Critical Conversations for Patient Safety : 3rd edition - An Essential Guide for Healthcare Students - Tracy Levett-Jones

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Critical Conversations for Patient Safety

3rd edition - An Essential Guide for Healthcare Students

By: Tracy Levett-Jones

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Paperback | 14 June 2024 | Edition Number 3

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336 Pages

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24.5 x 18.9 x 2.3

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An essential guide for all healthcare students to develop and hone their skills in safe and effective communication.

Critical Conversations for Patient Safety, 3rd edition, provides comprehensive, practical advice for healthcare students to develop excellent communication skills that improve patient safety and wellbeing. It addresses communication between healthcare professionals and their patients and families, as well as interprofessional communication and collaboration. Diverse disciplinary perspectives and authentic patient stories provide different lenses for students to understand effective patient-safe communication in the evolving and complex nature of contemporary healthcare.

Critical Conversations is suitable for Nursing, Midwifery, and Healthcare students, supporting their foundational professional practice knowledge and skills for clinical placement and beyond.

Key features

Real patient stories are included in each chapter of Critical Conversations and are designed to bring the book to life and illustrate the key learning outcomes.
Integral knowledge for all nursing students that can be used across the curriculum as a key or supporting text.
Local examples and insights make this a highly relevant text for nursing students in Australia.
Celebrated author team brings an unrivalled level of local expertise.

New to this edition

New chapter on inclusive language guides students in the use of inclusive language including cultural sensitivity, gender, sexuality, disability, and First Nations peoples considerations
Increased focus on ethical principles throughout with links to the International Council of Nurses (ICN) code of ethics.
Impacts of COVID-19 on clinical practice and communication including end-of-life communication between families and patients via technology, resource allocation of equipment among staff, and impacts of COVID on staff retention
Patient stories are complemented by new audio feature to enhance students' understanding of effective and ineffective language and tone. Choose Pearson eTextbook to enjoy this new feature.

About the Author

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, interprofessional education and simulation. Tracy has authored 12 books and over 200 chapters and journal articles. She has also been the recipient of multiple teaching and research awards. Tracy is the Director of the Empathy Initiative and the Research Inspired Pedagogy, Practice and Educational Development (RIPPED) research groups.

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