"Nurse bait:" Strategies hospitalized patients use to entice nurses within the context of the nurse-patient relationship.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Mona M. Shattell, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Patients on medical-surgical and psychiatric inpatient units long for more and deeper connections with nurses. Patients' dependence on the nursing staff, as well as their perceived powerlessness, creates a situation where patients believe they have to actively find ways to seek needed nursing care. This paper will describe active strategies used by medical-surgical patients to entice nurses within the context of the nurse-patient relationship; strategies designed to mitigate vulnerability and increase interpersonal connection. Implications for nursing practice and for Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relations will be presented.
"Nurse bait:" Strategies hospitalized patients use to entice nurses within the context of the nurse-patient relationship.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 26(2), 205-223.
- Language: English
- Date: 2005
- Keywords
- Nurse-patient relationship