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Communication for Health Professionals
Reflection criteria
Your Task:
Thoroughly read and participate in the communication style assessment in the template linked below to assess your communication style. Then, reflect on the following points:
1. Communication strengths:
- What are the positive aspects of your dominant communication style?
- Which communication styles in others do you communicate with most effectively, and why?
- What are some examples of how your dominant communication style has benefited you in your communication with others? How do you think this will be beneficial when working as a health practitioner?
2. Communication challenges:
- What are some of the aspects of your dominant style that may be challenging in one-to-one and teamwork communication?
- What can you do to control or avoid these challenges?
- Which communication styles in others do you communicate with least effectively, and why?
- What can you do to develop new communication strengths as a health practitioner?
3. Importance of communication in healthcare:
- Why is an awareness of personal communication style (yours and the people you are communicating with) vitally important when working in health care?
- Consider, for example, patient safety issues, teamwork, caring for vulnerable people who are sick, in pain or dying, breaking bad news and working with patients across the lifespan and from different cultural groups).