Think Tank
The CHC Think Tank’s collective of interdisciplinary professionals tackles the multidimensional challenges facing healthcare and distills their expertise into practical solutions.
What we do
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1-on-1 Communication Training
Team Communication Training
Deep dives
Empowering Nurse Autonomy
How can healthcare organizations better define nursing roles and responsibilities to promote clinical autonomy without compromising collaborative communication
Bridging Past and Present: Strategies for Compassionate Trauma-Informed Care
How can healthcare providers improve communication to better support patients who may experience trauma-triggered responses during care?
Safety Planning with Parents of Students That Express Suicidality
What communication strategies can mental health providers use to discuss safety planning with parents of students that express suicidality?
Navigating the Conflictual Patient-Clinician Relationship
How can the clinician best navigate the use of uncivil, manipulative, and physically disruptive behavior that can occur among people who are ill, particularly when they feel disregarded?
Health and Persuasion
How does it feel to know your healthcare team might be trying to persuade you? How can clinicians use persuasive techniques without being perceived as being coercive?
COACH Program
Enrolling in the Communication Optimization and Compassion in Healthcare (COACH) program enhances clinician communication skills, decreases clinician burnout, and increases patient satification.
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Read about the impact COACH has made
Recent publications
Kleiss, I., Kortlever, J., Karyampudi, P., Ring, D., Brown, L., Reichel, L., Driscoll, M., Vagner, G. (2020). A Comparison of 4 Single-Question Measures of Patient Satisfaction. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, 27(1). https://www.mdedge.com/jcomjournal/article/216218/business-medicine/comparison-4-single-question-measures-patient
Menendez, M., van Hoorn, B., Mackert, M., Donovan, E., Chen, N., Ring, D. (2017). Patients With Limited Health Literacy Ask Fewer Questions During Office Visits With Hand Surgeons. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 475(5). https://journals.lww.com/clinorthop/abstract/2017/05000/patients_with_limited_health_literacy_ask_fewer.3.aspx
van Hoorn, B., Menendez, M., Mackert, M., Donovan, E., van Heijl, M., Ring, D. (2019). Missed Empathic Opportunities During Hand Surgery Office Visits. HAND, 16(5). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1558944719873395