"Communications in Nursing" is a comprehensive communications textbook providing a thorough explanation of all essential communications behaviours, and instructs nurses in specific methods for handling difficult interpersonal situations. Each chapter provides exercises that incorporate actual nursing situations to help students learn to communicate assertively and responsibly. This new edition presents the impact of the patient's and family's feelings and illustrates how those feelings should be handled by the caring nurse. It includes a new section on providing specific documentation, presents new content on the relationship between social support and health and features a section on the effects of culture on value systems and the psychosocial characteristics of various cultures. The book is intended for trained and student nurses in all specialities.