Chapter 5: Building the Nurse-Client Relationship Flashcards
Trust: This builds when?
The client is confident in the nurse and when the nurses presence conveys integrity and reliability . Develops when client believes that the nurse is consistent with their words.
Trust: Some behaviors that can be done to build trust include
caring, interest, understanding, consistency, honesty, keeping promises, and listening to client
Trust: Congruence occurs when?
the words and actions match.
Trust: Example of Congruence?
I am leaving and will be back at 2pm tomorrow. And is actually back at 2pm showing the words and action matched.
Trust: Example of Incongruent behavior?
When voice/body language is inconsistent with what they say. “Of Course I like you” but then slowly backing away.
Genuine Interest: When does this occur?
When the nurse is comfortable with the patient, aware of their strengths and limitations, and clearly focused
Genuine Interest: Example of dishonest or artifical behavior?
ASking a question and not waiting for an answer. or talking over them.
Genuine Interest: When is it useful to use a self-disclosure example?
Most helpful when they represent common day-to-day experiences and do not involve value-laden topics.
Genuine Interest: Example of a poor self-disclosure example?
It is rarely helpful to talk about your own divorce or infeditely.
Empathy: What is this?
Ability of the nurse to perceive the meanings and feelings of the client and to communicate that understanding to the client
Empathy: By listening and sensing the importance of the sitation to the client, the nurse can imagine what?
The client’s feelings about the experience
Empathy: Both the client and nurse give the “goft of self”when empathy occurs meaning what?
The clienet feeling safe enough to share feelings and the nurse by listening closely enough to understand
Empathy: Several therapeutic communications help the nurse send empathetic messages. What are some techniques?
Reflection, Restatement, and clarification
Empathy: “I’m so confused. My son just visted and wants to know where the safety deposit box key is”. Example of reflectiona nd clarification to this question
Reflection: You’re confused because your son asked for the safety deposit key?
Clarification: Are you confused about the purpose of your sons visit?
Empathy: What is Sympathy?
Feelings of concern or compassion one shows for another
Empathy: Why is it problematic to use sympathy?
The nurses feelings of sadness and pity could influence the relationship and hinder nurses ability to focus on clients needs.
Acceptance: How can one convey acceptance to client?
The nurse does not become upset or responds negatively to a clients outbursts, anger, or acting out conveys accepance
Acceptance: This means acceptance of the person as
worthy
Acceptance: Appropriate response to John putting his hands around you in session?
“John, do not place your hand on me. We are working on your relationship with your girlfriend and that does not require you to touch me. Now, let’s continue”
Acceptance: Inapporpiate response to John putting his arms around you?
John, stop that! Whats gotten into you? I am leaving and maybe I’ll return tomorrow.
Positive Regard: What is thhis known as?
The nurse appreciates the client as a unique and worthwhile human being can respect the client regardless of his or her behavior, background, or lifestyle
Positive Regard: How can a nurse convey positive regard?
Calling the client by name, spending time with the client, and listening and responding openly
Positive Regard: The nurse should do what when making the care plan with the client?
Consider the clients ideas and preferances
Positive Regard: The nurse relies on presence, or attending, which i s
nonverbal and verbal communication techniques to make the client aware that he or she is receiving full attention
Positive Regard: Nonverbal techniques that create an atmosphere of presence include
leaning toward the client, maintaining eye contact, being relaxed, having arms resting at sides and having interested but netural atitude
Positive Regard: What does Verbally Attending mean?
The nurse avoids communicating value judgements about hte client’s behavior
Positive Regard: What is a proper way to verbally attend and respond if client says they yelled at their mom for an hour?
“What happened then” or “You must have been really upset”. The nurse avoided negative opinions or value judgements
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What is Self-Awareness?
Process of developing an understanding of one’s own values, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, atittudes, motivations, prejudices, stengths and limitations
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What are values?
Abstract standards that give a person a sense of right and wrong and establish a code of conduct for lviing
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What does the values clarififcation process have?
Choosing, Prizing, and Acting
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What is Choosing?
When person considers a range of possibilites and freely chooses the value that feels right
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What is Prizing?
When the person considers the value, cheerishes it, and pubicly attaches it to him or herself
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What is acting?
When the person puts value into action
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: Example of Acting?
Being clean but having a messy roommate. They viewed the space differently, discussed the conflict of interest, and finally decided to negotiate with her roommate
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What are beliefs?
Ideas that one holds to be true.
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: What are attitudes?
General feelings or a frame of reference aorund which a person organizes knowledge about the world
Self-Awareness and Therapeutic Use Of Self: Positive mental attitude occurs when
a person chooses to put a positive spin on an experience, a comment, or a judgement.
Therapeutic Use Of Self: What is this?
When by developing self-awareness and beginning to understand his or her attitudes, nurse can begin to use aspects of his or her personality, experiences, values , feelings, intelligence, needs to establish relationship with clients