This concept was taken from module 9 "ethics and nursing ethics”, sub topic 1"nurse-patient relationship".
Nurse-client relationship can be defined as a cordial, meaningful, therapeutic and professional relationship that exist between the nurse and her client, sometimes including the relatives and significant others.
Our patients all come from different works of life with varying backgrounds. To a few, the hospital represents a standard of luxury not previously experienced. To some it involves a terrifying loss of privacy, to others it is normal, and to others it is a reduced standard but are ready to bear it simply because of their illness.
Due to the above reasons we need to ensure proper understanding and perception …show more content…
TRUST: trust is a very important component in the nurse-client relationship. It is vital to know that trust is reciprocal hence the nurse needs to make the client feel that she trust him and that the client can also trust her. Once trust is breached at any point in the relationship then the relationship becomes terminated.
RESPECT: there should be respect for individuality. We should treat the patient with respect and understand that they are humans. We should respect all our clients irrespective of their socio- economic class or their health problems and they are all treated the same way.
PROFESSIONAL INTIMACY: nurses have more professional intimacy with their clients than any of the other health personnel. The nurses spend more time with the clients and this makes them get more information about the client which is used in administering adequate care. This professional intimacy have to do with the services which the nurse renders to the client like bed bathing, vulva toileting, wound dressing, oral care, psychological reassurance, spiritual advice etc. All this helps the nurse to understand her client …show more content…
The study was carried out between some group if specialist pediatric oncology nurses (SPON) and the families of the cancer children whom they were caring for. The SPON became a link of hospital and home care for this cancer babies and it was argued that this relationship is characterized by befriending. Befriending as they termed it leads to diminution of formal professional client barrier and results in very close relationship between the SPON and their clients. The study showed that this relationship leads to increased demand of emotional labor to the