Nursing 1170A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Active Listening, Professional Boundaries, Therapeutic Relationship
9 Dec 2016
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Develop an understanding of caring and relational practice. How values, beliefs, perceptions and experiences impact relationships with colleagues, clients and ourselves. The nature of the nurse-client relationship is unique and differs from social, collegial, and family relationships. The therapeutic nurse-client relationship is a mutual learning experience and is based on the underlying humanity of nurse and client with mutual respect and acceptance of personal differences. Helping is not about doing for another; rather, the nurse works with the client to enable that person to make decisions and cope with crisis. It is a partnership that results in the client"s growth. A therapeutic relationship is a professional alliance the nurse and client join together for a defined period to achieve health-related treatment (client) goals . Guiding principles: presence, purpose, mutuality, authenticity, empathy, active listening, confidentiality, respect/dignity. Four standard statements of a nurse-client relationship: therapetutic communitcation, client centred care, maintaining boundaries, protect client from abyse.
