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PART I: Conceptual Foundations of Interpersonal Relationships and Professional Communication S
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2. Professional Guides for Nursing Communicationst st st st
3. Clinical Judgment and Ethical Decision Making
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4. Clarity and Safety in Communication
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PART II: Essential Communication Skills
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5. Developing Therapeutic Communication Skills
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6. Variation in Communication Styles
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PART III: Therapeutic Interpersonal Relationship Skills
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9. Self-Concept in Professional Interpersonal Relationships
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11. Bridges and Barriers in Therapeutic Relationships
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12. Communicating with Families st st
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PART IV: Communicating to Foster Health Literacy and Health Promotion and Prevention of Diseas
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14. Communicating to Encourage Health Literacy and Health Promotion and Prevention of Disease
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PART V: Accommodating Clients with Special Communication Needs
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PART VI: Collaborative and Professional Communication
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22. Role Relationships and Interpersonal Communication
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Chapter 1: Theory Based Perspectives and Contemporary Dynamics MULTIPL
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1. When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists all of the following ch
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b. nursing was originally practiced informally by religious orders dedicated to care of the sick.
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c. nursing was later practiced in the home by female caregivers with no formal education.
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d. nursing has always been identifiable as a distinct occupation.
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re of the sick and later in the home by female caregivers with no formal education, nursing was not identifiab
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le as a distinct occupation until the 1854 Crimean war. There, Florence Nightingale‘s Notes on Nursing intro
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duced the world to the functional roles of professional nursing and the need for formal education.
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REF: p. 1 TOP: Step of the Nursing Process: All phases MSC: Client Needs: Psychosocial Integrity
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, 2. The nursing profession‘s first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate for high-
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quality care and used statistical data to document the need for handwashing in preventing infection, was
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quality care, Florence Nightingale‘s use of statistical data to document the need for handwashing in preventi
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ng infection marks her as the profession‘s first nurse researcher.
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REF: p. 1 TOP: Step of the Nursing Process: All phases MSC: Client Needs: Management
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oosing graduate studies to support differentiated practice roles and/or research opportunities. Nurses are prep
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ared to function as advanced practice nurse practitioners, administrators, and educators.
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4. Nursing‘s metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing profession from other disciplines and e
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mphasizes its unique functional characteristics. The four key concepts that form the foundation for all nursi
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