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Abstract Effective communication in healthcare industry is vital in maintaining a good physician-patient relationship (Ramsay, 2008; Pincook, 2004). Patient safety and wellbeing can be compromised as a result of poor communication between members of the multi-disciplinary team and between staff and patients. Communication skills are verbal and non-verbal words, phrases, tone of voice, facial expressions, body languages and gestures that a person used in the interaction with patient. It is…

Asking permission gives the patient a sense of control over the situation and answers to the questions can help the nurse assess readiness to learn. To assess readiness to learn, the nurse will assess such things, as the patient’s present health condition, emotional state, and environment, all factors that can affect a diabetic patient’s ability to learn . The nurse should also assess the patient’s ability to complete foot care tasks independently. If the patient is unable to complete any…

Figure 1. 3 Convergence of Interest Model [Modified from Saxton et. al.] (Saxton, 2009). According to the educational experts from over 16 top pharmaceutical companies in Germany, the industry engagement in medical education can be grouped into four categories. a) Industry-provided product specific training b) Industry-provided professional development and medical disease education c) Collaborative partnerships d) Support to third party provided medical education a) Industry-provided…