Benefits
Direct benefits
Through conducting surveys with NUS nursing and medical school graduates, interviews with vice dean of NUS medical school as well as with head officers of NUH, we were able to find out the lack of communication skill training among newly inducted nurses and doctors. Besides, via the interview with vice dean of NUS medical school, we were able to find out the feasibility of incorporating relevant communication skill training into curriculum. Hence, this proposal serves as an indicator for the importance of communication skill between doctors and nurses and further research on the issue of introducing communication training into NUS curriculum.
Indirect benefits
With introduction of communication skill courses into current curriculum, there are mainly two benefits.
Firstly, both from secondary sources and our primary interviews, it suggests that communication between doctors and nurses plays a vital role in the quality healthcare of patients. Without effective communication between doctors and nurses, it will hinder effective collaboration between them and thus influence patients’ healthcare. By introducing proper communication skill training between doctors and nurses into NUS current curriculum, it will provide students with opportunities to interact with each other and improve effective communication skills in nursing and medical schools. Hence, newly inducted nurses and doctors will be familiarized with such skills and do not have to pick up such skills by themselves. As a result, the healthcare of patients will be guaranteed to a great extent.
Secondly, with the frequent interactions between students from nursing and medical schools, future nurses and doctors can have a better understanding of what the role and duty of the other party has as well as the potential difficulties existing between them. Hence, when they go to workplaces, confusions and conflicts can be minimized. At the same time, it may also be helpful to improve the relation between doctors and nurses.
Direct benefits
Through conducting surveys with NUS nursing and medical school graduates, interviews with vice dean of NUS medical school as well as with head officers of NUH, we were able to find out the lack of communication skill training among newly inducted nurses and doctors. Besides, via the interview with vice dean of NUS medical school, we were able to find out the feasibility of incorporating relevant communication skill training into curriculum. Hence, this proposal serves as an indicator for the importance of communication skill between doctors and nurses and further research on the issue of introducing communication training into NUS curriculum.
Indirect benefits
With introduction of communication skill courses into current curriculum, there are mainly two benefits.
Firstly, both from secondary sources and our primary interviews, it suggests that communication between doctors and nurses plays a vital role in the quality healthcare of patients. Without effective communication between doctors and nurses, it will hinder effective collaboration between them and thus influence patients’ healthcare. By introducing proper communication skill training between doctors and nurses into NUS current curriculum, it will provide students with opportunities to interact with each other and improve effective communication skills in nursing and medical schools. Hence, newly inducted nurses and doctors will be familiarized with such skills and do not have to pick up such skills by themselves. As a result, the healthcare of patients will be guaranteed to a great extent.
Secondly, with the frequent interactions between students from nursing and medical schools, future nurses and doctors can have a better understanding of what the role and duty of the other party has as well as the potential difficulties existing between them. Hence, when they go to workplaces, confusions and conflicts can be minimized. At the same time, it may also be helpful to improve the relation between doctors and nurses.
My comments:
ReplyDelete1. Personally, I feel that the first sentence provides a bit too much detail about the survey and interviews and it will be more suitable to place them in the methodology part of the proposal. Besides, you mentioned about the “interview with the vice dean” again in the next line.
2. Communication skills seem to be a bit too broad in context. I feel that it is more appropriate to state down which specific communication skill your proposal would want to focus on.
3. Under the paragraph for indirect benefits, I feel that it is more appropriate to put “it was suggested that” than “it suggests”.
4. Then, I feel that it will be clearer for you to state whether ineffective collaboration will lead to a positive or negative influence on the providence of healthcare to patients.
5. In addition, you mentioned about newly inducted nurses and doctors being familiarized with “such skills”, it will be good if you can be more succinct here.
6. Then, I also feel that it is more appropriate to mention why and how healthcare of patients may be benefited when the doctors and nurses are well equipped with the essential “communication skill”. Try not to use a definite word like “guaranteed”.
7. Last paragraph: “roles and duties” instead of the singular form ?