What is the patient's-nurse relationship?

Answer 1

The patient nurse relationship is unique because it's based on therapeutic communication. While you're talking to the client you're gathering information about their life, and health and you have to direct information for their care.

There's three phases to the patient-nurse relationship: the orientation, working and termination phase.

The orientation phase is to become acquainted to the patient and gain their trust.

The working phase is where the nurse actually is able to gather information and objective data (such as blood pressure, temperature).

The termination phase is where the patient is being released from the hospital or is leaving the clinical setting and you provide instructions for any care they need at home such as instructions for their medications what side effects to look out for and when to come back to the hospital or seek medical care.