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Communication
Skills in ED 1
Shum Dev
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Introduction
• What is communication skills?
• Good Medical Practice
• Ethical principles
• Handover
• Conflict resolution
Communication skills
• Communication skills are abilities you use when
giving and receiving different kinds of
information
• 5 essential communication skills
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: ideas &
information through written language
- ORAL COMMUNICATION: ideas &
information through spoken language.
- NON-VERBAL AND VISUAL
COMMUNICATION. ...
- ACTIVE LISTENING. ...
- CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION.
Effective communication
• Verbal Communication
• Non-verbal Communication
• Active Listening
• Written Communication
• Educating Patient
• Making Personal Connections
• Cultural Awareness
• Compassion and Trust
GMC Good Medical Practice
5
• Make care of patient your first concern
• Be competent and keep professional
knowledge and skills up to date
• Take prompt action if you think patient
safety is being compromised
• Establish and maintain good partnerships
with patients and colleagues
• Maintain trust in you and profession by
being open, honest and acting with
integrity
GMC: Duties of a doctor
6
• Knowledge, skills and
performance
• Safety and quality
• Communication, partnership and
teamwork
• Maintaining trust
Ethical principles
4 main ethical principles
• Beneficence
• Nonmaleficence
• Autonomy
• Justice
Ethical principles
Handover
•Situation
•Background
•Assesment
•Recommendation
Handover
SBAR Handover
Conflict resolution
• Informal or formal process that two or
more parties use to find a peaceful
solution to their dispute
• Strategies used to handle conflict:
- avoiding, defeating, compromising,
accommodating, and collaborating
Conflict resolution
Conflicts can arise:
• with patients
• with families/relatives
• with physician colleagues
• with other healthcare professionals
• with administrators
• with others
13
Conflict resolution
Sources of conflict:
• interpersonal relationships
• information
• interests
• organizational structures and roles
• values and beliefs
14
Conflict resolution
Skills required:
• effective communication such as active
listening
• problem solving
• staying calm
• focusing on how to tackle the problem
• compassion
• empathy
Conflict resolution
16
17
?
18
Summary
• Effective communication is vital
• Importance of GMC Good Medical Practice
• Understand basic ethical principles
• SBAR Handover tool as a form of
communication method
• Conflict resolution: ideas, concerns and
expectations

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Communication skills in Emergency Department

  • 1. Communication Skills in ED 1 Shum Dev Consultant in Emergency Medicine
  • 2. Introduction • What is communication skills? • Good Medical Practice • Ethical principles • Handover • Conflict resolution
  • 3. Communication skills • Communication skills are abilities you use when giving and receiving different kinds of information • 5 essential communication skills - WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: ideas & information through written language - ORAL COMMUNICATION: ideas & information through spoken language. - NON-VERBAL AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION. ... - ACTIVE LISTENING. ... - CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION.
  • 4. Effective communication • Verbal Communication • Non-verbal Communication • Active Listening • Written Communication • Educating Patient • Making Personal Connections • Cultural Awareness • Compassion and Trust
  • 5. GMC Good Medical Practice 5 • Make care of patient your first concern • Be competent and keep professional knowledge and skills up to date • Take prompt action if you think patient safety is being compromised • Establish and maintain good partnerships with patients and colleagues • Maintain trust in you and profession by being open, honest and acting with integrity
  • 6. GMC: Duties of a doctor 6 • Knowledge, skills and performance • Safety and quality • Communication, partnership and teamwork • Maintaining trust
  • 7. Ethical principles 4 main ethical principles • Beneficence • Nonmaleficence • Autonomy • Justice
  • 12. Conflict resolution • Informal or formal process that two or more parties use to find a peaceful solution to their dispute • Strategies used to handle conflict: - avoiding, defeating, compromising, accommodating, and collaborating
  • 13. Conflict resolution Conflicts can arise: • with patients • with families/relatives • with physician colleagues • with other healthcare professionals • with administrators • with others 13
  • 14. Conflict resolution Sources of conflict: • interpersonal relationships • information • interests • organizational structures and roles • values and beliefs 14
  • 15. Conflict resolution Skills required: • effective communication such as active listening • problem solving • staying calm • focusing on how to tackle the problem • compassion • empathy
  • 17. 17 ?
  • 18. 18 Summary • Effective communication is vital • Importance of GMC Good Medical Practice • Understand basic ethical principles • SBAR Handover tool as a form of communication method • Conflict resolution: ideas, concerns and expectations