10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication
This podcast gives health professionals tools and information to improve patient communication and education. Today, with your next patient or client. I take a communication or education issue that professionals have raised, dig into it with some research, then give you a strategy you can use in your practice right away. And I do it all in about 10 minutes. Complete show transcripts, archive & notes at healthcommunicationpartners.com
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Inspiration for communicating across difference
Communicating across our differences is difficult, but necessary, in today’s highly polarized environment. I share real life examples, and advice from a language expert, as encouragement for talking…
00:09:59 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
“We’re collaborators, but we want to win.” Managing competition in collaborations
Competition and collaboration are sometimes thought of as opposites. I’ll share one thing people can do to help collaborations go better even when there’s competitors in the room. Collaborations have…
00:10:14 |
Fri 23 May 2025
Dr. Saria Saccocio shares 2 steps to find your way out of chaos
Today’s chaotic environment can leave us feeling unmoored and lost. Dr. Saria Saccocio explains 2 steps she’s using these days to manage the chaos, and reclaim some power. In today’s episode, Dr. Sar…
00:09:35 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Joe Liebel on Emotional Intelligence and workplace communication
It’s our 200th episode! Today you’ll hear a familiar voice tell a story about how emotional intelligence helped communication in the workplace. Today’s episode is our 200th episode! And today you’ll …
00:13:56 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Dr. Renata Schiavo on community-driven approaches to communication
Dr. Schiavo shares powerful stories about communication’s role in community engagement and pursuing health equity. We’re shining a light on public health and the value of the work done by public heal…
00:12:47 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Does your workflow need work? Make this your first step
Hear the story of a complicated workflow improvement case, and learn what you can do to help your own workflow…flow more smoothly. Is something in your workflow not working? I’ll help you get the wor…
00:11:06 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Don’t make these 7 Quality Improvement mistakes
Learn about 7 common QI trip hazards, and how you can avoid them. Now, I don’t typically start conversations with negatives, but sometimes when I talk with clients, especially super focused go -gette…
00:08:26 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
4 stories to tell in an interview
Interviews or evaluations are tough, but storytelling helps. Here’s how to use the SWOT matrix to help you prepare 4 stories you can use to answer common interview questions. This is an episode that …
00:10:58 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
One lesson our phones can teach us about communication
A close look at some of the ways we use our phones to communicate can teach us how to improve our communication in general. Need a break from the news? Today, I’m going to ask you to think about your…
00:10:06 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
“If communication isn’t part of your quality improvement, it should be.”
Learn 20 different ways communication can help in QI. In 10 minutes! Whether you’re in healthcare, public health, industry, or academia, quality improvement is part of your professional picture in on…
00:09:44 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
Handling interpersonal conflict
Conflict happens. Learn the 4 parts of any conflict, and some questions and phrases you can use to help you handle interpersonal conflict in communication. When we’re in a conversation, we want thing…
00:10:24 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
Why focus on communication?
We start the year by grounding ourselves. Why are we here? What are we doing? Why are we doing it this way? And I give one suggestion to guide your work in communication this year. The start of a new…
00:10:43 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
The Top 5 Episodes of 2024
Year end countdown time! Here’s our Top 5 Most Popular Episodes from 2024, as determined by you! Here we are! It’s the end of the year, and what I get to do now is count down for you the top five epi…
00:11:16 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
A quick exercise to help your shared decision-making
Improve your shared decision-making (SDM), no matter how you do it. Just like it says on the label, today’s episode is a quick exercise to help you improve your shared decision-making, no matter how …
00:09:55 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
How to make meetings more inclusive
Here’s three questions to help you look analytically at some communication patterns in your organization’s meetings. When meetings can value and accommodate diverse voices, that’s a big step toward c…
00:08:17 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
“You want that patient to be a partner.” Dr. Paul Ranelli on patient communication
Whether you’re a patient or a health care worker, learn how to encourage partnership through communication, thanks to Pharmacist Dr. Paul Ranelli. This is one of the many interviews you can find in o…
00:13:38 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
How health literacy can help your patient relationships
It’s our show’s 7th anniversary! Hear a story about a literacy trailblazer, and learn 3 steps you can take to improve patient relationships. It’s our series anniversary! Yes, 10 Minutes to Better Pat…
00:12:06 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Jessica Halem on communicating with LGBTQ+ patients Part 2
In Part 2 of my interview with Jessica Halem, MBA, Jessica shares useful phrases and encouragement for the next time you’re speaking with LGBTQ+ patients. Jessica Halem has spent the past 25 years wo…
00:10:47 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Jessica Halem on communicating with LGBTQ+ patients Part 1
I get to talk–and laugh, a lot–with Jessica Halem, MBA. We discuss communication with LGBTQ+ patients, improv, and her fancy article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Her insights are as powerf…
00:10:46 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
4 ways to refresh your ‘get vaxxed’ message for the fall COVID season
Fall fashion is the best fashion. But there’s another seasonal trend none of us wants to participate in. COVID was in the news again, as the fall transmission season started earlier than anticipated.…
00:11:13 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
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