Pedagogical conditions of forming communication abilities (soft skills) of nurses in a medical professional college
Abstract
The article is devoted to a key aspect of preparing nurses for professional activity in medical professional colleges in the current crisis conditions, namely the formation of their communication skills (soft skills). The article presents an analysis of the works of modern Ukrainian and foreign scholars, which form the basis of the detailed study. In particular, the content of such leading scientific categories as: «conditions», «pedagogical conditions» and their difference from the concept of «factors» is clarified.
The primary attention is focused on the substantiation of pedagogical conditions for forming future nurses' communicative abilities during the educational process in a medical professional college based on a person-oriented approach. It is predicted that the set of selected pedagogical conditions, which are interrelated and complement each other, will contribute to the optimization of the studied phenomenon. The publication identifies four key pedagogical conditions for the formation of communication abilities (soft skills) of future specialists: improving the content of training of nurses in regards to the formation of communication abilities (soft skills), introducing modern teaching methods; strengthening the motivation of future nurses to self-educate and self-organise activities in order to form communication abilities (soft skills); establishing an effective «subject-subject» interaction between all participants in the educational process according to the presentation of the «teacher-student» scheme on the basis of person- oriented learning; enrichment of the toolkit of communication means for the formation of the ability to establish effective communication in the process of professional activity.
Attention is also paid to innovative and traditional forms and methods of activating the process of forming students’ communicative abilities as an important component of their professional formation and personal development.
