Verbal Skills For Nursing
Our verbal skills programs help you prepare talks, defuse professional conflicts and establish useful contacts. We offer books, online resources, workshops and appointments to help you become better speakers and communicators.
Prepare And Practice a Public Talk
- Through workshops featuring communication professionals and experienced faculty and staff, you can learn to compose clear and informative slides or posters, speak with confidence and engage your audience.
Prepare For a Challenging Professional Conversation
Ever fretted before asking a professor for a recommendation letter? Wondering how to negotiate your workload or time off with your manager? Finding it difficult to communicate with a member of your clinical team? That’s understandable. Stress, power imbalance and a lack of experience often make it challenging for trainees to ask for what they need and get what they want.
- Through appointments and workshops, we help you clear your head and develop a strategy to prepare for an important conversation rationally.
- For additional support in conflict resolution, contact the UCSF Problem Resolution Center.
Learn to Network And Find Mentors
Good mentors and a strong professional network are key to your success. They help you develop your professional skills, find jobs and make career decisions.
- Whether you're a master's student, doctoral student, or postdoc, we can help you personalize a strategy to identify and approach potential contacts and mentors and maintain your professional network.
- Make an appointment or come to one of our workshops.
Practice Your Interview And Negotiation Skills
- For more information, please visit the Nursing Job Search section.