Students' Nursing Perception Regarding Communication Skills wtih Patients. | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 7, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 107-120 PDF (170.91 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2015.223540 | ||
| Author | ||
| Nagwa Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed | ||
| Medical Surgical Nursing Departement, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Communication is very important in profession of Nursing. Tendency to health or concerns, fear or indifference about disease may change among people and expectations and ideas of people are affected by their communications with their nurses. When nurses build efficient communication with their patients, they can contribute to positive development of patients. In short, communication based success in health area depends on nurse’ understanding of the ideas that the patient has and patients’ understanding of what the nurse explains. Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the perception of communication skills in second year nursing students. Material and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out with a sample of 45-second year nursing students &96 patient. A questionnaire was administered to them. To evaluate the perception of communication skill “Communication Skills Assessing Scale” was used. Results: The average point was 73.3±8.4. The perception level of female students and the students who participate in social activities more were high. Most of the students (63.5 %) think that communication is a skill that can be learned and 69.0 % of the students think that there may be some lessons about patient-nurse communication during their education period. Conclusion& Recommendation: The perception of communication skills of nursing students were at an intermediate level. Most of the students look on learning communication skills with favors. Addition of “communication lessons” to the curriculum is recommended to improve the communication skills of student | ||
| Keywords | ||
| communication; Student; perception; nursing | ||
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