Nursing and Health Vol. 2(1), pp. 1 - 8
DOI: 10.13189/nh.2014.020101
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Use of a Therapeutic Communication Simulation Model in Pre-Licensure Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Enhancing Strengths and Transforming Challenges

Marjorie Hammer ^*, Sylvia Fox , Michelle DeCoux Hampton
School of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University, 3100 Summit Street, 3rd Floor, Oakland

ABSTRACT

Nurse educators are challenged to prepare students to graduate with a high level of communication skill to effectively work with patients, families and professional colleagues. This manuscript describes an innovative pedagogical model developed for teaching therapeutic communication skills to pre-licensure nursing students through the use of simulation. This novel, theoretically based teaching and learning strategy is a replicable model that includes student and faculty preparation; pre- and post-assignments; tools for active engagement of students as role players or observers who utilize therapeutic communication techniques and critical thinking about therapeutic communication theory; tools for self and peer evaluation; and opportunities for inter-professional communication skill development. The model also serves as an alternative milieu to the clinical site. A brief literature review provides a theoretical and socio-economic framework.

KEYWORDS
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Therapeutic Communication, Simulation, Role Play, Clinical Skill Development

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Marjorie Hammer , Sylvia Fox , Michelle DeCoux Hampton , "Use of a Therapeutic Communication Simulation Model in Pre-Licensure Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Enhancing Strengths and Transforming Challenges," Nursing and Health, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1 - 8, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/nh.2014.020101.

(b). APA Format:
Marjorie Hammer , Sylvia Fox , Michelle DeCoux Hampton (2014). Use of a Therapeutic Communication Simulation Model in Pre-Licensure Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Enhancing Strengths and Transforming Challenges. Nursing and Health, 2(1), 1 - 8. DOI: 10.13189/nh.2014.020101.