{"id":12332,"date":"2020-07-06T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.each.eu\/?page_id=12332"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:04:23","slug":"sig-healthcare-communication-in-nursing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/each.international\/da\/organisation\/sigs\/sig-healthcare-communication-in-nursing\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Communication in Nursing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Effective communication skills are central to nurses\u2019 relational practice and patient-centred care and as such are important components of nurses\u2019 education. Nursing is a knowledge-based relational discipline that requires nurses to be highly skilled, creative and adaptive communicators within the context of their own og<\/em> inter-professional practice. There is therefore a critical need to explicate, develop and grow the communication knowledge base that will optimally support nurses\u2019 roles in diverse practice settings and patient contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, over the past few decades, concern has grown that nurses may not be offered systematic teaching in this subject area with the same dedicated approach that is applied to other professions e.g. medicine. Additionally, while there are multiple overlapping commonalities that can be identified for teaching and practicing communication within an inter-professional context, extrapolating knowledge, models and strategies that inform medical education ignores the particular context of nursing that is bound by varying practice professional scopes and roles. To compound the problem there is, in general, a lack of high quality research concerning how communication skills are taught and assessed and their patient-impact evaluated, within the field of nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of this Special Interest Group is to encourage global exchange and collaboration among nurse educators\/researchers, concerning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n