Nursing 1170A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Professional Boundaries, Therapeutic Relationship, Primary Nursing

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 1170A/B
• Professor: Nancy Platt

Document Summary

The core of nursing is the therapeutic nurse-client relationship. The nurse establishes and maintains this key relationship by using nursing knowledge and skills, as well as applying caring attitudes and behaviors. The relationship is based on trust, respect, empathy and professional intimacy, and requires appropriate use of the power inherent in the care provider"s role. Components of the nurse-client relationship: trust: it"s especially important that a nurse keep promises to a client. Abstaining from accepting individual gifts unless, in rare instances, the refusal will harm the nurse-client relationship. College and document the consultation before accepting the gif. ), the appropriateness of the timing(for example, on discharge versus. Valentine"s day), the potential for negative feelings on the part of other clients who may not be able to, or choose not to, give gifts, and the monetary value and appropriateness of the gift; Spending extra time with one client beyond his/her therapeutic needs;