title: Strengthening communication education in an undergraduate nursing curriculum.
abstract: As effective communication is an essential professional competency that is conceptualized and developed during undergraduate education, the purpose of this study was to investigate and reinforce the role of communication in the nursing undergraduate curriculum. Analysis of faculty and student focus group discussions revealed the benefit of purposefully structuring and explicitly articulating communication education throughout the undergraduate curriculum for increased accessibility and visibility of communication education, expanded ranges of available teaching and learning methods and resources, and strengthened ability to address undermining mixed communication messages. These findings have implications for how to specifically include communication education in a learning-centered undergraduate curriculum.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: Geertje
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Boschma
authors.forename: Rochelle
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Einboden
authors.forename: Marlee
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Groening
authors.forename: Cathryn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Maura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: MacPhee
authors.forename: Helga
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: O'Flynn Magee
authors.forename: Peggy
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tognazzini
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haney
authors.forename: Hanneke
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Croxen
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D001955:British Columbia; D003142:Communication; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*