Learn about basic human needs and the importance of communication in nursing, with this free online nursing course. This free online nursing studies course will given you an overview of the skills, techniques, and approaches that will enable you to effectively treat a diverse range of patients. It will also guide you through some of the key communication challenges that can arise with patients and families when providing care in transcultural settings. Improve your ability to navigate diverse nursing environments with our online course today.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195818 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Identify the purpose of human communication and the critical elements of therapeutic communication • Identify nursing interventions needed to communicate with patients who are blind, deaf, or speak a foreign language • Evaluate common emotional reactions to illness and hospitalization • Identify factors of transcultural nursing and sociocultural beliefs about illness • Outline how sociocultural beliefs about causes and cures impact nursing • Discuss the communication challenges that can happen with patients in transcultural settings |
| Course Code | 1457 |

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