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
- The need to build and sustain professional relationships as both an independent practitioner and collaboratively as a member of a team.
- Methods of effective communication.
- 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.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 6 | Outcome Work in partnership with other clinical specialisms in the investigation of solid organ transplantation and platelet transfusion and, where appropriate with service users and support staff. |