Description |
xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Why interpersonal skills? -- The patient-nurse relationship -- Self-awareness -- Encouraging interaction: listening -- Building meaning: understanding -- Collecting information: exploring -- Comforting, supporting and enabling -- Health, illness and crisis -- Considering culture and age -- Improving colleague interaction |
Summary |
"This fully revised edition of the best-selling communication text, Patient and Person, provides an effective and practical guide to establishing and building effective relationships in nursing practice. To illustrate the importance of promoting interpersonal skill development, Jane Stein-Parbury has systematically addressed the theoretical, practical and personal dimensions of relating to patients, and provides guidelines for determining when and how to act, Patient and Person encourages meaningful nursing practice by focusing on patients as individuals."--BOOK JACKET |
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This thoroughly revised edition provides an effective and practical guide to establishing and building effective relationships in nursing practice. The theoretical and therapeutic aspects of the patient- nurse relationship are examined, as are the socio-cultural aspect of health care. Author from Uni of Technology, Sydney, NSW |
Notes |
Previous ed.: Marrickville, N.S.W. : Harcourt Australia, 2000 |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Communication in nursing.
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Nurse and patient.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Communication.
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Nurse-Patient Relations.
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Communication.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Nurse-Patient Relations.
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Genre/Form |
Nurses Instruction.
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Author |
Stein-Parbury, Jane.
Patient and person : developing interpersonal skills in nursing
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LC no. |
00002671 |
ISBN |
0729537404 |
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