NRS 4600 CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

This course will empower students as effective and empathetic communicators in healthcare settings, exploring both verbal and non-verbal strategies for sharing difficult news, engaging in difficult conversations, listening actively, and being emotionally present. Students will explore the domains associated with the grieving process, including but not limited to illness and bereavement. Loss and adaptation will be examined through the perception of “normal” function across the lifespan, including congenital, acquired, and traumatic illness, disease, and disability.

Credits

2 sh

Course Types

Nursing; Clinical

Offered

• Fall

Notes

Placement ABSN Fall II. Pre-requisites NRS 2000, NRS 2100, NRS 2200, NRS 2300, NRS 2400, NRS 3100, NRS 3200, NRS 3300, NRS 3400, NRS 4000, NRS 4100, NRS 4200, NRS 4300. NRS Corequisite: NRS 4500, NRS 4600, NRS 4800. BSN Spring IV Pre-requisites NRS 2000, NRS 2100, NRS 2200. NRS 3100, NRS 3200, NRS 3300, NRS 3400, NRS 4000, NRS 4200, NRS 4400, NRS 4500. Corequisites NRS 4100, NRS 4800. Course Types: Nursing; Clinical.

1. 1. Explore their own culture, identities and biases, and the impact they may have on providing bias-free care for clients.
2. 2. Develop skill in agile communication strategies, demonstrating the resilience to stay present despite emotional challenge.
3. 3. Analyze the impact of grief and loss in all its forms on the client and family unit.
4. 4. Apply the nursing process to palliative care.
5. 5. Demonstrate preparedness for bias-free crucial conversations as health care practitioners.
6. 6. Discuss the role of religion, culture, spirituality, identity, socioeconomic and geographic factors and their impact on grief, loss, expectation and adaptation.