You are charged with developing a new nursing curriculum and are committed to developing a curriculum that reflects the needs of the profession and of the workplace
To address deficits that may already be present in nursing curricula related to the workplace, you include more content and skills development related to:
a. Therapeutic communication with patients.
b. Effective communication in the workplace.
c. Increased emphasis on sender-receiver dyads.
d. Generational differences in communication.
ANS: B
Nursing programs teach therapeutic communications with patients and their families. Little focus, however, is placed on effective communication in the workplace, although communication is essential to building and maintaining smoothly functioning teams.
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