Therapeutic Interaction in Nursing

Résumé du livre

Nurses communicate with a diverse client group in their everyday practice. Almost every day is fraught with a communication challenge from a patient, a family member, a colleague or a supervisor. Excellence in nursing care requires the ability to respond instantly to an emotion-charged moment with a therapeutic use of oneself by way of effective verbal and non-verbal communication. Therapeutic Interaction in Nursing provides the nurse or nursing student with concrete guidance in developing competencies in therapeutic communication in most problematic interactions. student as they encounter emotion-charged situations in their daily interaction with a variety of individuals, including working in multi-cultural settings, the patient with a psychiatric illness, the cognitively impaired patient, working with children and the critically ill or patient on a ventilator. therapeutically in these difficult situations, it also offers basic communication strategies and self-awareness exercises that assist the nurse or nursing student in the inner growth necessary to develop the effective outer behaviour. Applying fundamental concepts from Patient Practitioner Interaction, this title should be a useful resource for all in the nursing field.