Chapter 7: Relationship Development Flashcards
attitude
a frame of reference around which an individual organizes knowledge about his or her world.
belief
An idea that one holds to be true. Only when the belief is acted on does it become a value.
7 Nurse subroles
The Stranger The Resource Person The Teacher The Leader The Surrogate The Technical Expert The Counselor
The Stranger
A nurse is at first a stranger to the client. The client is also a stranger to the nurse.
The Resource Person
The nurse provides information related to the client’s health care.
The Teacher
The nurse identifies learning needs and provides information required by the client or family to improve the health situation.
The Leader
Democratic leadership in nursing situations implies that the patient will be permitted to be an active participant in designing nursing plans for him.
Autocratic leadership promotes overvaluation of the nurse and clients’ substitution of the nurse’s goals for their own.
Laissez-faire leaders convey a lack of personal interest in the client.
The Surrogate
For the client, the nurse fulfills basic needs, which is associated with mothering.
The Technical Expert
The nurse possesses the clinical skills necessary to perform the interventions that are in the client’s best interest.
The Counselor
The nurse uses “interpersonal techniques” to help clients learn to adapt to difficulties or changes in life experiences.
nurse therapist
having graduate preparation in psychiatric/mental health nursing
values
abstract standards, positive or negative, that represent an individual’s ideal mode of conduct and ideal goals.
therapeutic use of self
the ability to use one’s personality consciously and in full awareness in an attempt to establish relatedness and to structure nursing intervention
value system
Established very early in life by the primary caregivers. It is culturally oriented; it may change; and it consists of beliefs, attitudes, and values.
Rational beliefs
Ideas for which objective evidence exists to substantiate their truth.
Irrational beliefs
Ideas held as true despite the existence of objective contradictory evidence. Delusions can be a form of irrational beliefs.
Faith “blind beliefs”
An ideal that an individual holds as true for which no objective evidence exists.
Stereotype
A socially shared belief that describes a concept in an oversimplified or undifferentiated matter.
The Open or Public Self
aspects of the self about which both the individual and others are aware.
The Unknowing Self
the part of the self that is known to others but remains hidden from the awareness of the individual.
The Private Self
the part of the self that is known to the individual, but which the individual deliberately and consciously conceals from others.
The Unknown Self
the part of the self that is unknown to both the individual and to others.
Rapport
implies special feelings on the part of both the client and the nurse based on acceptance, warmth, friendliness, common interest, a sense of trust, and a non- judgmental attitude
Trust
feel confidence in that person’s presence, reliability, integrity, veracity, and sincere desire to provide assistance when requested
