Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Psych Nursing > Therapeutic Communication > Flashcards

Therapeutic Communication Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Nursing Mental Health flashcards Nursing Management of Care flashcards NCLEX-PN® flashcards NCLEX-RN® flashcards Psychology 101 flashcards Nursing Fundamentals flashcards GRE® Psychology flashcards Nursing Pediatrics flashcards Nursing Safety & Infection flashcards Nursing Pharmacology flashcards
1
Q

Phases of a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship

A

– preinteraction
– orientation
– working
– termination

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Preinteraction

A

– Before first contact

– Self-understanding

– Self-assessment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Introductory or Orientation Phase

A

– Includes pt’s reason for seeking help

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Orientation Phase

A
  • Formulating a response
  • Exploring feelings
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Formulating a contract

A

*Establish trust, understanding, acceptance, open communication, & contract
*Nurse-Pt contract
» Names
» Roles
» Responsibilities
» Expectations
» Purpose
» Meeting place and time
» Conditions for termina

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Exploring feelings:

A

Includes exploring perceptions, thoughts, feelings, & actions

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Working Phase

A
  • Most of therapeutic work is carried out during this phase
  • Explore stressors
  • Promote the development of insight
  • Master anxieties
  • Increase independence & self-responsibility
  • Develop constructive coping mechanisms
  • Focus is on behavioral change
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Termination Phase

A
  • May be most difficult & most important
  • Learning is maximized for both patient & nurse
  • Exchange feelings & memories & evaluate pt. progress & goal attainment
  • Consider: what are the criteria for determining readiness for termination
  • Patient behavior may regress
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Nonverbal Communication

A
  • Physical Appearance
  • Body Movement & Posture
  • Touch
  • Facial expression
  • Eye behavior
  • Vocal cues or paralanguage
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Facilitative Communication

A
  • Communication that facilitates the development of a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship
  • Communication is verbal & nonverbal
  • Meaning: 7% by words, 38% by paralinguistic cues (voice), & 55% by body cues.

OR

  • 70 to 90% of all communication is nonverbal
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Touch

A

– Use with great care
– Easily misinterpreted as invasion or sexual overture
– Can illicit an aggressive response
– Think about the flight or fight response of anxiety

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

3 elements of communication

A
  • Perception: receiver
  • Evaluation: receiver
  • Transmission: response to sender from receiver, aka - feedback
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Why Therapeutic Communication Techniques?

A
  • Preserves self-respect
  • Understanding precedes giving information or advice
  • Common courtesy
  • Make request and wait for response
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Therapeutic communication technique examples

A
  • Listening
  • Broad openings
  • Restating
  • Clarification & validation
  • Reflection
  • General leads Placing the event in time or sequence
  • Sharing perceptions
  • Theme identification
  • Silence
  • Making observations
  • Encouraging description of perceptions Encouraging comparison
  • Focusing
  • Accepting
  • Recognizing
  • Offering self
  • Exploring
  • Presenting reality
  • Voicing doubt
  • Verbalizing the implied attempting to translate words into feelings formulating a plan of action
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Non-Therapeutic Communication

A
  • Belittling feelings
  • Judging
  • Requesting an explanation
  • Giving Advice
  • Changing topics
  • Probing
  • Rejecting
  • Defending
  • Indicating an external source of power
  • Giving Reassurance
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Responsive Dimensions

A
  • Genuiness
  • Respect
  • Empathy (how does this differ from sympathy?)
  • Concreteness (how might this vary during different stages of the therapeutic relationship)
17
Q

Action Dimensions

A
  • Confrontation
  • Immediacy
  • Nurse self-disclosure
  • Emotional catharsis
  • Role playing
18
Q

Confrontation

A
  • Discrepancy between self-concept & self-ideal
  • Discrepancy between verbal & nonverbal
  • Discrepancy between pts expressed experience of self and the nurses experience of the pt.
  • Effective confrontation is associated with empathy
19
Q

Immediacy

A
  • Focus on pts function in nurse-pt relationship
  • Requires sensitivity to feelings & willingness/ability to deal with feelings
20
Q

Nurse self-disclosure

A

– Use judiciously

– Always for pts benefit

21
Q

Emotional catharsis

A

– Cues from pt indicate readiness

22
Q

Therapeutic Impasses

A
  • Resistance Transference Countertransference
  • Boundary violations

– Role – Time – Place & space – Self-disclosure

23
Q

Peplau (1991) identified several subroles within the role of the nurse, which are?

A
  1. Stranger
  2. The Resource Person
  3. The Teacher
  4. The Leader
  5. The Surrogate
  6. The Technical Expert
  7. The Counselor
24
Q

The Stranger Subrole

A

The nurse is at first a stranger to the client. The client is also a stranger to the nurse.

Priniciples: (1) accepting the patient as he is; (2) treating the patient as an emotionally able stranger and relat- ing to him on this basis until evidence shows him to be otherwise.

25
Q

The Resource Person subrole

A

the nurse explains, in language that the client can understand, information related to the client’s health care.

26
Q

The Teacher subrole

A

nurse identifies learning needs and provides information required by the client or family to improve the health situation.

27
Q

The Leader subrole

A

According to Peplau, “democratic leadership in nursing situations implies that the patient will be permitted to be an active participant in designing nursing plans for him”

28
Q

The surrogate subrole

A

Outside of their awareness, clients often perceive nurses as symbols of other individ- uals. They may view the nurse as a mother figure, a sibling, a former teacher, or another nurse who has provided care in the past.

29
Q

The technical expert subrole

A

The nurse understands various professional devices and possesses the clinical skills necessary to perform the interven- tions that are in the best interest of the client.

30
Q

The counselor subrole

A

The nurse uses “interpersonal techniques” to assist clients to learn to adapt to difficulties or changes in life experiences. Peplau (1991) stated, “Counseling in nursing has to do with helping the patient to remember and to understand fully what is happening to him in the present situation, so that the experience can be integrated with, rather than dissociated from, other experiences in life”

31
Q

Conditions Essential to Development

of a Therapeutic Relationship

A
  • Rapport
  • Trust
  • Respect
  • Genuiness
  • Empathy
32
Q

Transference

A

occurs when the client unconsciously displaces (or “transfers”) to the nurse feelings formed toward a person from his or her past

  • Interferes with the therapeutic relationship.
33
Q

Countertransferance

A

refers to the nurse’s behavioral and emotional response to the client.

Psych Nursing (6 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions