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Updated/Verified: Dec 30, 2020 | Amanda Bucceri Androus, RN, BSN
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Taking care of patients can be rewarding and fulfilling. However, sometimes it can also be emotionally and physically draining. Nurses work in patient care, but also in customer service. Maintaining a professional, courteous interpersonal relationship can be challenging. However, it can be critical in a patient's overall health and well-being.
Establishing a healthy nurse-patient relationship is vital. Nurses should greet the patient by name, make eye contact, and display confidence and professionalism. They should explain everything they will be doing and review the plan of care, making sure to involve them in decision making. Maintaining patient privacy is also essential. For some patients, touch is a way to demonstrate compassion and caring, but nurses should be aware of personal boundaries, as some patients prefer not to be touched. Remaining culturally sensitive as well is vital; providing handouts and patient information in a patient's primary language should be offered, as well as an interpreter if needed. These essential items help to develop trust and open the lines of communication.
So how does trust and communication help patients? When patients seek health care services or are hospitalized, many are not familiar with the process or what to expect. They may be apprehensive about what's to come, and not understand the medical jargon being spoken. For some, being spoken to using medical terminology is like a foreign language. Imagine being in a foreign country with people speaking to you and you have no idea what is being said. One can feel helpless and out of control, which may lead to anger or resistance to learning. If a healthy nurse-patient relationship is established from the get-go, the nurses can help the patient feel more at ease in their situation and encourage questions and participate in their care.
Nurses must get buy-in from patients when it comes to their care. As any nurse will tell you, it's nearly impossible to work with a non-compliant patient. Little to no improvement is made. Encouraging participation and educating patients is paramount. As stated earlier, establishing a healthy nurse-patient relationship is essential as the first step to open the lines of communication. Communication must be ongoing and involve patient education. For example, a non-compliant diabetic may believe that skipping meals helps to lower blood sugar. A nurse can take the opportunity to explain the importance of regular meals and snacks and explain what happens physiologically when meals are skipped in diabetic patients. The patient may just not know. Education can lead to better compliance and patient engagement and therefore improved patient care outcomes. In this example, improved blood sugar and A1C levels.
Nurses are on the front lines of health care. They become experts at establishing relationships with patients and can do so without a second thought. A healthy nurse-patient relationship built on trust and respect goes a long way in improving a patient's overall health.
Amanda Bucceri Androus is a Registered Nurse from Sacramento, California. She graduated from California State University, Sacramento in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in nursing. She began her career working night shifts on a pediatric/ med-surg unit for six years, later transferring to a telemetry unit where she worked for four more years. She currently works as a charge nurse in a busy outpatient primary care department. In her spare time she likes to read, travel, write, and spend time with her husband and two children.
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