Communication and collaboration for clinical partnerships

This unit builds upon the unit ‘fostering therapeutic interactions in mental health nursing’ and focuses on advanced communication and approaches for collaborative practice with stakeholders. Stakeholders include service users, carers and families, and interdisciplinary teams across settings.

You will develop skills to collaboratively plan and evaluate care, with consideration to psychosocial interventions to support service users in their recovery. You will further focus on approaches to reduce the use of coercive practices and keeping service users safe from additional harm in genuinely therapeutic environments in their homes, local community settings, or in specialised mental health settings. This unit will also support you in exploring the importance of leadership in working in clinical partnerships.