Improvoscopy Interpersonal Communication and Episode 389

Do you struggle with interpersonal communication skills? are you dealing with an abusive coworker? Do you wish you could get the leadership in your facility to listen to you? Well check out this special episode with a project on nursing communications that you can be a groundbreaking part of. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it. It’s the Nursing Show.

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Welcome to the Show

Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. This is a special episode where the whole show is my discussion with our guest. We’ll be talking about a brand new project to improve nursing and healthcare communication to improve workplace culture and patient care.

If you want to get back in touch with me, please drop me an email. You can send those e-mails in to [email protected]. I love to hear from you and I make sure I respond back to every email that comes in. Send me links to news items you’d like me to cover, interview suggestions with you or somebody you know.

Also, I’ll be coming to San Francisco in the end of April to cover the American Nurse Informatics Association or ANIA. If your a nurse informaticist, consider attending this amazing event. Find our more at ANIA.org. That’s it. I will have more contact information coming up later on in this episode. Let’s get on in to this week’s news items coming right up!

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Tip of the Week – Using Improv to Teach Communication Skills

Nurse and communication coach Beth Boynton contacted me a few weeks ago to encourage me to check out her new Indiegogo campaign to create a new interpersonal communication educational program. The program proposal is to build a website with all the materials needed to teach a group of healthcare professionals how to use special improv exercises to improve their interpersonal communications skills. The project is called Improvoscopy: Serious Play for Safe Care</...