NURS 3554 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Therapeutic Relationship, Psychiatric And Mental Health Nursing, Countertransference
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Article: peplau"s theory of interpersonal relations: need to be based on theory and use them for mental health. Interviewing and counseling: roles of the nurse: teacher, stranger, counselor and resource person, leader. Concepts of the nurse-patient relationship: basis of all psychiatric nursing treatment approaches, to establish that the nurse is, safe, confidential, reliable, consistent, relationship with clear boundaries. Goals and functions themselves: facilitate communication of distressing thoughts and feelings, assist patient with problem solving, help patient examine self-defeating behaviors and test alternatives, promote self-care and independence. Nurse"s behaviors/attitude: needs of patient identified and explored, clear boundaries established, problem-solving approaches taken, new coping skills developed, behavioral change encouraged, establish boundaries, the contract, physical space, personal space. 1: transference client unconsciously displaces onto individual in current life emotions and behaviors from childhood that originated in relationships with significant others, ex: client states, you remind me of my daughter/son. , transference intensified in relationships of authority.
