Week Two Flashcards
What is active listening?
A communication technique requiring the nurse to be present physically and emotionally by listening attentively to the client
What is authenticity?
The ability to be genuine and true to yourself in word, deed, and action
What is a close ended question?
Constrained question requiring a limited response
What is Confidentiality?
The assurance given to an individual that his or her personal and private information will not be shared indiscriminately and without consent
What is Interpersonal Communication?
The simultaneous exchange of information between two individuals, whereby they mutually influence one another with the goal of creating shared meaning and understanding
What is Intrapersonal Communication?
Occurs within each individual and comprises our thought and internal voice
What is Therapeutic Communication?
Intentional and purposeful interpersonal techniques used by healthcare workers, with the goal of enhancing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of a client
What are the 5 levels of communication?
1) Intrapersonal Communication (otherwise referred to as self talk)
2) Transpersonal Communication (Discussions about spirituality means to the client. How his/her spirituality helps them in difficult circumstances)
3) Interpersonal Communication
4) Small Group
Communication (occurring among 2-15 individuals)
5) Public Communication
What is a therapeutic relationship?
Constructive relationship between a nurse and a client, consisting of four progressive phases
What are the 4 phases of therapeutic communication?
1) Pre-Orientation Phase
2) Orientation Phase
3) Working Phase
4) Termination Phase
What is the Pre-Orientation Phase in therapeutic relationships?
- Before meeting a client, nurses attend a shift report and review the Kardex and client chart
- The data needs to be completely objective
- Examine your thoughts and feelings about working with the patient
What is the Orientation Phase in therapeutic relationships?
Self-knowledge on the part of the nurse is one of the greatest influences when communicating within the orientation phase
During this brief phase, trust is established, and rapport begins to develop between the client and the nurse.
Keeping this in mind, the nurse employs specific communication skills to initiate a relationship with the client
nurses introduce themselves and begin to obtain essential information about clients as individuals with unique needs, values, beliefs, and priorities
What is the working phase of a therapeutic relationship?
- The nurse acknowledges that collaboration is the key to client success
- When engaged in the third phase of the therapeutic relationship, the nurse uses effective communication strategies such as silence, touch, open-ended questions, paraphrasing, shared observation, self-disclosure, and listening
- During the working phase, clients begin to accept nurses as health educators, counselors, and care providers.
- Nurses use therapeutic communication techniques to facilitate clients’ awareness of their thoughts and feelings and mutually develop goals and an individualized plan of care.
What is the termination phase of a therapeutic relationship?
Terminating the nurse-client relationship may occur at the end of each shift, upon client transfer to another unit ot facility, upon discharge, or end of shift, nurses summarize for the client the client’s care requirements, care plan, and goals met or unmet
Effective communication and active involvement of the client during the termination phase enhances patient knowledge and health outcomes, whereas nurses feel empowered and experience an increase in job satisfaction
What are the 3 models of Patient Centred Communication?
1) Linear
2) Transactional
3) Therapeutic
What is the linear model in Patient Centred communication?
Traditional form of communication only focuses on sending and receiving information
When is the best situation to use the linear model? (Patient Centred Communication)
Emergency Situations
What are the 5 components of the linear model?
1) Sender
2) Message
3) Receiver
4) Channel of Communication
5) Context