Communication Skills for Cancer Nurses (5 Parts)

Synopsis: A videotape series for nurses aiming to stimulate group discussion about communication, help nurses identify specific communication skills and assist recognition of the personal barriers to using more effective skills. Patients and relatives are played by actors and the nurses play themselves, interacting without written scripts.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 25 min.
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale; 1998 sale: £175.00 (inclusive) set
Documentation: Accompanying teaching manual.
Uses: Nurses.
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: cancer patients; communication skills; nursing; oncology; trigger videos

Title: Helping the distressed relative: Elizabeth Godfrey’s story
Synopsis: 1: The story of the distressed wife of a dying patient who approaches a charge nurse to ask why the couple have not been given honest information by the oncologist. The charge nurse discusses the situation with the senior registrar.
Title: Helping the ‘difficult’ patient: Lila Adnam’s story
Synopsis: 2: The story of an Asian patient upsets a junior nurse and later accuses her of racism. The situation is discussed among the nurses and the ward sister goes to talk things over with the patient.
Title: Helping patients
Synopsis: 3: Shorter scenarios in which a) a chemotherapy sister helps a patient with advanced breast cancer to make treatment decisions and to start adjusting to her diagnosis and prognosis; b) a ward sister wants to help a teenager with recurrent disease to expre
Title: Helping relatives
Synopsis: 4: Shorter scenarios in which a) the wife of a patient with advanced disease persists in asking questions of the ward sister that cause distress to her husband; b) the distressed wife of a dying patient approaches the charge nurse to ask why the couple ha
Title: Helping colleagues
Synopsis: 5: Shorter scenarios in which a) a charge nurse helps a very junior nurse who has been upset by a patient's mother; b) a ward sister spends some time with two of the staff, following an accusation of racism from an Asian patient; c) a charge nurse discuss

Name: Cancer Research Campaign Psychosocial Oncology Group
Phone: 020 7636 8333 ext 3762
Fax: 020 7636 6151
Address: Dept of Oncology
University College London Medical School
3rd Floor, Bland Sutton Institite
48 Riding House Street
London W1P 7PL
Notes: Director: Prof Lesley Fallowfield, e-mail: l.fallowfield@ucl.ac.uk

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