7Soft Skills Effects on Knowledge Translation in Healthcare

Evidence from the Field

Francesca Dal Mas, Ernesto-Marco Bagarotto, Lorenzo Cobianchi

Soft Skills and Healthcare

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the importance of Soft Skills in healthcare and explore their effects on Knowledge Translation (KT). KT has critical implications in healthcare because the sector connects a diverse variety of professionals and multiple stakeholders who need to communicate fast and effectively to accomplish their mission ensuring the wellbeing of patients and building a healthy society. In this context, hard skills and technical knowledge are fundamental to make accurate decisions to restore patients’ health, but Soft Skills are critical as ...

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