Therapeutic Professional Relationships

Running head: THERAPEUTIC PROFESSIONAL RELATIONHSIPS
Therapeutic Professional Relationships
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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................2
Case background....................................................................................................................2
Gibb’s reflection cycle...........................................................................................................3
Description.................................................................................................................................3
Feelings......................................................................................................................................4
Evaluation..................................................................................................................................4
Analysis......................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
Action plan.................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..............................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The current assignment focuses upon the aspect of therapeutic communication in
professional relationships. The therapeutic communication approaches belongs to the
standard 2 of the Nursing and Midwifery board of Australia (NMBA). It consists of a number
of sub points such as establishment of therapeutic relationship in a manner which helps to
differentiate between personal and professional boundaries (nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au,
2018). As per the standard 2 of NMBA, one should communicate in a manner which respects
the dignity, value and culture of a person (Levett-Jones, Gersbach, Arthur & Roche, 2011).
The standard also aims at providing direct support to people to help them with their decision
making process. The implementation of the standard helps in respecting the legal capacity for
a person (Clarke, Ells, Thombs & Clarke, 2017). It helps in fostering a culture of safety and
establishes a person centred care approach. The therapeutic communication also provides one
with the responsibility of reporting notifiable conduct of health professionals and health
workers (Benbenishty & Hannink, 2017).
Case background
In the current study, the aspects of therapeutic communication approaches have been
studied which forms and important component of nursing support and care. In the video, a
conversation between a nurse and a patient has been highlighted. The patient had been
admitted to the ward following which the nurse was sent to the patient to monitor or check
for the vital signs of the patient. Form the video, it was seen that the nurse adopted a very
friendly and cooperative communication approach with the patient. The communication
went from professional to personal such as the point, where the patient enquired the nurse
regarding some of the details such as the time for which the nurse had been working in
the hospital. The patient seemed to be quite easy and free in his communication approaches

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with the nurse which depicted the signs of a healthy and positive therapeutic relationship
(Duarte, J., Pinto-Gouveia, J., & Cruz, 2016).
Therefore, the benefits of the application of therapeutic communication approaches
within a professional setup have been evaluated through the assignment with the help of the
Gibb’s reflection cycle. The use of models such as the Gibb’s reflection cycle helps one to
focus upon professional practice standards.
Gibb’s reflection cycle
The Gibb’s reflective cycle could be divided into a number of basic attributes such as-
description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, and conclusion and action plan. Each of the steps
could be related to the actual clinical scenario to understand the strengths and weaknesses of
professional standards of practice. The different stages of the Gibbs’ reflective cycle could be
related to the actual clinical scenario taken from the course video.
Description
Here, the nurse was sent to collect or gather information regarding the vital signs of
the patient. The patient had been admitted to the hospital ward post a referral from the GP.
Post the admission of the patient the nurse was appointed for monitoring some of the vital
sign of the patient such as temperature and pulse. Therefore, after checking the vital signs of
the patient such as temperature and pulse were found to be normal. Hence, the nurse left the
patient there and asked his permission for reporting the same to the doctor (Wyder, Bland,
Blythe, Matarasso & Crompton, 2015).
In my opinion , over here the nurse had followed the policy pertaining to informed
practice, as per which the nurse will be providing the health details of the patient to the
doctor based upon further treatment plan will be proceeded. However, I think the nurse