Chapter 1.0:
Basic Counseling Skills

For people outside of the medical profession, a hospital or doctor's office can be an intimidating place. The job of making a patient feel comforted and cared for often falls on the shoulders of the nurses. To best meet the needs of a patient, nurses must learn the principles of therapeutic communication, which is defined as communication strategies or counseling methods that support a patient's feeling of well-being.

Here are the areas covered in your learning journey for this week:

1. Concept of Counseling

2. Basic Counseling Skills

3. Steps in Counseling

• By the end of this lesson, you should learn the concept therapeutic patient-nurse communication.

• Be able to understand the challenges of chronic diseases in problem solving.

• Be able to apply the basic counseling skills into practice.