Nursing Action Plan for Improving Therapeutic and Professional Relationships

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Action Plan: Nursing
Action plan 1 for improvement of “Engages in the therapeutic and professional
relationships”
Goal: To identify and engage in therapeutic and professional relationships within the healthcare
unit.
Specific
It will aid in giving expert and medical service
to the patients, thereby keeping the association
with the individuals strictly professional.
Measurable
Therapeutic professional relation with the
individuals and family members of patients
will help in building association based on
mutual trust, truth, faith, and hope,
subsequently promoting harmony and healing.
Feedback of 50 patients will be noted to
understand success.
Achievable
Effective non-verbal communication is crucial
in establishing the relation of trust among the
patients. The ability to attend the patients with
full care and dedication will help to achieve the
goal.
Relevant Proper medical care and lending an ear to the
problem of the patients will help in healing the
individual and giving better treatment. Time
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constraint may hinder the process.
Time-Bound
The goal is planned to be achieved within 6
months.
Objective
 All the patients will get satisfying medical and professional attention from the medical
team in the healthcare unit.
Strategies
 Relation of collegial generosity in terms of respect and mutual trust should be built in the
profession among the patients and the nurses and medical practitioners.
 Effective verbal and non-verbal communication is practiced in healthcare (Kourkouta &
Papathanasiou, 2014).
 The interpersonal and therapeutic relationships are primary constructs of medical industry
as it facilitates in building positive clinician to patient interaction and experience. The
positive relationship enriches the experience and satisfaction level of the clients. Thereby,
as augmenting relation between patient and clinician is imperative. Subsequently, the
nurses should maintain good rapport with the patients.
 The nurses should encourage therapeutic listening, understand the unmet requirements of
the patient, respond quickly to the patient’s emotions and be careful about psychological
state of mind (Kornhaber, Walsh, Duff & Walker, 2016).
 Therapeutic listening is a crucial strategy to enhance nursing practices as it augments the
healing process. The scholars have identified it as a recurring event and it is encouraged
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by good communication skill of the clinicians (Kornhaber wt al., 2016).
 Empathy is another key construct of healing patients and therapeutic agent. However, the
doctors seldom are empathetic towards the need of the patient, which creates negative
environment. Therefore, the clinicians should promote empathy towards their patients.
 Patients should be meticulously attended for gaining their trust.
 Best therapeutic practices should be implemented to give appropriate treatment to the
patients (Felton & Royal, 2015).
 It should be ensured that the complete information about the patient is available to the
nurses attending them, in order to identify accurate health problem and give relevant
treatment to the individual.
Activities
 Give recognition to the individuals that the persons are experts in their personal life.
 Give value to their identification of health issues and problems faced by the individuals.
 Effectively communicates with the patients and offers due respect without offending their
religion, culture, rights, beliefs, opinions, and dignity.
 The health care practitioners give support and channelize the individuals to the
appropriate resources to enhance their health and minimize issues.
 The nurses build distinct yet close professional relationships with the patients or their
family that is quite different from personal association (Panunto & Guirardello, 2013).
 Close and professional liaison helps in augmenting mutual trust for each other.
 The health care people advocate on behalf of the patients or their families to protect their
legal capacity and personal autonomy.
 The individuals participate to implement collaborative practices.
 It actively works to nurture the culture of safety and continuous learning (Seidl &
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