Description
Interpersonal Skills and Healthcare Practice
Course Outcomes:
HS290-4: Execute administrative skills and management processes within the interdisciplinary health care field.
GEL-3.01: Use experimental inquiry to inform problem solving.
Before you begin your Assignment, watch a brief introduction video. Be sure to adjust your audio settings.
Part 1: Analyze the interpersonal skills used in a healthcare situation.
Dramatize a professional, interpersonal experience to illustrate four points regarding interpersonal skills. An actual or hypothetical situation may be used as an example. Any actual situation should be presented as a hypothetical one, with any names and other identifying information changed to protect anonymity. Identify (a) if the situation is with a patient or a colleague, (b) the various interpersonal skills used, (c) how the skills used either positively or negatively contributed to the situation, (d) how the skills might have been improved and/or anticipated results of the improvement, to contribute to both the art and science of healthcare practice.
Part 2: Create an experiment to solve an interpersonal skill problem.
Write a testable hypothesis, identify an appropriate experimental control group, and create an experimental design to solve a problem. Identify one specific interpersonal skill problem related to health care (examples: language barriers between clinicians and patients, cultural differences). Suppose you wanted to design a scientific study to investigate this problem. Identify the following components of the study: hypothesis, control group, and experimental design. Discuss the obstacles that might exist to using a scientific approach in this kind of investigation.
If you need additional help with designing your experiment, view the file “Research Process Overview” found in Course Documents.
