{"id":806,"date":"2022-03-31T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/?p=806"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:37:06","slug":"workshops-explore-empathetic-communication-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/workshops-explore-empathetic-communication-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshops explore empathetic communication in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michelle Lobchuk, associate professor in the College of Nursing, recently taught a series of workshops on empathetic communication for health care educators and professionals through the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences\u2019 office of education and faculty development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A UM alumna, Lobchuk has been with the College of Nursing since 2003. Her research expertise is in empathetic communication, inter-professional team empathy, family caregiving and self-care management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last few years she has worked on a project to improve empathetic communication between health care students and their patients, families and caregivers at the Caregiver Communication Research Environment (CAreLab) at Grace Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one ever taught me to be an empathetic instructor, but it is so key in practicing health care,\u201d Lobchuk said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty from across the faculty\u2019s five colleges of nursing, medicine, pharmacy, rehabilitation sciences and dentistry took part in the workshops, along with some attendees from other institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe started with self-awareness,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s the key thing about empathy \u2013 you have to be aware of your own biases, prejudices and assumptions of why you interpret things the way you do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the session topics were teacher empathy and how to receive feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur students in health sciences need to know how to receive feedback in a respective manner, especially at the bedside, because sometimes it feels like someone is criticizing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt all starts with good role modelling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final session looked at a smartphone app that Lobchuk has been developing with Dr Nicole Harder, associate professor, College of Nursing and Mindermar Professor in Human Simulation, and Dr. Marcia Friesen, dean of the Price Faculty of Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCOVID has pushed us to be a little smarter in terms of how we use technology, and it has taught us that there are different ways to teach,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want the app to be self-directed by the user. It\u2019s one thing to be told how to communicate with people, but it\u2019s another to actually practice it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobchuk began testing the app with nursing students last year. Since then, she\u2019s approached by researchers at other universities across North America to continue bringing the app to reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m still doing some usability testing, but we are getting a lot of interest. Those that teach this are eager for new tools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshops were held virtually in February and March. Lobchuk said she\u2019d be interested in teaching them again if the interest is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe messaging is so important, especially now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michelle Lobchuk, associate professor in the College of Nursing, recently taught a series of workshops on empathetic communication for health care educators and professionals through the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences\u2019 office of education and faculty development. A UM alumna, Lobchuk has been with the College of Nursing since 2003. Her research expertise is in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/nursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}