ranjah

Okay this is how weird the question is and why I'm not certain on what they're asking for: Determine the type of communication occurring in the following vignette: Nurse: Good morning, Mrs. Jones. How did you sleep last night? Client: I had a lousy night. The person in the room next door kept yelling inhis sleep. Nurse: I know what you mean; sometimes my husband does that too. I'm luckier than you because I can shake him and get the shouting to stop. I guess you probably wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that with another client. Client: No, beside that, who wants to walk around here at night? Still, I think I would like to meet him. He looked pretty handsome when i saw the nurse taking him around the unit after he was admitted yesterday. This interaction should be assessed as: a. Therapeutic b. Collegial c. Social d. Intrapersonal So you see how weird this is for me? It can be considered therapeutic with the nurse displaying empathy but there's also this weird undertone of them socializing.... And this is a psych class with therapeutic communication in mind. Anyway, I can't find literature on "social communication" in a nursing perspective!

I am by no means asking for homework answers. I've been scowering my text and the internet because of this one homework question and I need help. I don't need the answer, I just need some things clarified. The question is asking which type of communication is being used by the nurse and patient. I'm not posting the question because that's not my point here. a. therapeutic b. collegial c. social d. intrapersonal I just need to know what "social communication" is. I have no clue and I've been searching for a while now. I know it's not intrapersonal since it's between two people. It's not collegial since it's between a nurse and a patient, not between peers. The answer is possibly therapeutic but I cannot find any literature on "social communication" in relation to nursing. Is it a real type of communication or is it one of those fake answers to throw me off? So yeah, I don't want you to do my homework. I just need help because I have no idea what social communication (with psych nursing in mind) is supposed to be....