Looking for tools and resources to help your students develop soft skills in healthcare careers? We’ve got you covered. From communication to teamwork, we have a variety of programs and resources to help your students cultivate these important skills. Read on to find out more about these interactive tools and discover some free resources you can use today, including an infographic on soft skills in healthcare and a guide on scenario-based learning in healthcare.
Scenario-Based Training in Healthcare: Tips, Tricks, and Scenarios You Can Use Today
Get ideas and best practices, plus free scenarios you can use immediately, for engaging your students in scenario-based learning with manikins, students or standardized patients.
Healthcare Interpersonal Skills Program
Use our easy-to-implement Healthcare Interpersonal Skills Program to develop essential soft skills in healthcare. Two sets of curricula allow for lessons focused on 10 interpersonal skills, such as problem solving and critical thinking, and eight lessons on clinical empathy and patient communication. The scenario cards offer real-world practice opportunities.
Unlock a free online trial of the clinical empathy and patient communication lessons here.
Soft Skills Program for Caring for Patients with Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, and PTSD
Use the Soft Skills Program for Caring for Patients with Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, and PTSD to introduce students to soft skills in healthcare. Students can build empathy by participating in the included dementia and auditory hallucination simulation. The scenario cards, which clearly outline scenario roles and patient symptoms, help students develop a variety of vital soft skills.
See a sample of the scenario cards here.
Employability and Leadership Soft Skills Programs
The Employability and Leadership Soft Skills Programs are full of hands-on, easy-to-implement activities to teach students 18-20 different soft skills that are important in any career path. The programs use real-world applications of skills, like trust and technology use, to keep students engaged while they learn. They can help supplement existing programs, teach a complete unit on skills, and more!
Want a closer look? Check out free trials of our online employability and leadership programs!
Healthcare Career Scenario Cards
These pathway/occupation-specific workplace scenario cards cover real situations and soft skills in healthcare careers. Use these cards to develop soft skills within specific occupations through small-group discussions, as a large-group icebreaker, or as an individual challenge. These scenario cards are great for generating real-life discussion, prompting reflection activities, and more.
We offer the following scenario cards for healthcare careers: Nursing, Nursing: Geriatric Patients, Medical Assistant, Sports Medicine, and EMT.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare Program
Use our Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare Program for foundational knowledge about common ethical and legal issues in healthcare. This complete program uses NCHSE-aligned lesson plans, scenario cards, and student workbooks to address key soft skills in healthcare, such as respect and empathy. Material covered includes religious and cultural values and respect and empathy for all patients, legal responsibilities and implications, and more.
Get a free trial of the online version of this program here.
CNA and Nursing Skills Sim Kits
Use these unique CNA and Nursing Skills Sim Kits to create interactive practice scenarios for your students that address important soft skills in healthcare. Each kit focuses on a specific topic and includes all the tools needed to create three different scenarios that help build empathy and communication skills. Additionally, the scenario guide includes a list of needed props, step-by-step instructions, and more.
See an overview of our CNA Skills Sim Kit: Focus on Mobility Impairment Scenario Guide for information on who these kits are designed for, how long it takes to teach the content, and the goal of the kit.
Medical Manikin Quick Scenario Set
This Medical Manikin Quick Scenario Set includes 100 complete scenarios for use with low- and medium-fidelity medical manikins. The included scenarios focus on seven areas: infant, pediatric, adult, geriatric, clinical setting, emergency scenarios, and soft skills in healthcare. The scenario cards are ideal for small groups or stations.
Check out some of the scenarios in this set for free in our scenario-based learning guide!
FREE Resources
- A variety of infographics, including one on soft skills in healthcare, that you can display in your classroom
- A guide on how to implement scenario-based learning into your health science program, which includes free scenarios you can use today
- Our webinars, which cover a variety of health science education topics; we recommend 5 Strategies (Plus Hands-On Tools) For Helping Future Healthcare Professionals Develop Geriatric Sensitivity and Using Real-World Scenarios for Teaching Employability Skills to get you started
