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The Comforting Interaction: Developing a Model of Nurse-Patient Relationship
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In this article we argue that the separate literatures on the nurse-patient interaction and the nurse-patient relationship artificially fragment a unified process, and a model incorporating both interaction and relationship is critically needed. The Comforting Interaction-Relationship Model, in which the nurse-patient interaction is proposed as a means for the nurse and the patient to negotiate and establish a desired therapeutic relationship is presented. Nursing actions are described as thr...
