Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing

Alec Grant, PhD is now an independent scholar, having retired from his position as Reader in Narrative Mental Health in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton in May 2017. He qualified as a mental health nurse in the mind-1970s and went on to study psychology, social science and psychotherapy. He is widely published in the fields of ethnography, autoethnography, narrative inquiry, clinical supervision, cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, and communication and interpersonal skills. His current and developing narrative inquiry work draws on  poststructural, new materialist and posthuman scholarship. Benny Goodman is now an independent scholar having retired from his position as lecturer in Adult Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Plymouth University. He qualified as a Registered General Nurse in the 1980′s following graduation with a BSc Sociology and Politics. He writes on topics such as sustainability, climate change and health but always within a socio-political framework. He is author and co-author of two other Learning Matters books: Collaborative Practice and Sociology and Psychology in Nursing. Current interests include the socio-political role of the nurse.

‘This is one text that I will definitely be recommending to my students. An excellent starting guide to communication and interpersonal skills, further supported by the NMC standards, which gives this text kudos and rigor.’

• Chapter 1: Understanding communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 2: Evidence-based communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 3: The safe and effective practice of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 4: Understanding potential barriers to the safe and effective practice of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 5: The learning and educational context of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 6: The environmental context of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 7: Population and diversity contexts of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 8: Beyond techniqueChapter 9: The macro structuring of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 10: The micro structuring of communication and interpersonal skillsChapter 11: The politics of communication and interpersonal skills