Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
NRSE 3520 - Oral Communication in the Healthcare Professions
Introduction to speaking and listening concepts impacting future practice in healthcare. Principles of public speaking as well as active and passive verbal communication amongst a healthcare team with an emphasis on communication around social determinants of health through development of healthcare dialect.
Credit Hours: 1
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Speaking and Listening
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to demonstrate active and passive verbal communication skills that are appropriate for health care professionals.
- Students will be able to use unbiased vocabulary, terminology, and sentence structure appropriate to the social determinants of health and healthcare professionals.
- Students will be able to use posture, gestures, eye contact, and voice to enhance the effectiveness of a presentation and a patient/resident interaction.
- Students will be able to listen to conversations and provide credible, relevant, and convincing information that establishes credibility.
- Students will be able to articulate a precise, compelling, and memorable purpose or main point of a presentation.
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