Therapeutic Communication: Interaction Between Nurse And Patients

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Introduction Therapeutic communication is the interaction between a nurse and patient, which focuses on the physical, sociological and psychological state of the patient. The nurse line of duty is expected to have multiple of interactions with patients and to be unreserved to them. There are several of ways to communicate effectively to improve the relationship between the nurse and patient. With this, nurses are able to comfort the client and their family members when disclosing information severity of the illness or injury. Allowing them to know what is going happening, rather than keeping them uninformed causing the families to assume and constantly guessing it to be much worst than it originally is. Creating tension among each other, making …show more content…

Second is intrapersonal is when one is thinking within his own thoughts, next is mass that utilizes the media for public communication; one of its uses can be to spread knowledge about a current spreading infection and how to inhibit the spread. Organizational is the forth where there is a hierarchical levels of staff for example Dean of the hospital, hospital administrators, specialist surgeons, normal specialist, silent doctors, and nurses. Lastly is interpersonal which requires a group of people more than 2 like a nurse, patient and doctor. Both patient and nurse benefits from having an interpersonal relationship, the patients are able to receive accurate diagnosis due to that they are cooperative to disclose information about their illness or what they are experiencing. So that the nurse will be able to give the right treatment, from this the patient will understand and commit to following instructions. Nurses would be able to improve the quality of care, have more efficient diagnosis and treatment, as well as save time because of effective communication (Vibhor Agarwal, …show more content…

Include them in your discussions, find a way to work together, and ask them frequently or express that you would like to hear their view on the matter. That way the emotional growth between the nurse-client relationship and psychological understanding of each other’s way of thought or behavior can lead to more efficient and effective care provided for the patient (Vinodkumar Patil,