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  • Essay / Therapeutic Relationship in Nursing - 1870

    The therapeutic relationship is a bond between a health care expert and a client. It also refers to how the therapist and patient hope to integrate with each other and produce positive change in clients. Nursing theorist Imogene King states that the nurse-client relationship is a "learning experience where two people interact when faced with an immediate health problem, share, if possible, the resolution, and discover ways to adapt to the situation." situation ". (Crisp and Taylor, 2005). This relationship is recognized exclusively to meet the needs of patients and is therefore therapeutic in nature. Effective communication and therapeutic relationship between client and nurses is the spirit of high-quality nursing care. Therapeutic communications are classified into two types of communication interventions: authoritative interventions and facilitative interventions. Reliable intervention implies patient responsibility. In this case, the nurse offers the client new knowledge, makes suggestions and provides guidance. While it is a facilitative intervention, it promotes clients' autonomy and personal responsibility. In which a nurse encourages a client to solve problems and express emotions. As a nurse or anyone dealing with health care, one must use the best possible communication skills so that therapeutic goals can be achieved. The therapeutic relationship is essential because it is the only way to promote optimistic change in people. Some of the qualities of a therapeutic relationship include providing good therapeutic care, namely respect, empathy, openness, trust, authenticity, self-awareness and support. In order to have a good therapeutic relationship, communication must be active on both sides as it acts as a vehicle through...... middle of paper ... its own right. Nurses must have the ability to develop change strategies and action plans with patients. Nurses must help review their vision of the future by taking into account their social context and their relationships. Ultimately, nurses should have the skills to investigate with the client's vision for the future. REFERENCE1) Crisp, J. and Taylor, C. (2005). Potter and Perry's Fundamentals of Nursing (2nd ed.). Australia: Elsevier.2) Crisp, J. and Taylor, C. (2009). Fundamentals of Nursing (3rd ed.). Australia: Elsevier.3) Dianne, L Josephson. (2004). Infusion Therapy for Nurses (2nd ed.). United States of America: Delmar Leaning.4) Eunson.Baden. (2008). Communicating in the 21st century (2nd ed.). Australia: 42 McDougall Street.5) Parbury.S.Jane. (2009). Patient and person interpersonal skills in nursing, (4th ed.). Australia: Elsevier..