Nursing 1170A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter week 5: Abstinence, Professional Boundaries, Active Listening
9 Dec 2016
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Therapeutic relationship a professional, interpersonal alliance in which the nurse and client join together for a defined period to achieve health-related treatment goals. Client any individual, family, group or community with an identified health care need requiring nursing intervention. Guiding principles: presence, purpose, mutuality, authenticity, empathy, active listening, confidentiality, respect/dignity. Someone being aware of and respecting the other in building a shared realty forms the foundation for therapeutic conversations. It is marked by respect, mutuality and reciprocity. Helper takes responsibility for the conduct of relationship and for maintaining boundaries. Relationship has a specific purpose and health related goal. Both parties have equal responsibility to conduct relationship. Relationships may or may not have a purpose or goal. They can last a lifetime or terminate without goal achievement. People choose who they want to be with. Understanding doe not need o be put into words. A therapeutic relationship is either client centered or patient centers.
