NUR 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Therapeutic Relationship, Personal Boundaries, Facial Expression
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Self- awareness: the process of understanding one"s own beliefs, thoughts, motivations, biases, and. Chapter seven limitations and recognizing how they affect others: self-examination; a willingness to be introspective, avoidance of bias if self-examination involves another"s perspective. Bio-psychosocial self: biologic, physical characteristics, genetic makeup, chronic illness, or unobservable physical disability, psychological, psychological makeup; emotions, motivations, beliefs, traumatic experiences, social, sociocultural values, cultural beliefs; patterns of communication. Communication: verbal communication, spoken word, underlying emotion, context, connotation, nonverbal communication, gestures, expressions, body language, therapeutic communication, ongoing process of interaction in which meaning emerges. The nurse interpreted the patient"s statement as seeking role-modeling behavior for an adult man and judged self-disclosure in this instance to be therapeutic. Interventions based on theory: different from telling them what to do, clarification to track the patient"s verbal interaction. Gives patient time to gather thoughts: do not interpret silences, passive listening, nurse sits quietly and lets the patient talk.
