PPN 102 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
◉ What is person-centered therapeutic relationships: Answer: - critical
to healing and satisfaction- categorized as "therapeutic alliance" and
linked to helping people achieve health goals
- begins with expectation people will take active participation in self-
managing health
- time limited
- regardless of time spent PPC should be meaningful
◉ Importance of person-centered therapeutic relationships: Answer: -
all relationships work better when participants active
- respect each other as equal partners
- strengths everything between nurse/client
- helps you resolve conflicts, reorganize your values and approaches to
life, and teaches you to interpret your thoughts and feelings
◉ What is relational practice: Answer: - Respectful and reflective
approach to inquire into patients lived experiences and health care needs
- It is a skilled action of respectful, compassionate and authenticated
interested inquiry into another's and ones experience
,◉ Importance of relational practice: Answer: - allows nurses to develop
a deeper understanding of patient suffering
◉ Components of the Model of Person Centeredness (PCC): Answer: -
PPC relationship considers each patient as person first and foremost with
distinctive personally held values, beliefs and life goals
- each relationship represents unique encounter (interaction that is
supportive for one person may no be considered supportive for another)
- nurses support self management skills + problem solving + help build
confidence in managing own health
- caring represents core foundational value
◉ Differences between social and therapeutic relationships: Answer: -
social relationships are established and maintained to meet mutual
need/friendship
- therapeutic relationships are established for professional health relation
purposes within a specific time setting
--> focus is alway patient health concern and are subject to ethical/legal
standards
◉ Relationship between social media and therapeutic relationships:
Answer: they both establish and maintain something and work to have a
good relationship with a person
,◉ Discuss Peplau's four phases of the therapeutic relationship: Answer:
1) Pre-interaction
2) Orientation
3) Working phase
4) Termination
◉ Pre-interaction Answer: - Reviewing a patient's chart or report;
affords greater interpersonal sensitivity prior to meeting; allows you to
reflect and review your professional goal and potential biases
◉ Orientation Answer: - Developing conversational ease with your
patient and the trust needed to deepen communication
◉ Working phase Answer: - Working together to help your patient
discover solutions that fit best and engage them in determining and
implementing activities to meet therapeutic goals
◉ Termination Answer: - Evaluating together the patients responses to
treatment and what goals have been achieved; reviewing instructions and
newly developed skills
◉ Identify the components of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship,
as described by the CNO Answer: - 5 components; professional
intimacy, power, empathy, respect and trust
, - 4 standard statements describe what a nurse is accountable for in the
TNCR:
Therapeutic communication, patient centered care, maintaining
boundaries, and protecting the client from abuse
◉ How nurses maintain professional boundaries within the therapeutic
nurse-client relationship: Answer: - through: self-reflection. establishing
and following a comprehensive plan of care. meeting personal needs
◉ Week 2 Answer:
◉ Describe the meaning of the "therapeutic use of self" Answer: -
Nurses uses of "self" in caring for "the whole person" through optimal
connection in a therapeutic relationship
- Caring; an international action that allows you to support your patients
basic integrity/requires commitment knowledge and skill
- Authenticity; being genuine and requires self-awareness
- Presence; requires giving the patient your full attention, requires active
listening, caring communication, sharing knowledge and skill with the
client
◉ difference between authenticity and presence and how they relate to
the nurse-client relationship Answer: Authenticity is being true to
yourself and who you are as a person regardless of what circumstance
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
◉ What is person-centered therapeutic relationships: Answer: - critical
to healing and satisfaction- categorized as "therapeutic alliance" and
linked to helping people achieve health goals
- begins with expectation people will take active participation in self-
managing health
- time limited
- regardless of time spent PPC should be meaningful
◉ Importance of person-centered therapeutic relationships: Answer: -
all relationships work better when participants active
- respect each other as equal partners
- strengths everything between nurse/client
- helps you resolve conflicts, reorganize your values and approaches to
life, and teaches you to interpret your thoughts and feelings
◉ What is relational practice: Answer: - Respectful and reflective
approach to inquire into patients lived experiences and health care needs
- It is a skilled action of respectful, compassionate and authenticated
interested inquiry into another's and ones experience
,◉ Importance of relational practice: Answer: - allows nurses to develop
a deeper understanding of patient suffering
◉ Components of the Model of Person Centeredness (PCC): Answer: -
PPC relationship considers each patient as person first and foremost with
distinctive personally held values, beliefs and life goals
- each relationship represents unique encounter (interaction that is
supportive for one person may no be considered supportive for another)
- nurses support self management skills + problem solving + help build
confidence in managing own health
- caring represents core foundational value
◉ Differences between social and therapeutic relationships: Answer: -
social relationships are established and maintained to meet mutual
need/friendship
- therapeutic relationships are established for professional health relation
purposes within a specific time setting
--> focus is alway patient health concern and are subject to ethical/legal
standards
◉ Relationship between social media and therapeutic relationships:
Answer: they both establish and maintain something and work to have a
good relationship with a person
,◉ Discuss Peplau's four phases of the therapeutic relationship: Answer:
1) Pre-interaction
2) Orientation
3) Working phase
4) Termination
◉ Pre-interaction Answer: - Reviewing a patient's chart or report;
affords greater interpersonal sensitivity prior to meeting; allows you to
reflect and review your professional goal and potential biases
◉ Orientation Answer: - Developing conversational ease with your
patient and the trust needed to deepen communication
◉ Working phase Answer: - Working together to help your patient
discover solutions that fit best and engage them in determining and
implementing activities to meet therapeutic goals
◉ Termination Answer: - Evaluating together the patients responses to
treatment and what goals have been achieved; reviewing instructions and
newly developed skills
◉ Identify the components of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship,
as described by the CNO Answer: - 5 components; professional
intimacy, power, empathy, respect and trust
, - 4 standard statements describe what a nurse is accountable for in the
TNCR:
Therapeutic communication, patient centered care, maintaining
boundaries, and protecting the client from abuse
◉ How nurses maintain professional boundaries within the therapeutic
nurse-client relationship: Answer: - through: self-reflection. establishing
and following a comprehensive plan of care. meeting personal needs
◉ Week 2 Answer:
◉ Describe the meaning of the "therapeutic use of self" Answer: -
Nurses uses of "self" in caring for "the whole person" through optimal
connection in a therapeutic relationship
- Caring; an international action that allows you to support your patients
basic integrity/requires commitment knowledge and skill
- Authenticity; being genuine and requires self-awareness
- Presence; requires giving the patient your full attention, requires active
listening, caring communication, sharing knowledge and skill with the
client
◉ difference between authenticity and presence and how they relate to
the nurse-client relationship Answer: Authenticity is being true to
yourself and who you are as a person regardless of what circumstance
