Relationship-Based Assessment Skills: Therapeutic Rapport

Relationship-Based Assessment Skills: Therapeutic Rapport

In this lecture the words nurse and psychiatric are defined. The role of the psychiatric nurse is reviewed and the process of psychiatric assessment is discussed. The importance of applying theory to practice and assessing people holistically is emphasised. The concepts of boundaries and therapeutic relationships are analysed. The concept of touch and the importance of food and drink in the process of relating are discussed. The concepts of nursing as an art and a science are analysed.

The main concepts explored in this session are:

• The role of the psychiatric nurse
• The process of psychiatric assessment
• Assessing people holistically
• The concepts of boundaries and therapeutic relationships
• Nursing as an art and a science

Patricia Awty is a Nurse Consultant and Educator with extensive hospital and university based experience as a clinician, teacher and lecturer.  She is a qualified general and psychiatric nurse who has a Master of Health Science and a special interest in the psychodynamics of therapeutic relationships and care. Pat is well known as an informed and inspiring nurse teacher and regularly conducts teaching sessions throughout Australia which are invariably highly evaluated.

Speaker name: Pat Awty
Recorded: 21 & 22 June 2010
Listening time: 23 Mins
Conference: Psychiatric Nursing Assessment Skills
Session in Conference: Relationship – based assessment skills part1
State: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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