NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP Flashcards
What are the types of relationship?
- Social Relationship
- Intimate Relationship
- Therapeutic Relationship
-Friendships and socialization
- Superficial communication
Social Relationship
-People with emotional commitment
- May include sexual or emotional intimacy and shared mutual goals
Intimate Relationship
-Caregiver and care receiver are involved
-Inclined towards healing growth, and illness prevention
Therapeutic Relationship
Requires both parties to recognize each other as unique and important human beings, which facilitates mutual learning
Mutually-significant experience
Focuses on needs, experiences, feelings, and the ideas of the patient only
Patient-centered
Nurse and patient agree about the areas to work on and evaluate the outcomes
Goal oriented
A nurse is first a stranger to the patient as the patient is to the nurse
Stranger
Provides specific answers to questions usually formulated with relation to a larger problem
Resource person
Identifies learning needs and provides information to the patient and significant others to address the learning needs
Teacher
allows the patient to take an active role in the care plan
Leader
the nurse may be viewed by the patient as a substitute figure of a significant other
Surrogate
The nurse understands various professional devices and possesses the clinical skills necessary to perform the interventions that are in the best interest of the client.
Technical Expert
The nurse uses “interpersonal techniques” to assist clients to learn to adapt to difficulties or changes in life experiences
Counselor
It is essential for the staff nurse working in psychiatry to have a general knowledge of basic counseling techniques.
Psychiatric Nurse as a Counselor
What are the basic counseling techniques
-Therapeutic use of self
-Therapeutic communication
Using self as a therapeutic tool to establish therapeutic relationships with clients and to help them grow, change, and heal
Therapeutic Use of Self
The process of developing understanding of one own’s values, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, motivations, prejudices, strengths, and limitations and how these qualities affects others.
Self-Awareness
Self awareness activities
-Johari Window
-Journaling
Is the recognition of the unique pattern of values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, emotions, and needs and understanding about their impact on the self and others.
Self-Awareness
is a representation of the self and a tool that can be used to increase self-awareness (Luft, 1970).
Johari Window
The aspects of the self about which both the individual and others are aware
Open-Public Self
The part of the self that is known to others but remains hidden from the awareness of the individual.
Blind-Unaware Self
The part of the self that is known to the individual, but which the individual deliberately and consciously conceals from others
Hidden-Private Self