NSG 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Therapeutic Relationship, Self-Awareness, Shared Decision-Making In Medicine
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Developing a therapeutic relationship: a professional interpersonal alliance in which the nurse and client join together for a defined period to achieve health-related treatment goals. Critical due to the nature of vulnerability of a client. Nurse major focus to build trust: respect. Recognition of the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of each individual: professional intimacy. Unequal so partnering with client of import: empathy: expression of understanding, validating, and connecting with the meaning that the health care experience hold for the client. Ask how the patient would like to be addressed. Gather data including the patients feelings strength and limitations. The nurse is interested in them as a person: working. Helps the patient open up to you. Self awareness of stereotyping, biases, prematurely presuming understanding. Mirror the clients level of energy and language. Help patient transfer learning to post discharge care or future plans. Feelings of patient and nurse regarding termination.
