Author Question: When talking with a client about discharge plans, the nurse is not sure what the client is saying ... (Read 177 times)

mspears3 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

When talking with a client about discharge plans, the nurse is not sure what the client is saying about the home situation. Which of these statements by the nurse would illustrate a therapeutic communication technique in this situation?

a. Tell me what you mean by that.
b. Do you mean that you have many stairs to climb?
c. Are you frightened about going home?
d. We can talk about how your family can help.

Question 2

Which of these concepts used in current nursing practice was introduced by Nightingale?

a. encouraging involvement of family and friends in a client's care
b. maintaining confidentiality
c. organizing a methodical system of nursing administration
d. organizing a system of differentiated nursing practice

stillxalice · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
Therapeutic communication is goal-directed and is centered on the client's needs or problems, not those of the nurse. The goals of therapeutic communication are to obtain or provide information, to develop trust, to show caring, and to explore feelings.

Answer to Question 2

B
Among Nightingale's major contributions to nursing as it is practiced today are using a systematic method of client assessment, individualizing care on the basis of client needs and preferences, advocating confidentiality in client care, seeing nurses as client advocates, using a holistic framework for nursing and nursing education, identifying the necessity of a liberal education as the foundation of nursing practice, and pointing out the importance of the environment to the healing process.