N1130 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
Compassion
The ability to convey in speech and body language the hope and intent to relieve the
suffering of another
Presence
- To have a person-to-person encounter that conveys closeness and sense of caring.
- To be fully present in body, mind, and spirit.
Caring
An intentional human interaction characterized by commitment and a sufficient level of
knowledge and skill to allow the nurse to support the basic integrity of the person being
cared for
Empathy
The ability to be sensitive to and communicate understanding of the client's feelings
"Truly knowing another person within a trusting and mutually respectful relationship"
Describe the phases of helping/therapeutic relationship (4)
1. Pre-interaction (nurse develops appropriate physical and interpersonal environment
for optimal relationship)
2. Orientation (defines purpose, roles, rules of process, and framework for assessing
client's needs)
, 3. Working (problem-solving phase of therapeutic relationship)
4. Termination (when essential work of active intervention phase is finished)
Differentiate between social interactions and therapeutic relationships
- Not planned, no goal, and can last a life time.
- To prevent abuse of power
Concepts of care:
Swanson (4)
KNOW-BE-DO'S!
1. Knowing: striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other
2. Being with: being emotionally present to the other
3. Enabling: Facilitating the other's passage through life transitions (providing alternative
routes)
4. Maintaining belief: sustaining faith in the other's capacity to get through an event or
transition and face a future with meaning
Concepts of care:
Watson
- A conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness
- Places care before cure
- Transpersonal caring looks for deeper sources of inner healing to protect, enhance,
and preserve a person's dignity, humanity, wholeness, and inner harmony (spirituality)
- Transformative model: both the nurses and client are affect by this relationship, good
or bad
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
Compassion
The ability to convey in speech and body language the hope and intent to relieve the
suffering of another
Presence
- To have a person-to-person encounter that conveys closeness and sense of caring.
- To be fully present in body, mind, and spirit.
Caring
An intentional human interaction characterized by commitment and a sufficient level of
knowledge and skill to allow the nurse to support the basic integrity of the person being
cared for
Empathy
The ability to be sensitive to and communicate understanding of the client's feelings
"Truly knowing another person within a trusting and mutually respectful relationship"
Describe the phases of helping/therapeutic relationship (4)
1. Pre-interaction (nurse develops appropriate physical and interpersonal environment
for optimal relationship)
2. Orientation (defines purpose, roles, rules of process, and framework for assessing
client's needs)
, 3. Working (problem-solving phase of therapeutic relationship)
4. Termination (when essential work of active intervention phase is finished)
Differentiate between social interactions and therapeutic relationships
- Not planned, no goal, and can last a life time.
- To prevent abuse of power
Concepts of care:
Swanson (4)
KNOW-BE-DO'S!
1. Knowing: striving to understand an event as it has meaning in the life of the other
2. Being with: being emotionally present to the other
3. Enabling: Facilitating the other's passage through life transitions (providing alternative
routes)
4. Maintaining belief: sustaining faith in the other's capacity to get through an event or
transition and face a future with meaning
Concepts of care:
Watson
- A conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness
- Places care before cure
- Transpersonal caring looks for deeper sources of inner healing to protect, enhance,
and preserve a person's dignity, humanity, wholeness, and inner harmony (spirituality)
- Transformative model: both the nurses and client are affect by this relationship, good
or bad
