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Arnold, Elizabeth.

Interpersonal relationships : professional communication skills for nurses / Elizabeth Arnold, Kathleen Underman Boggs. - 4th edition. - St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders, c2003. - ix, 629 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS

PART I: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSE-CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS

Theoretical perspectives and contemporary issues
Professional guides to action in interpersonal relationships
Clinical judgement: applying critical thinking and ethical decision making
Self-concept in the nurse-client relationship

PART II: THE NURSE- CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
Structuring the relationship
Bridges and barriers in the therapeutic relationship
Role relationship patterns
The Grief experience: Life's losses and endings

PART III: THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION
Communication styles
Developing therapeutic communication skills in the nurse-client relationship
e.tc

PART IV: RESPONDING TO SPECIAL NEEDS
Communicating with clients experiencing communication deficits
Communicating with children
Communicating with older adults
e.tc

PART V: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Communicating with other health professionals
Documentation in the age of computers

ISBN: 0721693881 9780721693880

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nurse and patient.
Interpersonal communication.

Dewey Class. No.: WY 88 A725i 2003