Description
Scenario
While attending the National Holistic Nursing Conference, you participated in a workshop that introduced the therapeutic communication techniques listed below and discussed how to apply them in nursing practice.
- Setting an intention
- Centering
- Grounding
- Caring
- Healing
- Transcendent presence
- Intuition
When concluding the day’s activities, the presenters asked you to reflect on the professional experiences you have had with patients and to document that reflection in a journal entry.
Instructions
Write a journal entry that addresses the following:
- Using your own words, define therapeutic communication in relationship-centered, holistic nursing care.
- Describe at least 1 nurse-patient encounter where you applied effective therapeutic communication skills in your role as a nurse. Identify which of the therapeutic communication techniques you used and explain how you employed them.
- Describe at least 1 nurse-patient encounter where you could have communicated more effectively in your role as a nurse through the application of therapeutic communication techniques. Identify which of the therapeutic communication techniques you would use and explain how you would employ them
