Talk Like a Nurse: Communication Skills Workbook

by Susan Dandridge Bosher

Overview

Kaplan's Talk Like a Nurse is a hands-on workbook designed to help you strengthen the English-language skills you'll use in the real-world work environment. Ideal for ESL students in nursing and pre-nursing programs, as well as native English speakers looking to sharpen their abilities, Talk Like a Nurse provides realistic practice and practical tips for improving the communications skills you'll need in your nursing career.

Practical Review

• More than 100 interactive exercises focused on medical/nursing terminology, abbreviations, change-of shift, telephone reports, documentation skills, nursing care plans, therapeutic communication skills, interviewing skills, assertiveness skills, and more
• Language practice integrated with nursing content to help you apply communications skills to job-specific knowledge
• Clinically and culturally diverse patient scenarios, nursing diagnoses, and nurse-patient dialogues in every chapter
• Nursing report samples and practice reports to help you use medical terminology and recognize cultural perspectives

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618654502
Publisher:	Kaplan Test Prep
Publication date:	08/05/2014
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susan Bosher, PhD, is professor and director of ESL at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has taught English for Nursing to pre-nursing ESL students since 2000. The author of English for Nursing, Academic Skills and co-editor of Transforming Nursing Education: The Culturally Inclusive Environment, she has presented frequently at conferences on various topics related to ESL and nursing.