Tips from TSE: Start clowning around to connect with patients
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, February 6, 2009
Nurses frequently become wrapped up in making sure their technical skills are done by the book, so they miss a chance to connect with patients, says Betty Leef, MSN, RN, a full-time faculty instructor at the New York University College of Nursing. That’s why Leef sent her nursing students to clown school.
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