Strengthening communication education in an undergraduate nursing curriculum.
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.
Boschma
Geertje
G
University of British Columbia.
Einboden
Rochelle
R
Groening
Marlee
M
Jackson
Cathryn
C
MacPhee
Maura
M
Marshall
Helga
H
O'Flynn Magee
Kathy
K
Simpson
Peggy
P
Tognazzini
Paula
P
Haney
Catherine
C
Croxen
Hanneke
H
Roberts
Erica
E
D001955:British Columbia; D003142:Communication; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*