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Advanced nurse practitioners, and nurses aspiring to this role, are required to understand how to communicate effectively and on a collaborative basis with patients and carers during consultations, with the aim of enhancing patient outcomes such as improved patient satisfaction, ability to self-manage healthcare needs and adherence to care plans. This article explores collaborative communication in consultations and how best to achieve this, using the author’s doctoral observational research based on the findings of a mixed methods observational study of communication in advanced clinical practice patient consultations.
Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2018.e11094
CitationBarratt J (2018) Collaborative communication: learning from advanced clinical practice patient consultations. Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2018.e11094
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Correspondence Conflict of interestNone declared
Published online: 27 March 2018
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