The clinical communications suite is is designed to provide teaching facilities for healthcare professionals to improve their communications skills and enhance the quality of patient care.
The suite is housed on the fourth floor of Ferguson House at St Helier Hospital. It is signposted from the stairs near the main entrance to Ferguson House and also via the central stairwell.
Facilities and aids
The suite allows for consultations/interviews with either simulated patients or hospital patients in surroundings that mimic clinical practice i.e. counselling room, GP surgery or ward.
The two interviewing rooms and two of the clinical cubicles in the clinical teaching suite are linked via camera and sound to both seminar rooms.
Each seminar room can record action taking place in any of the four rooms. This action can be viewed in real time or played back from a video recorder.
Seminar room 2 provides space for up to 18 people, seminar room 3 provides space for up to 13 people. The facilities in each seminar room can also accommodate laptops, hand-held cameras and many other audio-video equipment.
Additional teaching aids:
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Ceiling-mounted digital projector
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Laptop computer for PowerPoint presentations
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OHP
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35mm slide projector
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Video projector
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Flipcharts
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Whiteboards
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Ability to use AV equipment
Who is the suite for?
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Undergraduate medical students
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Nursing directorate
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Student nurses
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Postgraduate medical centre
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Pre-registration house officers
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Other junior doctors
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Allied professional groups i.e. paramedics, ODAs
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Physiotherapy students
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Student radiographers
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Other professionals allied to medicine
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Patient Advisory Liaison Service (PALS)
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Trust corporate educational groups
