Effective communication is vital for nurses to provide quality care for patients and their families.

Patient & Person provides students with an essential framework to establish and build effective interpersonal skills in nursing practice.

Incorporating a person-centred approach, Patient & Person focuses on the importance of relating and interacting with patients as people - a concept central in providing quality nursing care and developing a therapeutic relationship in practice.
Key Features
Focus on interprofessional and team communication throughout

New to this Edition
A suite of scenario-based videos supporting key communication skills and concepts, including empathy, challenging behaviours, advocating for a patient and admitting a patient with reflections from both the nurse and patient perspective
A series of video interviews - exploring diverse cultural backgrounds from the patient and practitioner perspective
More than 40 Learning Activities to help develop featured skills and concepts
Research highlights in each chapter covering the most recent research on communication in nursing



Author Information
By Jane Stein-Parbury, RN, BSN, MEd(Pittsburgh), FRCNA, PhD(Adelaide), Associate Professor and Director of Research, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney (Kuring-gai campus), NSW, Australia