Interpersonal Communication: Beyond the Frontlines of Healthcare

Interpersonal communication, the clinical skill known to hold patient-provider connections together, is also said to be the driving force behind positive health outcomes. Consisting of verbal cues, written and non-written prompts, and active listening, this network is needed as it can lessen stress while promoting health and safeguarding one's quality of life. Do these actions and relationships come across as the same for patients who vary in social status? Can this standardized care method be the tool needed when developing influences and theories of disease prevention methods? Join Erica Noel, MS, as she moves past the exterior of healthcare and what we know about interpersonal communication into mechanisms of transforming our health system through relational and comparative insight and care.