title: Helping nursing students communicate with high-risk families. An educator's challenge.
abstract: Lerner and Byrne advocate that students care for high-risk families during their maternity experience. Communication problems, client resistance, and newness of maternal care skills make this assignment a challenge for students and faculty as well.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lerner
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Byrne
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000193:education*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*