01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Process Validation, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Care Plan

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: L.Jacobs

Document Summary

Occurs between two or more people with a goal to exchange messages. At any one time, you are only seeing what they are actually doing . Characterized by an unequal sharing of information. The nurse is the helper, and the patient is the person being helped. Communication is the means used to establish rapport and helping-trust relationships. Person providing assistance is professionally accountable for the outcomes and the means used to attain them. Establish tone and guidelines for the relationship. Provide the patient with orientation to the health care system. Work together to meet the patient"s needs. Provide whatever assistance is needed to achieve each goal. Examine goals of helping relationship for attainment. Make suggestions for future efforts, if necessary. Encourage patients to express emotions about the termination. If appropriate, help the patient establish a helping relationship with another nurse. Assist the patient transferring from one agency to another or from one unit in an agency to another.