NSE 21A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Licensed Practical Nurse, Therapeutic Relationship
17 Oct 2015
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Guiding principles: there are 6 guiding principles that you apply to nursing in. In ontario, nursing is one profession with two categories: registered nurse (rn) and registered. Overview: therapeutic nurse-client relationship is the core of nursing. Nurses establish and maintain this relationship by using nursing knowledge and skills, as well as applying caring attitudes and behaviours: the five key components of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship are, professional intimacy. Is inherent in the type of care and services that nurses provide may be in physical activities (bathing) that nurses perform for and with clients that create this closeness. May involve psychological, spiritual and social elements that are identified in the plan of care: access to the client"s personal information also contributes to professional intimacy, power power. The nurse-client relationship is one of unequal. The nurse has more power than the client does.
