Type of therapeutic technique

pinkiepie_RN · Mar 29, 2010

I would pick therapeutic communication because that's the kind of relationship you build with your patient and it has a strict purpose. I think social communication refers to communication among friends and your patients (no offense) are not your friends.

ranjah · Mar 30, 2010

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!

pinkiepie_RN · Mar 30, 2010

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!

That sounds more social than therapeutic. This link highlights therapeutic and non-therapeutic communication ---> http://www.lscc.edu/nursing/nursingdocuments/Tech%27s%20Therap%27t%20Com%27n.pdf

I think based on the information given, it's social communication, although I've never heard of that as an official term. Like I said before, I think it means like communication that would be done in a social context with friends or family, etc. And plus, interpersonal and social are basically the same thing, so I'd exclude those responses anyway. That leaves you with collegial and therapeutic. Since nurse/patient is not collegial, that leaves you with therapeutic. Process of elimination. :)