Competency information

Details

Communicate effectively with the healthcare team recognising and responding appropriately to situations where it is necessary to share information to safeguard service users or the wider public.

Considerations

  • How communication skills affect assessment of, and engagement with, service users and how the means of communication should be modified to address and take account of factors such as age, capacity, learning ability and physical ability.
  • Situations where it is necessary to share information to safeguard service users or the wider public.
  • The limits of the concept of confidentiality.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 3 Outcome hypersensitivity and allergy