The Impact of Communication Skills on Understanding Learning Outcomes for Nursing Students

Abstract

Communication is an important key in everyday life. By communicating we can interact with the people around us. Communication is needed in daily activities even it is a form of social and interpersonal interaction process in human life. Communication skills are a soft skill that can determine a person's success, so they need to be taught at all levels of education, because communication skills are vital skills in the development of human resources in forming superior and characterized humans. As a nurse, they need communication skill to communicate with their patients to make it clear about their health. This study is quasi-experimental research. Research subjects are about 68 nursing students. The results showed that there was no influence between student communication skills on learning outcomes for nursing students.