Navigating Difficult Interactions in Healthcare

Equip your nurses and healthcare professionals with the skills to handle sensitive conversations, practice empathy under pressure, and navigate difficult behaviours from patients and their families. Mapped to the AACN 2021 Essentials, this learner pathway helps you deliver on those competencies without rewriting your curriculum or adding to your workload.

About the pathway

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Aligned with the AACN 2021 Essentials

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AI-powered personalised feedback

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Compatible with VR, PC, mobile and web

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Contains: AI roleplay, bite-sized activities, quiz and questionnaire

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Approx. 55 minutes

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English

AACN 2021 Essentials mapping

The journey

Navigating Difficult Interactions in Healthcare

In this pathway, learners will explore techniques for navigating sensitive discussions with patients and families, including those with cognitive impairments, alongside methods for maintaining therapeutic connection when facing resistance, anger, or distress.

Upon completion, they will demonstrate empathy and emotional regulation skills, harness tools for defusing anger and practise maintaining therapeutic relationships with patients and colleagues.

Questionnaire
Activity - Identifying Anger Signals
Activity - Learn How to Defuse Anger with Empathy
Activity - Using Values to Navigate Potentially Difficult Situations
Quiz
Activity - Verbal De-escalation of a Vulnerable Resident
AI roleplay - De-escalation

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