THE SURVEY OF THE COMMUNICATION SKILLS AMONG ZAHEDAN MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY NURSING STUDENTS
Ali Reza Salar, Sadegh Zare*, Fereshteh Ghaljaei and Nasrin Rezaee
ABSTRACT
nowadays, medical sciences education has experienced a shift from solely theoretical training to the acquisition of the human and communication skills and this is among the variables and qualifications judged in the determination of the competencies and abilities of the health and treatment workers. Therefore, the present study has been conducted with the objective of the survey of the communication skills among Zahedan medical sciences university nursing students. Implementation method: the present study is a descriptive-analytical research which has been conducted on 40 individuals from Zahedan medical sciences university term-8 nursing students all of whom have been busy schooling in 2016. To gather the information required for the present study a two-part questionnaire was used the first part of which was related to the demographic characteristics and the second part was pertained to the communication skills questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by taking advantage of the SPSS 19 software and also by making use of the descriptive statistics, Pierson correlation tests and independent t-test. Findings: the students’ average age was 22.58 ± 1.51 and out of the total number of the study population 21 individuals (48.8%) were women, 30 individuals (69.8%) were single. 18 individuals (41.9%) had an intermediate scoring ratio, 25 individuals (58.1%) had good scores and none of them were indicated to have had weak scorings. The relationship between age, gender and marital status with the communication skills and each of its components was not found to be statistically significant (P>0.05). Conclusions: the results of the present study indicated that nursing students’ communication skills is in an optimum level nut they can be enhanced further through planning educational programs.
Keywords: communication skills, nursing students.
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