CHS446 communication skills

C.  Course Description
 
This course is established to supplement to under graduate students to view herself from different angles, help her realize the importance of communication in daily relationships within the family, and with friends, co-workers, clients and people in the community. Hospital environment is included from the perspective of dietitian - client or colleague relationship, emphasizing person to person relationship.                                                                                     
     This course offers a frame work for therapeutic communication based on       knowledge drained from theoretical concepts of human communication.        Concepts that will be discussed in this course will include;  Strategies that encourage Conversation and Elaboration,  Strategies that help patient express thoughts and feelings, Strategies that insure mutual understanding, Reporting and Documenting, How to document,