Question

Please submit a therapeutic conversation that you have with someone. The Scenario will be you are the student nurse and you are interviewing someone that has pain. You will be writing down the conversation...what you say and what the patient answers. Describe any communication barriers you may have come across, during your conversation. Also, describe any therapeutic techniques that you used during the interview. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Answer 1

Answer :

Therapeutic conversation or therapeutic relationships are nurse and patient communication or nurse and patient relationship.

Scenario :

The nurse student interviewing the clients regarding pain :

She can go o, p, q, r, s, t, u antonym that means onset, provoking and palliating, quality, region or radiation, severity, treatment, understand how it impacts on you.

Student nurse asking regarding pain

Student nurse : when did it begin?

Patient : two days back.

Student nurse : how aften does it occur? ( duration of the symptoms)

Patient : half an our once.

Student nurse : what makes it worse?

Patient : excess work.

Student nurse : what makes it better?

Patient : rest

Student nurse : what does it feel like?

Patient : pricking pain

Student nurse : does it spread any where?

Patient : yes down wards from starting.

Student nurse : what is the severity and intensity of pain.

Patient : it is moderate pain.

The communication barrier may found that is physical disabilities, because hearing problem the patient is having.

So that patient is asking repeatedly what you asked repeate once again and say loudly like that.

So the deaf is one of the physical disability and communication barrier.

Therapeutic communication technique :

The nurse student used non verbal communication by facial expressions some times.

Because the client is having hearing problem, by expressions the client may able to understand what student is asking.

So the non verbal communication is one of the therapeutic communication technique.