THE IMPACT OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN TEACHING COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR PSYCHIATRIC NURSING STUDENTS

Year 2015, Volume: 3 , 74 - 77, 01.09.2015

Azza Saad Zaghloul El-sayed Marwa Abd El-gawad Ahmed Mousa

Abstract

Effective communication has
long been recognized as a corner stone and vital component of high-quality
nursing care process starting from assessment till evaluation of care. It is
necessary for nurses to be effective communicators, so that they can deliver
safe and effective nursing practice. To be effective within a dynamic complex
psychiatric care system and to help patients achieve positive outcomes,
psychiatric nurses need to be proficient in communication skills as they are in
clinical skills. Poor communication can lead to angry feelings, omission or
distortion of important information, and subsequently deleterious effects on
patients' outcomes. Professional nursing education aims to produce quality
nursing graduates who can respond to demands of the changing healthcare
environment. Cooperative learning (CL) is one of the learning methods that have
social well as academic benefits. It lowers the students' anxiety; promote
students responsibility for their own learning, and improves interpersonal
skills and higher level thinking ability. Researches found that cooperative
learning results in higher achievement, more positive relationships among
students, and greater psychological adjustment. Application of cooperative
learning will prepare psychiatric nursing students to able to work
cooperatively with patients as well as with other psychiatric team members. This
paper provides a brief overview of the literature on the impact of cooperative
learning in teaching communication skills for psychiatric nursing students. It could be said
that CL is helpful in developing student nurses ability to practice
communication skills effectively and successfully with psychotic patients.

Keywords

Communication skills, cooperative learning, psychiatric nursing education, nursing students

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