explore the nature of the nurse-patient relationship and discuss its relevance to the patient care experience. Through a wide range of research the essay will consider how the nurse-patient relationship can contribute positively towards the patient care experience and will conclude with a reflection on how the findings will inform personal and professional development. The nurse-patient relationship is founded on the need of care, assistance and guidance for the patient and therefore can be regarded
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The Nurse-Patient Relationship In this essay, I plan to explore the concepts of the “nurse-patient relationship” using the necessary literature to back up my findings. I have chosen to study this concept because I am interested in discovering what makes a successful, or indeed, an unsuccessful nurse-patient relationship, as I believe the relationship between nurse and patient to be an integral part of nursing. The main focus of my essay will be around the works of Hildegard Peplau, but I plan
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Nurse-patient relationship According Cutliffe and McKenna (2005), research, theoretical and educational literature on interpersonal relations between nurses and patients has proliferated since the 1960s. This has generated a range of divergent accounts of what the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) ought to be, how this should be achieved, and how the NPR is constituted in practice. I have chosen the concept of nurse-patient relationship because this relationship is viewed as the essence of nursing
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Nurse Patient Relationship ------------------------------------------------- The nurse patient relationship is a central to patient satisfaction. Nurses spend most of the time with patient. Therefore nurses attitude toward their work, co-workers and hospital influences patients’ opinion and experience about the hospital. It is imperative to have positive nurse patient relationship to establish rapport and achieve healing. Patients and families count on nurses to keep them informed, to connect
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The nurse demonstrates her unprofessional behavior and poor communication skills during the first patient interaction scenario when she speaks to the pregnant women. She asks about the patients insurance even before being concerned about if the possibility of active labor. She informs the patient that she needs the patient’s husband’s number so she can call him about her being in the hospital. The nurse should have asked if there was anyone the patient wanted contacted, and she
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Importance of Patient-Centered Care It has been a goal of many healthcare providers to achieve patient-centered care in their facilities. At the Cleveland Clinic, they have come up with a program that will help create better communication between the physician, nurse and patient. Rimmerman (2013) said that their hopes are to eliminate misunderstandings, create a better environment for the patient and their families to ask questions and to achieve a plan of care that will fit to the patient’s needs
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what should have been done? Identify any proposed solutions. When a nurse becomes overwhelmed, they may turn to narcotics like in this case. The nurse was putting the patient’s health at risk to help her get her drugs. She would chart the patient was given the drug but in turn she was giving them saline and was taking the drugs herself. It was a flexible nurse so she didn’t have certain rooms with specific patients. The pharmacist was the one who actually figured out there was an increasing
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Clearly, this patient has no idea how bad her illness really is. Not only does she have the doctor lying to her, but she also has two daughters who are in on it all too. Her primary nurse, must decide if she will go along with them as she was asked to do, or if she will go against them and possibly lose her job. We also must decide if lying to the patient is morally justified. After just going through a painful divorce, one could say that it is in the best interest of the patient to not know how
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assigned to a female patient with diagnose of third stage breast cancer. After taking her interview, I came to know that patient and even their family member didn’t know any thing about the patient prognosis and they were too worried to know about. For that reason, I went to doctor and inquired that whether doctor had told them about the patient prognosis or not. In response to my question, doctor got irritated and replied in a very rude manner. He said, “you want me to tell patient that when he would
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each patient. Nursing care should be implemented in flexible, thoughtful manner and should be carefully executed in unique situation with unique patients. Empirical Way of Knowing Empirical way of thinking is defined in article as a ‘factual, descriptive…exemplary, discursively formulated and publically verifiable which is ultimately aimed at developing abstract and theoretical explanation’ (Carper: 15). This way of thinking is executed using Evidence Based Practice. I have been a nurse for the
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