Clinical performance expectations: using the "you-attitude" communication approach.
Clinical rotations can be very stressful for nursing students, particularly novice students. Clinical course objectives are normally written from the viewpoint of the faculty, using a specialized professional language that is unfamiliar to the new nursing student. The author discusses use of a communication approach, the You-Attitude, that considers and reflects the viewpoint of the reader and may be able to reduce student anxiety and help them better achieve course objectives.
Bowie
Bonnie H
BH
College of Nursing, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122-1090, USA. bowieb@seattleu.edu
D001007:Anxiety; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D013338:Students, Nursing