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INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Interpersonal Relationships
Professional Communication Skills for Nurses
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Fifth Edition

By
Elizabeth Arnold, PhD, APRN-PMH, BC, Associate Professor of Nursing, Retired, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Family Nurse Psychotherapist, Montgomery Village, MD
Kathleen Boggs, PhD, FNP-CS, Family Nurse Practitioner; Associate Professor Emeritus, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Description
2007 AJN Book of the Year!
With practical guidance for effective interactions with clients, colleagues, and families, Interpersonal Relationships: Professional Communication Skills for Nurses, 5th Edition, is the definitive source on communication skills for nurses. The book combines proven communication strategies and nursing principles with psychology and related theoretical frameworks. Plus, the text includes numerous experiential exercises to critically evaluate their communication skills as well as those of others.

Contents


Part I. Conceptual Foundations of Nurse-Client Relationships


1. Theoretical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues

2. Professional Guides to Action in Interpersonal Relationships

3. Clinical Judgment: Applying Critical Thinking and Ethical Decision Making

4. Self-Concept in the Nurse-Client Relationship



Part II. The Nurse-Client Relationship


5. Structuring the Relationship

6. Bridges and Barriers in the Therapeutic Relationship

7. Role Relationship Patterns

8. Life's Losses and Endings and the Nurse-Client Relationship



Part III. Therapeutic Communication


9. Communication Styles

10. Developing Therapeutic Communication Skills in the Nurse-Client Relationship

11. Intercultural Communication

12. Communicating in Groups

13. Communicating with Families

14. Resolving Conflict Between Nurse and Client

15. Health Promotion and Client Learning Needs

16. Health Teaching in the Nurse-Client Relationship



Part IV. Responding to Special Needs


17. Communicating with Clients Experiencing Communication Deficits

18. Communicating with Children

19. Communicating with Older Adults

20. Communicating with Clients in Stressful Situations

21. Communicating with Clients in Crisis



Part V. Professional Issues


22. Communicating with Other Health Professionals

23. Documentation in the Age of the Electronic Health Record?

NEW!


24. Communicating in the Age of eHealth Technology?

NEW!


Glossary

Index

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 576 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-2913-7
ISBN-10: 1-4160-2913-3
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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