{"id":170,"date":"2015-04-26T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2023-10-19T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:58:08","slug":"1-17-therapeutic-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/?page_id=170","title":{"rendered":"1.17 Therapeutic Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 5px solid #d20000; height:; background-color:#ffffff;    '>\r\n                             <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHWDjGB4zos?si=BZi5t4xHAvsk_xP4&amp;start=33\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<p>Practicing therapeutic communication is in many ways simply developing a good bedside manner.<\/p>\n<p>When your patient asks you a question or discusses something with you, be careful to respond in a helpful and caring manner. By encouraging the patient to speak up, you are probably helping him\/her to decrease his level of stress and thereby his recovery time.<\/p>\n<p>Study the techniques discussed in paragraphs 1-15 and 1-16. Become familiar enough with them so that they become a natural part of your conversations.<\/p>\n<p>When your patient communicates with you, you must be able to correctly observe, evaluate, and respond. Your knowledge, understanding, and skill in human relations will enable you to do so.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Communication640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-191\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Communication640-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Sit down when speaking to the patient. Although you probably have dozens of things you need to be doing at that moment, try to relax.\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Communication640-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Communication640.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sit down when speaking to the patient. Although you probably have dozens of things you need to be doing at that moment, try to relax.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practicing therapeutic communication is in many ways simply developing a good bedside manner. When your patient asks you a question or discusses something with you, be careful to respond in a helpful and caring manner. By encouraging the patient to speak up, you are probably helping him\/her to decrease his level of stress and thereby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/?page_id=170\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1.17 Therapeutic Communication<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/953"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/nursing_fundamentals_1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}