Relationship Development & Therapeutic Communication Flashcards
Milieu and community meeting
Milieu:
Place for healing
Community meeting:
Tells pt the plan, expectation, goal for the day, tell them who is helping today
Roles of nurse
Focus on clients ideas, feelings
Identify their needs (not what you think they are)
Discuss problem solving
Help develop client strengths and new coping skills
Encourage positive behavior changes
Develop sense of autonomy and self reliance
Portray geuineness, empathy
Empathy vs sympathy
Empathy is good
-remaining nonjudgemental and attempt to understand clients actions and feelings
Sympathy is bad
-nontherapeutic, feeling the way the client does
Therapeutic relationship
Pt centered
Goal oriented
Takes time to establish
Have positive impact on success of tx
Supervision
Enhances ability to examine own thoughts/feelings
Talking to others to see what they thinl about how youre communicating with pts
Therpeutic use of self
Using personality consciously to be relatable and structure nursing interventions
Good things for therapeutic relationshsips
Consistent approach
Attentive listening
Comfort level
Consistently avaiable
Adjustment of pace to client needs
Self awareness of own thoughts/feelings
Rapport
Pt factors that are good for therapeutic relationship
Trusting attitude
Willingness to talk
Active participation
Consistently available
Signs of blurred boundaires
Relationship begins to meet needs of nurse rather than clients
Transference
Pt views a member of healthcare team as having characteristics of another person who has been significant to the clients personal life
Ex: i love/hate my aunt kathy and you remind me of her
Countertransference
Nurse displaces characteristics of people in their past onto a client.
Ex: pt that remind you of your mom
-affects your care
-need to be self aware
Fix for tranference
Getting them someone they have a good relationship with
Explain that a transference is happening
Restart and reintroduce yourself
Phases of a therapeutic relationship
Preorientation
Orientation
Working
Termination
Preorientation
Before meeting the pt
Going through the chart
May develop bias/assumptions
-check with yourself to prevent countertranference
Oritentation:
First meeting them
Intro
Establish boundaries
Parameters around meeting
Confidentiality
Build trust
Discuss ecpectations
Set goals
Explore ideas/issues/needs
Explore the meaning of behaviors
Set limits of testing/inappropriate behaviors