LibGuides: Library Resource Guides: Developing communication skills

Book titles for Communication Skills

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Essential clinical skills : enrolled nurses by Tollefson, Watson, Jelly & Tambree 5th ed.
Call Number: 610.730994 TOL 2022
Patient and Person : interpersonal skills for nursing 6th ed by Jane Stein-Parbury
Call Number: 610.696 STE 2018

More book titles for Communication Skills

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Therapeutic Communications for Health Care Professionals by Tamparo & Lindh
Call Number: 610.696 TAM 2017
Critical conversations in patient safety by Tracy Levett-Jones
Call Number: 610.696 LEV 2014
Building Professional Nursing Communication by Jill Lawrence; Cheryl Perrin; Eleanor Kiernan
Call Number: 610.696 LAW 2015
Embracing Empathy by Annemieke P. Bikker; Philip Cotton; Stewart W. Mercer
Call Number: 610.696 BIK 2015

Additional reading for Handover Skills

The following articles are excellent additional reading for Handover Skills and are a couple of Nursing Standard's most read articles.

Goldraij, G., etal. (2021). One chance to get it right: improving clinical handovers for better symptom control at the end of life. BMJ open quality, 10(3), e001436 Full text

Van de Velde, E., etal. (2021). Nursing handover involving consumers on inpatient mental healthcare units: A qualitative exploration of the consumers’ perspective. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30(6), 1713-1725 Full text

Temsah, M. H., etal. (2021). Virtual handover of patients in the pediatric intensive care unit during COVID-19 crisis. medRxiv, 14, 1571-1581. Full text

Jennings, M. (2021). Handover tips for every shift: Clear, concise communication is vital when changing shifts. Nursing Standard, 36(2), 38. Full text

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Source: NZNO library current awareness newsletter Issue 22 - 19 November 2021

E-Books for Communication Skills

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Critical conversations for patient safety : an essential guide for healthcare students by Tracy Levett-Jones

Podcast series: The Communiqués

Episode #4: Discharge from hospital and clinical handover. by Clinical Communiqué
This podcast features the important issue of clinical handover of patients to primary care. The content of the podcast is based on our December 2020 print edition of the Clinical Communiqué and includes an expert commentary by an Australian group of clinicians leading the way in improving clinical handover to primary care.

ISBAR Communication Tool

ISBAR - Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation
Link to South Australia Health for information about the ISBAR tool.

ISBAR is a tool created to aide the safe transfer of patient information in clinical handover.

Download NSW Health's ISBAR app free from ITunes app store (app for other Android platforms is not yet availalble).

NSQHS Standards - Live Literature Searches

Looking for evidence to support best practice in line with the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards?

A PubMed live search will find articles from the last 5 years with a focus on the hospital setting. Click on 'more search options' in any box for specific subsets including: broader coverage of the topic, Australian focus, or Reviews