Exploring the possibilty to develop language based instruction to improve nurses’ oral case presentation skills

Nurses as interlocutors play a crucial role in disseminating information among the health team members. Oral case presentation is one of the nurses’ significant clinical communication tasks. A skillful presentation of a clinical case by nurses to doctors has a significant contribution to Health care realm. But no formal teaching is imparted to help students learn case presentation skills. Students learn oral presentation by trial and error through rhetoric practice based on observation rather than teaching. This may delay development of effective communication skills and result in acquisition of unintended professional values (Richard J Haber, and Lorelei A Lingard²³). In recent times teaching instructions to improvise the clinical OCP skills have been attempted, yet most of them focus on improving ‘what to say’ i.e. Content (Nursing) Based OCP Instruction, rather the ‘how to say’ i.e. Language Based OCP Instruction. This paper proposes a teaching module to develop English competence to carry out OCP using the guidance of OCP genre reviews.