Essay On Therapeutic Relationship

Therapeutic relationship between patients and are formed in the majority of situation (Romos, 1992; Morse, 1992). Morse(1991) consider this level as mutual while Romas (1992) to it as unilateral because the nurse maintain most of the control. This type of relation is usually for little times or average duration, where the patient facing a situation that is perceived by the patient as neither life threatening nor serious. This is a situation when a person need to be interacted with a nurse whom he or she can express all their feeling and situation that can be very helpful in diagnosing or treating the diseases or sickness with limited time. Although nurse’s perspective is primarily that the patient is a patient, there is also recognition and understanding of patient as a person. However developing a therapeutic relationship with a health consumers requires intelligence and reflective practice are the most major and important components of buildings a therapeutic relationship in nursing. Therefore this essay intends to discuss on the self- awareness and why it is very important to an individual health consumer, the challenges of difficulties that is faced by the nurses when developing a therapeutic nurse-client relationship with consumers and what are the basic strategies that can be used by nurses to strengthen this important professional relationship. Also it will elaborate more on the interpersonal skills and stagiest that the nurses can develop which while create a healthy therapeutic relationship with the consumer

To commence with, self awareness in nursing simply states caring for patients not only by the use of knowledge and procedural but also what nurses as well as individual think and feel, believe and value and one ca...

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...s for nurses to create a therapeutic relation amongst the different genders. Nurses also use interpersonal skills and reflective tools which enhances the healthy relations with the patients.

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