Patient & person
Subtitle: interpersonal skills in nursing
By: Jane Stein-Parbury
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier; Churchill Livingstone Elsevier
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780729538916; 9780729578912
Subjects: Nurse and patient; Interpersonal relations; Nurse-Patient Relations; Interpersonal Relations; Communication
Other titles: Patient and person
Description: 'Patient and Person' provides a practical guide to establishing and building relationships in nursing practice. It addresses the theoretical, practical and personal dimensions of relating to patients and provides guidelines for determining when and how to act.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why interpersonal skills?; title: The patient-nurse relationship; title: Nurse as therapeutic agent; title: Considering culture; title: Encouraging interaction: listening; title: Building meaning: undestanding; title: Collecting information: exploring; title: Intervening: comforting, supporting and enabling; title: Transitions through health and illness; title: Challenging interpersonal encounters with patients; title: Buidling a supportive workplace.