Fundalmental Nursing Skills and Concepts: Chapter 7- The Nurse-Client Relationship Vocabulary
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sophearvy_phe on August 20, 2009
Subjects:
Nursing, NURSING FUNDAMENTALS, clients
Description:
Fundalmental Nursing Skills and Concepts: Chapter 7-The Nurse-Clients Relationship Vocabulary
Classes:
SWGTC ASN 2011-2012, nursing group, Hennepin Technical College Study Group
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Affective Touch | Touching that demonstrates concern or affection (personal contact used to demonstrate concern, caring, support) |
| Caregiver | One who performs health-related activities that a sick person cannot perform independently |
| Collaborator | One who works with others to achieve a common goal |
| Communication | Exchange of information |
| Delegator | One who assigns a task to someone |
| Educator | One who provides information |
| Empathy | Intuitive awareness of what the client is experiencing (a sympathetic understanding of or identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of someone or something else) |
| Intimate Space | Distance within 6 inches of a person, the distance at which people feel comfortable communicating with family members and close friends) |
| Introductory Phase | Period of getting acquainted |
| Kinesics | Body Language |
| Nonverbal Communication | Exchange of information without using words |
| Paralanguage | Vocal sounds that are not actually words |
| Personal Space | Distance of 6 inches to 4 feet |
| Proxemics | Relation of space to communication |
| Public Space | Distance of 12 or more feet |
| Relationship | Association between two people |
| Silence | Intentionally withholding verbal comments |
| Social Space | Distance of 4 to 12 feet |
| Task-Oriented Touch | Personal contact that is required when performing nursing procedures |
| Terminating Phase | Ending of a nurse-client relationship when there mutual agreement that the clients immediate health problems have improved |
| Therapeutic Verbal Communication | Using words and gestures to accomplish a particular objective |
| Touch | Tactile stimulus produced by making personal contact with another person or an object |
| Verbal Communication | Communication that uses words |
| Working Phase | Period during which the nurse and client plan the clients care and put the plan into action |
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