NSG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eye Contact
4 Apr 2018
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Effective noticing therapeutic nurse-client relationships and interviewing. Trust: for patients to open up, share health info, and describe situations. Respect: to make patients feel valuable and that they matter. Power: nurses possess more professional knowledge and skills; and are responsible for the care of patients. Difference between a social or personal relationship and a therapeutic one. Therapeutic: is mostly about the patient and to promote health. Tell patients that the information they share will be kept confidential but will be reported to other health care workers. Patients have to right to choose who they want you to share their information about. Purpose: to obtain health history, to identify health needs and risk factors, to determine changes and patterns of health, to help clients understand their condition. S sitting at angle to the client. Open-ended qs: elicit more than a yes or no answers. Using what and why questions might yield personal opinions and a sense of feeling judged by nurse.
