Relationship In Nursing

Therapeutic relationship in nursing

Emotional Intelligence and Reflective Practice are crucial components of building a good therapeutic relationship in nursing. Emotional intelligence is the capability to deal with one’s own and others emotions. It is a skill to genuinely rationale with emotions and to use those emotions to enhance thought. Reflective practice is one explores an experience that they have had. “A therapeutic nurse- patient relationship is defined as a helping association that is based on common trust and respect, the development of faith and hope, being sensitive to self and others, and assisting with the approval of your patients’ physical, affecting, and spiritual needs through your facts and ability.” (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2010)

To begin with, self- awareness is especially important to an individual health consumer. Conscious knowledge of one’s own desires, motives, feeling and character is termed as self- awareness. Self-awareness allows a client to explicitly explore the fundamental beliefs and motive that determine their outer behaviour. Open examination of one’s own mind can make the situation less threatening for the patient and support behaviours that expands the client’s understanding of self. Self- awareness is significant because when one has a better perceptive of who they in fact are and with that familiarity clients are empowered to make changes and to build on their areas of strength as well as identify areas where they would like to make improvements. Increasing a client’s self- awareness can be achieve by building a unquestioning relationship by with respect to the client’s thoughts and feelings, helping the health consumer to clarify communications with others and by being empatheti...

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