title: Pairing students in clinical assignments to develop collaboration and communication skills.
abstract: Skillful collaboration and communication among healthcare team members are associated with favorable patient outcomes. Student nurses need opportunities for supervised development of these crucial and intertwined skills. The author describes the implementation of a practice-change project for simultaneously developing collaboration and communication skills by pairing prelicensure student nurses in clinical assignments. This easily adapted strategy increases options for faculty looking to stimulate student acquisition of these professional skills.
authors.affiliation: Nursing, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA 18020, USA. mbartges@northampton.edu
authors.forename: Mali
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bartges
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004493:Education; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States