Clinical Pearls for Communicating with Patients with Mike Stewart
Aug 16, 2023
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Clinical communication expert Mike Stewart shares practical tips on improving communication with patients, emphasizing the importance of soft skills like empathy. He highlights the significance of genuine conversation over robotic methods in healthcare and discusses empowering patients by relinquishing some control to enhance their autonomy.
Effective communication involves listening, understanding patient needs, and guiding instead of instructing.
Patient empowerment is key, professionals should surrender some control and allow patients to take a more active role.
Deep dives
Enhancing Communication Skills in Healthcare
Health professionals need to prioritize quality communication with patients. Mike Stewart-On, a physiotherapist, emphasized the importance of learning from professions like hairdressers who excel in communication. By listening, understanding patient needs, and guiding rather than instructing, healthcare professionals can improve patient interactions.
Empowering Patients Through Empowering Ourselves
Empowering patients starts with healthcare professionals surrendering some power, allowing patients to take more control. Professionals can learn from driving instructors who empower learners to take the lead. By focusing on patient empowerment, professionals can work less, guide more, and foster meaningful patient engagement.
Promoting Patient Ownership in Exercise Prescription
Encouraging patient ownership in exercises involves letting go of control and allowing patients to create their own meaningful exercises. Patients should feel the exercise relates to their daily life and goals. By shifting focus to patient-driven exercise creation and meaningful engagement, healthcare professionals can enhance patient outcomes.
In this episode, Mike Stewart covers some wonderful anecdotes and practical tips on how we can communicate better both verbally, non verbally and by playing with our consult structure.
Want to learn more about communication? Mike Stewart has done a brilliant Masterclass with us, called “Know Pain: A practical guide to persistent pain therapy" where he goes further into depth about language, pain and communication. You can watch his whole class now with our 7-day free trial: https://physio.network/masterclass-stewart
Mike is a physiotherapist, researcher and university lecturer with over twenty years experience of helping people to overcome pain. Mike is a dedicated practice-based educator who is passionate about providing evidence-based education to a wide variety of health professionals and his Know Pain courses have been taught in 17 countries.
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Our host is Michael Rizk from Physio Network and iMoveU
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