NURS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nursing Process, Shared Experience, Personal Boundaries
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Chapter 2: the client nurse relationship: a helping relationship. Interdependency and reciprocity all 3 dimensions below: mutual learning experience and a corrective emotional experience for the patient based on the underlying humanity of nurse and patient, with mutual respect and acceptance of ethnocultural differences. Myers mental process variations: sensing: attuned to immediate experiences, literal facts, concrete realitites. Intuitive: imaginations fill minds with ideas and explanations that do not always depend on the senses for verification. Important for nurses to understand their preferred way of perceiving and to learn which process client prefers. Judging: process of making decisions about information collected through perception. Myers judging variations: thinking: people make decisions based on critical analysis of facts, valuing fairness. Logical, orderly, analytical decision making: feeling: people make decisions by analyzing how they will affect people, valuing harmony. Understanding client and nurse"s definition of health important in care plan, desired goals and outcomes.