Developing Professional Nursing Identity and Communication Competence

Catalog description

This course is designed to facilitate personal-professional growth and use of the self as a therapeutic tool by guiding students along the Jesuit academic path to become a professional nurse. Students are prepared to provide relationship-based care, to identify with the values of professional nursing, and to become effective members of the interprofessional health care team. Learning about the importance of self-care, compassion, and resilience, along with skills for communicating in health-care systems and negotiating conflicts, is highlighted. Small group seminars facilitated by an experienced nurse faculty allow students to share their own values, beliefs and experiences in a safe and supportive learning environment which facilitates their professional role acquisition. Small group work involves active engagement, via guided discussion, simulated interviewing, role- play, role-modeling, dramatic enactments, and repeated skills-practice. Course content is supported via assignments and classroom exploration of nursing theory and evidence associated with communication competencies and relationship-based care.