Episode 5: Overcoming Communication Barriers of Family Centered Care
In this episode:
- What is the Narrative Initiative and how it was started?
- How NICU professionals can find commonality with NICU parents
- What is patient and family-centered care?
- How language in communication affects those we’re communicating with
- How best to communicate with parents in the NICU
This episode is no longer eligible for continuing education credits.
Guest: Dr. Lorraine Dickey
Resources mentioned in this podcast
- Narrative Medicine, as mentioned by Rita Charon, general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University
- The Narrative Initiative
- The Narrative Initiative on Facebook
- International Journal of Communication and Healthcare
- Dr. Lorraine Dickey
- Gathering of Kindness
- The Hush Foundation
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