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the 5 areas of the nurse-patient helping relationship. - Answer Building trust
Demonstrating empathy
establishing boundaries
recognizing/respecting cultures and the boundaries
developing plans of care
Phases of the Helping Relationship - Answer Orientation, working, termination
Orientation Phase of the Helping Relationship - Answer when the nurse and client meet and
get to know one another.
Clarify the roles, expectations and boundaries
Observe, interview, assess the patient.
identify the needs and resources of the patient.
Working Phase of the Helping Relationship - Answer Develop a care plan and implement the
care plan.
collaborate with other providers if needed.
Enhance the raport or trust.
reflect on the emotional aspects if need be
Termination phase of the helping relationship - Answer Alert the patient that the relationship
is coming to a close.
Evaluate the outcomes achieved during the interaction.
conclude the relationship and transfer the care to another provider.
nursing process - Answer systematic method of thinking used by nurses to develop
individualized plans of care for patients.
defining the nursing process - Answer It is the framework within which nurses provide care to
patients in an organized and effective manner.
5 steps of the nursing process - Answer Assessment
, Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
These five steps—assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation—define
how professional nursing practice is conducted. what step was added by the ANA in 1991 -
Answer Outcome identification
Planning - Answer the nurse will identify the nursing diagnosis and prepare short term and
long term goals and also interventions to achieve those goals.
Dynamic - Answer reflecting changing changing conditions and needs of the outcomes.
Adjusting the plan after the outcome has been met is an example.
SOAP - Answer Subjective date
Objective data
Assessment
Plan
SOAPIE - Answer Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
Intervention
Evaluation
DAR - Answer D-data of subjective and objective combined
A- Action
R- Reaction
Evaluation (nursing process) - Answer Were the goals met ?
If not why ?
What adjustments need to be made ?
When setting goals remember they need to be