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Mental Health Nursing: Therapeutic communication and the nurse-patient relationship · Phases of the Nurse-Patient Relationship

How a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship is built, worked through and ended, following the phases first described by Hildegard Peplau.

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Mental Health Nursing · 23 questions

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1. Who first described the nurse-patient relationship as an interpersonal process unfolding in phases, in a landmark 1952 book?

  1. Florence Nightingale
  2. Virginia Henderson
  3. Hildegard Peplau
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Answer: Hildegard Peplau

Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing framed nursing itself as a therapeutic interpersonal process, laying the foundation of psychiatric nursing.

2. What most distinguishes a therapeutic relationship from a social one?

  1. It centers on the patient's needs and goals
  2. Both people share their problems equally
  3. It continues with no planned ending
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Answer: It centers on the patient's needs and goals

In a therapeutic relationship the nurse's own needs are met elsewhere; its purpose, focus and ending are all defined around the patient's growth.

3. Before meeting a new patient, a nurse reviews the chart and reflects on their own feelings about people who self-harm. Which phase is this?

  1. Orientation phase
  2. Working phase
  3. Pre-orientation phase
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Answer: Pre-orientation phase

In the pre-orientation phase the nurse gathers information and examines personal feelings, biases and fears that could affect care.

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