Advanced Communication Skills Module

Program Overview

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Overview

A crucial element of providing quality healthcare is effective communication. On a daily basis, healthcare professionals are faced with a range of challenging situations requiring advanced communication skills.

This module will help you:

Build upon existing communication skills

Practice using skills to elicit concerns and give person-centred responses

Develop enhanced communication skills for dealing with complex and challenging situations

Enhance effective communication within your team

The module provides a unique opportunity to equip healthcare professionals with skills that can improve the quality of care provided and patient outcomes. Individual and small group practice allows students to implement taught content in real-world situations that are specific to a variety of clinical areas.

This module is subject to having a viable number of students to run.

Program Outline

What you will study

This module is provided as part of this interdisciplinary Framework within the Faculty of Health Studies. The Framework enables students to create an individualised programme of study that will meet either their needs and/or the employers’ needs for a changing diverse workforce within a modern organisation.

The modules and academic awards are presented in areas representing employment practice or work based or clinical disciplines.

Whilst some students can build their own academic awards by choosing their own menu of module options, other students will opt for a named academic award. The Framework also provides the option for students to move from their chosen named award to another award if their job or personal circumstances change and they need to alter the focus of their studies. The majority of named awards also offer students, the option of choosing at least one module, sometimes more, from across the Faculty module catalogue enabling them to shape their award more specifically to their needs.

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Career support

The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the

Careers

website.

Discussing options with specialist advisers helps to clarify plans through exploring options and refining skills of job-hunting. In most of our programmes there is direct input by Career Development Advisers into the curriculum or through specially arranged workshops.

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Career prospects

This module will support your career progression in your chosen field.

You can choose to build upon this module with further study that can lead to a full MSc award.