Kindly have a

look at how the

nurse developed a
therapeutic
relationship with
the patient.

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 The perioperative nurse What do you
think the nurse
has accomplished a great did to establish
a therapeutic
deal toward creating a relationship?

solid nurse-patient
relationship

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 Good

The nurse:
communication
skills make the
difference between
average and
excellent nursing
care

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 Therapeutic The purpose of

relationship between the therapeutic

relationship is to
support the patient,
patient and the nurse promote healing, and
to support or

form the
enhance functioning.

FOUNDATIONS OF
NURSING CARE

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 RESPECT: EMPATHY
POSITIVE
REGARD Components of
Therapeutic
Relationship

CONFIDENTIALITY
GENUINENESS
TRUST

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each component of the
therapeutic relationship,
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 RESPECT:
POSITIVE
REGARD

The ability to
accept another’s
person beliefs
despite your own
personal feelings.

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 GENUINENESS

Ability to be oneself
within the context of a
professional role.

Willingness to be open
and genuine and not
hide behind a
professional facade

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 TRUST

The establishment of
trust is the foundation
of all interpersonal
relationships and is
vitally important to the
development of the
therapeutic
relationship

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 Nurse-patient confidentiality can be
CONFIDENTIALITY branched only for the following reasons:

Nurses have moral and

legal obligations not to
share patient
information with
others, except in
specific circumstances

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 EMPATHY

Allows nurses the

Is educated ability to actually see
compassion or the the world from the
intellectual patient’s point of view
understanding of the without experiencing
emotional state of the emotional content
another person

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 Phases of 5. Termination
1. Orientation Nurse - Patient
Therapeutic
Relationship

4. Resolution
2. Identification
3. Exploitation

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1. Orientation
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