªAngeles de Juan ◽  
Laia Wennberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Care Workforce

scholarly journals Starting an Older Adult Lecture for First Semester Nursing Students With a Truth or Myth Game

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 14-14
Author(s):  
Lynn Brown ◽  
Pao-feng Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
New Information

Abstract False ideas about the physical and psychosocial characteristics of older adults exist in America. It is especially important that nurses are not susceptible to myths and stereotypes as these myths can affect the quality of patient care. For example, some people stereotype older adults as forgetful, disabled, ill, and unable to understand new information. Misconceptions and negative stereotypes are also present in first year nursing students. It is vital that students assess their own attitudes about older adults to form positive attitudes and gain knowledge about aging and health care needs. To achieve this goal, the older adult lecture in a first semester theory and fundamental course begins with a PowerPoint slide presentation asking students to distinguish truths and myths. The truth or myth topics include a) developmental tasks; b) common physiological changes; c) a comparison of delirium, dementia, and depression; and d) addressing health concerns of older adults. Active discussion follows the activity. Seventy to ninety percent of students correctly answered nine of ten questions related to older adult content on the final exam. Considering the increasing number of older adults in the health care setting, nurse educators must dismantle negative stereotypes with creative teaching strategies.

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