This training was created to teach acute care healthcare providers how to use a bedside communication strategy with adult patients who have difficulty using speech to be fully heard or understood.
Target audience: healthcare providers working with adult patients in hospitals
Persona: Tony is a 65-year-old man who had a stroke 2 weeks ago. Since his stroke, he has been diagnosed with aphasia and has difficulty using his speech to be fully heard and understood by hospital staff and his family. You work in a neurology hospital unit and are meeting Tony for the first time.