8. Nurses’ roles in nurse-patient
relationship
Care giver
Counselor
Educator
Consultant
researcher
9.
10. Characteristics of good nurse-patient
relationship
Relationship is therapeutic
Exist until patent have fulfilled the health care
needs
Nurses’ work is to attain, maintain, and restore the
patients’ health
Patients are satisfied
Based on nurses’ competent care derived from skills
and knowledge
11. Characteristics of good nurse-patient
relationship Cont….
Provide holistic care
Patient/client is an active participant
Nurse uses patients’ knowledge, attitudes, values, and
thoughts to plan interventions
Reciprocal relationship influenced by professional and
personal characteristics of both parties
12.
13. Phases of the nurse-patient
relationship
Pre-interaction phase
Engagement phase
Active intervention phase
Termination phase
14. Pre-interaction phase
During this phase
• Nurse assess the environment in which the nurse
meet with patient
• Explain the professional goals and set priorities
• Both parties enter to the relationship with
expectations
• Patients develop uncertainties and hesitate to
comply with care and treatments
• Patient and nurse become oriented to overall
needs and expectations from the relationship
15. Engagement phase
Begin to develop the relationship
Nurse create a supportive environment
Establish a therapeutic contact with patients
Nurse introduce herself and the role functions
Trust and empathy are basic qualities here
Develop strong bond and feel less anxiety
Nurse plays the key role with expertise on illness
Nurse act as a coordinator
16. Engagement phase Cont….
Nurse observe and assess patients
Develop an impression and validate with
patients
Patients come to know their health issues
and feel fear, discomfort, or insecure feelings
and expect help
Nurses realize patients through their body
languages and help them
Therapeutic relationship is well established
17. Active intervention phase
The sense of mutuality is developed
between nurse and patient
Discuss conflicting situations deeply
Nurse and patient work with commitment
Nurse sort out problems and solve them
Collaboration and equal participation is
seen
Aware of the differences of rights, roles,
and responsibilities
18. Active intervention
phase Cont….
Nurse acknowledge the patients’ feelings, show the
genuine interest, and honesty
Nurse should be congruent
Nurse convince the patient of equal right to make
decision
Nobody will play dominant or submissive role
No violation of patients’ rights
Patients become independent decision makers
19. Termination phase
Start at the time of explaining
plans & goals
Patient should be informed of this
phase at the beginning
Otherwise patients develop strong
feeling of separation at this phase
Nurse work on education, health
advices preparing discharge plan
22. Barriers for effective professional
relationship
Role stress
Lack of inter
professional
understanding
Autonomy struggle
23. Role stress
The stress arises from role conflict or
role confusion
Role conflict is a situation that you
happen to play a role different from
what you expected to play
Role stress occur when you are
expected to do than what you can do
Result in stress and communication is
disturbed
25. Prevention of role stress
Experienced persons are responsible
Understand individual capabilities
Identify the individual weaknesses
Assign tasks accordingly
Kindly and duly respond against inexperienced behaviors or
faults
27. Autonomy struggles
What is autonomy?
autonomy is one’s ability to be one’s own person
directed by own desires, not imposed by others.
When this ability is threatened by others
autonomy struggles are arose.
People with higher level of autonomy
underestimate others bringing struggles.
28. Nurse – family relationship
Who is the nurse?
What is the family?
The group of individuals related by
blood, marriage or adopting, and
sharing the same space, resources
with a common human bond while
having common goals.